March 22, 2016 5:24 AM

It looks like the circus is back in town

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland resident who created a political action committee named “Trump Has Tiny Hands” has been asked to change the name of the PAC by the Federal Election Commission. Last week, Henry Kraemer, 28, started the Trump Has Tiny Hands PAC when Trump began “to deny he has tiny baby hands.”…. Monday, Kraemer officially changed the name of the PAC to Americans Against Insecure Billionaires with Tiny Hands…. “This morning, the FEC required us to change our name from Trump Has Tiny Hands PAC. Many people suspect that this is the work of Mr. Trump’s campaign - that he used his little raccoon hands to file a complaint against us. Insiders on his campaign tell us we got under his skin and he vindictively tried to silence us,” Kraemer told KATU.

Once upon a time, we carried on the charade that American democracy was an actual thing, that “one man, one vote” meant something. The act of exercising one’s franchise, of going to a polling place and casting a vote, was an important part of the American experience. Or perhaps that’s just my naivete forcing itself to the front of the queue.

It seems this Presidential campaign cycle has seen our political process devolve and degrade into a three-ring circus, unlike anything I’ve seen in my lifetime. Instead of something approximating rational, cogent discussions of policy, we have white supremacists, Right-wing demagogues, and Christian zealots parading around as if theirs is bigger than anyone else’s, believing America to be their personal playground.

Then there are those who’ve embraced the circus- whether in an effort to highlight the absurdity of it all or merely to have some fun at the hands of a certain small-fingered vulgarian. This is why Harry Kraemer is my new hero.

It helps to understand that Portland is a bit…unusual. F’rinstance, the Rose City recently became renowned for power lines being festooned with dildos. We tend to openly embrace the absurd, so Kraemer’s idea is in line with what can and does happen here during a long, dreary, damp winter. Then again, perhaps it really isn’t so absurd at all; perhaps it really IS time we took a stand against insecure billionaires with tiny hands…before one of those tiny hands end up on a Bible taking the Presidential oath of office.

This might just be a case of someone from Portland traveling a path the rest of the country should be…and hopefully will be before long.

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