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Have you heard the bizarre story of Alvin Green yet? He’s some guy — literally, just some guy — who won the nomination to be the Democratic candidate for Senator in the state of South Carolina. Green is an unemployed African-American who lives with his father in a run-down bungalow. He’s a former (and very undistinguished) solider, but other than that he doesn’t seem to have done a whole lot of anything with his life.
Even though he displaced a presumed shoo-in incumbent House member in a Senate primary upset victory that could be seen as a true Jacksonian victory of the “common man” against establishment politics, the overwhelming reaction to Mr. Green’s win has been anything but warm. The fact that Green is a little, uh, “slow,” to put it mildly, has sent many leading South Carolina Democrats into a tizzy of outrage and suspicion. Conspiracy theories abound, ranging from charges of broken voting machines to some grand right-wing plot to purposely install the dumbest possible candidate to hurt the Democratic ticket.
Personally, I think his victory just highlights how hypocritical most of us are when it comes to picking political candidates. Almost everyone claims they don’t want a government dominated by the rich and well-connected, but in practice, few people would want to vote for a candidate with absolutely no wealth or status, because that person would be such a loser.
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