As far as oraters go this primary round has left us spoilt. Although if you were unfortunate enough to catch one of Thompson’s before he split you were only likely to appreciate it if you were an insomniac, although Clinton sounds like a poorly programmed android, only less emotional and although Romney’s heavily buttered silk is often nauseating its still been great, if only for Ron Paul and Barack Obama.

The latter gave an astounding victory speech last night, that can be viewed here.

He seems to have set out to convince the world that he really is everything that they want him to be and managed it with ease and flair. The wretched foulness of partisanship was targetted head on and thus, by implication, the Clintons, who’s value-devoid longing to tear their way back into power has left them clutching onto their stranglehold on the party machinery as this increasingly seems to be all that they have left {besides, of course, that immensely healthy dependence upon Latino soft racism towards blacks}.

Instead he proposes an alternative of listening to what even the dreaded right has to say about things and treating them as human beings rather than blood-thirsty demons. That said he states that the “Past seven years” have been “Disastrous” and that the Iraq War “Should never have been authorised and never have been waged.”

This, along with the rest of his talk’s emphasis on big-government solutions to the immense problems that America faces, is likely to raise Conservative heckles, but without resorting to exactly the kind of stale partisanship that Obama wages war against they will find it impossible to attack him for this yet disregard the same tendencies that all three of the Republican candidates have displayed. Where is the difference between Obama wanting to keep a factory open to ensure that Walmart is not the only option left and Romney saying that he will roll up his sleeves and fight for Michigan car-factory jobs?

{Honesty, probably, but on face value it is certainly a struggle to see anything at all dissimilar.}

Obama is taking on perhaps the hardest and most entrenched target of all: not Clinton, not conservatism but cynicism. This corrosive, caustic force has gnawed a hole in the politics on both sides of the Atlantic. It has reached the stage where all are tarred so immediately that somehow the aforementioned Willard Romney has been able to escape with total 180 degree about turn on policy exactly where expedient for his ambitions and having replies to questions radioed into his ear because, after all, politicians are all the same, thus there is no call for outrage.

Nixon lost office, the conservatives gained an attitude which suited them. Their stance was always more of an outlook than philosophy anyway, so that was ample. Watergate was a life-line disguised as a shark for them. A bad experience left the psyche scarred.

It is a curiosity but no surprise that this negative mechanism, a method used by people to protect themselves from being deceived, has now come to aid the actual power-hungry tricksters, shielding the offensiveness of their actions in the grand stereotype that any wishing to use power to help others is simply a liar, who longs for control and nothing else. If this is the assumption made of all in the field of politics then how could the outcome possibly be anything else? They are all liars, after all, all deceivers. There is no difference between Romney and McCain, none between Clinton or Obama. They are all part of the political system, they are all foul.

This is curious in that it connects neo-liberalism and Marxism perfectly: politics its dismissed completely. Any notion of aiding those suffering is dismissed. Anyone suggesting it must be an exploiter who’s will is for power, rather than justice.

Who, besides the true liars, does this aid?

In both nations those that would have the political system damaged as severely as possible, the neo-liberals, the quasi-libertarians, the Guido Fawkeses, the borderline anarcho-capitalists, those that would have the NHS torn down in Britain and in America those who would prevent anything like it ever coming into existence. We can trust no servant of the public {besides the police} to protect us, we can rely upon no promises or pledges from allegedely earnest men to improve the world. No, we must let the plutocrats continue unmolested, let everything remain personal and stamp out any suggestion of collective advancement. Don’t vote {don’t try and reform they system so it would matter if you did}, don’t protest {just complain}, don’t write in {just whinge}, don’t stand {leave that to the liars}, don’t empathise {just get on with your life}, don’t get involved.

Forget politicians, they’re all traitors. Don’t try. Don’t bother.

{Just let the rich get on with it.}

As I have said before, many times, cynicism can ultimately only ever aid the right.

And he’s taking it on head-first. Peddling hope, pushing the positives. Demeaning the curmudgeons, preaching to whoever will listen. Not an inch given to the perpetual nay-sayers, an ear open to the woe but with an eye on its abolition and no heed given to those who argue that it is inevitable. Critiquing the state support given to the causes of suffering, radical moderatism {”Stop giving money to massive corporations overly keen on the down-size?!”}, triangulation tugged from the Clintons like a rug swept from beneath feet and transformed into something fresh and amazing like a lump of deadwood being wittled into a diamond.

No bone thrown to the jaded, no inch given to the dividers, no quarter offered to stereotype enthusiasts, no wailing, no gnashing of teeth, no focus upon the ego {”We…”}, no sight lost of the little people that the Big Picture consists of, no harsh offensives, no scare-mongering, no factional appeals, no theocracy.

Perfection.