I Want To Smash A Coffee Urn On The Head Of David Greene

National Public Radio, that place of doing everything in the most stupidly clichéd way, had on the predictable Iowa coffee shop segment on its Morning Edition program just now, and if you don't think that made me feel like kicking David Greene in the pills you don't really know me. 

Of course they had a bunch of idiots on who pushed the greatness of the Iowa Caucuses, of course they lied about what a great thing it was.  Of course they expressed unfounded pride in the superiority of Iowans - you would do a lot better to go to one in Maine, we tend to be rather skeptical about ourselves as being better.  At least that's what we like to think about ourselves. 

I wish that the comedians would mock the idiotic "guys in the coffee shop" bull-shit substitute for what the news is supposed to be doing, the reporting of fact collected and judged by professional reporters.  The substitute for having an overpaid hack like Greene or Inskeep or the other talking heads shove a mic under the nose of either some random ignoramus or some two-bit flack with an interest to push a POV is what makes middle-brow America so friggin' stupid.  

I am going to devote myself to getting rid of the goddamned caucuses which are an anti-democratic abomination that should be relegated to the dead past, never to be revived.  I am going to devote myself to removing the hegemony of Iowa and New Hampshire and, most of all, non-Democrats having any say in who the Democratic presidential candidate is through open primaries and open participation in caucuses, through same-day or even same month party declaration.  The goddamned Greens are doing it again, from what I've heard in my state which retains the goddamned caucuses and same-day party declaration.  

If people want to pressure the friggin' Democratic National Committee in ways that really matter, they should mount a pressure campaign to adopt rules that the results of caucuses will have no impact on the nomination of a presidential or vice presidential candidate - ONLY PRIMARY ELECTIONS BY BALLOT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS A VALID MEANS OF CHOOSING THE NOMINEE.  I've participated in caucuses for more than half a century, they are an abomination, I knew they were an abomination when one I attended had a grand total of eleven caucus goers whereas a primary would certainly have had hundreds of voters participate in my town.  That is especially true if the Democratic Party took control of the nomination from the Republican and other ratfuckers and held a Democrats only primary with paper ballots to be marked by Democrats and sent back through the U.S. Mail, as was done to such brilliant success in Washington State - though last time Washington State had not given up the abomination of holding a caucus when they should have known better than anyone how anti-democratic that is.