Fighting over pizza crusts in democracy's dumpster

Like I mentioned before, it’s hard to find fresh vegetables in a dumpster. Odds are a lot better for pizza crusts and chicken bones. You’d be amazed how much meat gets left on the bones in a barrel of KFC. The world’s greatest democracy treated us to a display of exceptionalism the other day. Democracy in action! Talk about dumpster diving. Does anyone actually believe the trajectory of American Exceptionalism is in any way impacted by the Nov. 8 staging of The Greatest Show on Earth? Biden won because he didn’t lose worse. Trump lost even though he wasn’t running for anything. Democracy won because Biden didn’t lose bigger. America’s face to the world will look exactly the same as it did before. And although miscreants like myself fail to see the appeal of “the American way,” it obviously inspires the world. Ukrainians are willingly, even joyfully, sacrificing themselves for the greater glory of American hegemony, on which the Glory of Ukraine is completely dependent. Across Europe, the man in the street is delighted to make sacrifices for Uncle Sam’s “rules-based-order.” That’s where 800 US military bases in foreign lands impose order according to whatever rules Uncle Sam favors at the moment. (Spoiler alert; Uncle Sam’s rules tend to favor Uncle Sam’s posse.) But it’s all hunky-dory, because if you don’t have freedom and democracy, you got nuthin’. And that’s what keeps me going on a bad day in the dumpster. After a few hours a Little Caesars “hot ‘n ready” is neither hot nor ready. But that’s a small price to pay to live in a democracy. At least we have freedom of speech.