What is happening now, in the current election process, is a peculiar feedback loop of fantasies masquerading as an exchange of information. Or it is a duel of fantasies, staged between the media/candidate conglomerate and the silent audience to this fantastic exploitation. At every turn it is the strategy of the hegemonic power to eliminate the audience/masses as much as possible for the purpose of eliminating them from the feedback loop and replacing them with a bogey term that secretly hides the hegemonic fantasy, or what might also be termed the master fantasy. The duel is transformed into a hegemonic circuit. A rigged house. From this perspective Romney becomes the master candidate. Resembling an especially well-dressed Disney rodent, infinitely plastic and insubstantial like a hologram, his lack of dimension nullifies the very sense and meaning of an election. The people cannot meaningfully vote for hegemony, because they cannot meaningfully vote against it either. The voting machine itself, its gears and circuits and punch tabs, is hegemonic.
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