Democracy's Not For Dummies: Corner American Imperialism -
Own Goal
09 August 2010By Frank Scott
Under the guise of fighting terrorism a paranoid and
secretive U.S. government has several hundred thousand
employees working with Top Secret clearance. How can
anyone but an idiot expect to keep secrets when
hundreds of thousands of people have access to them?
And with so many top secretly watching one another
watch one another, how did billions of dollars
suddenly vanish from an Iraqi slush fund ?
When facts about the Afghanistan war that should have
been common knowledge had we a truly free media were
finally revealed to the public, the heroic revealer
was arrested while the cowardly concealers charged
that he was endangering our military. These traitorous
jackals clamor for more troops in Afghanistan while
denying jobs here at home where the only stimulus
program sends workers to invade foreign countries for
alleged defense of our “homeland” . This costs
thousands of lives, billions of dollars , makes more
enemies for us and increases the threat of terrorist
attacks .
Our industrial infrastructure is in dangerous
disrepair , our financial infrastructure is propped up
by taxpayers who get nothing but personal debt for
their public investment , millions are unemployed and
descending into poverty, the upper middle class is
being lowered to middle while the middle sinks into
permanent debt . And government spending is criticized
for everything but foreign wars that cost trillions,
profit a small minority and cause deadly loss for the
great majority .
The venal idiots and sanctimonious dolts in charge of
this disaster have enough weapons to destroy the world
as they claim to preserve democracy here - where it
hasn’t existed since the original western settlers
arrived - while creating it in other nations - where
it hasn’t a chance to exist until western military
settlers depart . If we were citizens instead of
merely consumers we might see that we make an insane
asylum look like a center for the pursuit of reason
and morality .
After the supreme court made it even easier to market
politicians , corporate money is flooding the
financial cesspool mind management calls our
democracy. The wealthiest not only indirectly purchase
their political servants but in the further
privatization of government decide to take direct
political power themselves. The billionaire who bought
the mayor’s office in New York has set a trend and now
another billionaire is attempting to purchase the
governor’s office in California . How long before
another billionaire puts a down payment on the
presidency?
Media dutifully reports who has the most campaign
money and is therefore a sure winner when the people -
in their usual minorities - go to the polls and select
either a billionaire or the tool of billionaires.
Calling this a democracy would only make sense to
patients at the world’s busiest mental health crisis
center.
In the midst of what we’re told is an economic
recovery that hasn’t yet reached tens of millions who
don't own banks , the armed menace not only continues
but has more billions shoveled into the Pentagon
psycho ward , with more ominous threats made to Iran
on behalf of Israel, and saber rattling directed at
North Korea, Venezuela and Somalia, among others. It
is imperative for the public to take action that will
turn this monstrous if enfeebled state vehicle around
before it goes over a cliff. But not if we continue to
be divided by political ploys that set minorities
against minorities and prevent identification of the
problems affecting the majority . Those cannot be
solved by ghettoized groups of Americans, but only by
a united democratic nation.
The color coded insurrections we create in foreign
countries that are falsely called democratic
revolutions may be ironically balanced by color coded
red and blue states rising against the government
here. Manipulated by focus groups and polling , voters
are reduced to market research clusters and subjected
to advertising campaigns that sell politicians as so
many consumer goods. But there may be a backlash and
recent actions in Arizona and Missouri are signs of
hope even as they are criticized as misguided over
reactions. Both states attempt to confront real
problems which bring great private profit to owners of
the federal structure but social loss to them. While
their analysis of capitalism may be naive, so is their
opponent’s unquestioning acceptance of immigration and
health care policies that benefit minority capital at
the expense of a majority of the people.
Reducing these problems to the typical good vs evil
political thought paralysis is exactly what rulers
want. It keeps people battling over issues that should
bring them together. Meanwhile, we move closer to
economic and environmental breakdown through more
wars, more mindless fossil fuel consumption , and more
actual and dangerous bigotry towards American muslims
than toward any immigrants, legal or illegal, from
anywhere in the world.
Calling for unity among America’s disunited can only
seem hopeless to those with no real desire for
survival . None of us will be safer and most of us
will be in great danger if the fanatic Israeli lobby
gets a lunatic American government to go along with an
attack on Iran. The suffering we would inflict on
innocent Iranian people might be greater than what we
would experience, initially, but at some point all of
us will feel the deadly results of such an insanely
immoral act. And we will feel it whether we are
straight, gay, single, married, white , black, native
or immigrant. Hopefully we will not need such a
tragedy to bring us to our national senses, but we
could strive towards democracy by thinking in terms of
avoiding such a further calamity by beginning to act
like the most important identity group with the most
common interest; American members of a tragically,
pointlessly, economically divided human race.
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