Spreading Manure - not Democracy
Hey Folks,
Ain’t it just ducky what passes for “democracy” in this god-forsaken stinking city on the hill !!!
Our Idiot Boy President and his mental midget retainers don’t give a damn about the Constitution (“Just a damned piece of paper” – G.W. Bush) or their oath to uphold it. Nor do they feel any need to respect the legislative branch of government, ignoring subpoenas. They have the “Supremes” pretty well sewed up with zombie reactionaries in the majority, and they are working to eliminate even Republican federal prosecutors who have a conscience or an understanding of ethics. Yep, Dickey and Dopey are pretty much along the Yellow-Bellied Road to a regal presidency.
And what about the Democrats? They are busy trying to look busy but being careful to initiate only actions that can be sandbagged by Duh-bya. Everything they come up with is analyzed, by even the moronic TV pundits, either as impossible to implement or as too lengthy a process to reach resolution before the Monkey Boy is out of office.
This is no accident. It is part of the plan , the road to electoral success; fuck the people by letting Bush continue his ways, yes; but the Democrats will look so good by comparison come 2008, that we’ll overwhelmingly bring their wimpy asses into the White House and a larger congressional majority. Whereupon the Democrats can ignore the needs of the people just as the Republicans did - just not as blatantly, and with a slightly adjusted list of winners and losers..
Bush is and has been destroying much of what was best about this country in regards to freedom, liberty, rights, citizenship, and community. At the same time he has been ever increasing the ranks of the poor, decreasing the ranks of the middle class, and increasing the income of the rich. And what are the “leading” Democrats talking about? What is the media focusing on? Which candidates are addressing the issues important to the vast numbers of people Bush and his Republican vampires have been screwing to death?
According to the media, Clinton and Obama are “it” for the Dems. One seldom hears about Edwards, and the rest are presented as either hopeless or jokes. So, what are Clinton and Obama talking about? Bullshit !! Obama says that as President he’ll talk to people like Chavez and Castro; Clinton tries to make it sound like Obama said something stupid – something other than he actually said. They take shots back and forth. The media love it and feed it to us endlessly, as if it means something.
To hell with concentrating on the war or health care or the loss of decent-paying jobs or poverty and hunger or the needs of children and the aged or saving pensions or the problem of global warming or the neglect of New Orleans or the broken criminal “justice” system or the need for public transportation or ANY of a MILLION things that directly affect the regular people in this country.
What crap!!! But it IS part of the PLAN, a plan to which both parties pay obeisance and to which the media also bows down. That is, maintaining the essential status quo; that is, the maintenance of the rich on top and everyone else on the bottom.
The world is changing, and the USA no longer has the monopoly it’s enjoyed since W W II. The rest of the world is catching up, and for the fat cats on top to stay fat and get fatter is becoming more of a challenge. Guess who is going to get squeezed in the process?
This is why the political process concentrates on a cat fight over something not really even said, why it goes “off” over Hillary’s inch of middle aged cleavage, why in recent times “crucial” issues like homosexuality, abortion, and evolution have been so strenuously pressed to the fore and covered ad nauseum by the media.
The process is NOT about making a better America or a better Iraq or a better world. It is about keeping the fat cats fat and making them fatter – at everyone else’s expense.
This is the reason for the war. This is the reason for the seeming contradiction of naturally xenophobic and scapegoating Republicans encouraging “illegal" Mexicans to come here and work – to do the jobs that can’t be sent to India and won’t support American families.
This is the reason for the totally bogus attacks on Social Security and the demolition of pensions. This is the reason for school voucher schemes and subsidizing corporations who send their jobs overseas. It’s the reason for ignoring the Kyoto Protocol and threatening Russia with missiles in Europe. It is the priority that keeps us from taking real steps to protect our harbors, the priority that short circuits all the things regular Americans need our government to move on, the priority that overrides OUR issues.
This narrowly defined priority – i.e. keeping the fat cats fat and helping them get fatter – is often paraded as “American interests.” We must do this, or we can’t do that because of “American interests.”
Well, in a way that might be construed as true since the American ruling class are Americans, and everything that gets done IS in their interest; but they are a tiny minority. The vast majority of Americans, and THEIR interests – can (as our snarling Vice President said) go fuck themselves.
That’s our “democracy,” and that’s the shit our children are asked to spread around the world at the cost of their lives.
- Uke Man
Ain’t it just ducky what passes for “democracy” in this god-forsaken stinking city on the hill !!!
Our Idiot Boy President and his mental midget retainers don’t give a damn about the Constitution (“Just a damned piece of paper” – G.W. Bush) or their oath to uphold it. Nor do they feel any need to respect the legislative branch of government, ignoring subpoenas. They have the “Supremes” pretty well sewed up with zombie reactionaries in the majority, and they are working to eliminate even Republican federal prosecutors who have a conscience or an understanding of ethics. Yep, Dickey and Dopey are pretty much along the Yellow-Bellied Road to a regal presidency.
And what about the Democrats? They are busy trying to look busy but being careful to initiate only actions that can be sandbagged by Duh-bya. Everything they come up with is analyzed, by even the moronic TV pundits, either as impossible to implement or as too lengthy a process to reach resolution before the Monkey Boy is out of office.
This is no accident. It is part of the plan , the road to electoral success; fuck the people by letting Bush continue his ways, yes; but the Democrats will look so good by comparison come 2008, that we’ll overwhelmingly bring their wimpy asses into the White House and a larger congressional majority. Whereupon the Democrats can ignore the needs of the people just as the Republicans did - just not as blatantly, and with a slightly adjusted list of winners and losers..
Bush is and has been destroying much of what was best about this country in regards to freedom, liberty, rights, citizenship, and community. At the same time he has been ever increasing the ranks of the poor, decreasing the ranks of the middle class, and increasing the income of the rich. And what are the “leading” Democrats talking about? What is the media focusing on? Which candidates are addressing the issues important to the vast numbers of people Bush and his Republican vampires have been screwing to death?
According to the media, Clinton and Obama are “it” for the Dems. One seldom hears about Edwards, and the rest are presented as either hopeless or jokes. So, what are Clinton and Obama talking about? Bullshit !! Obama says that as President he’ll talk to people like Chavez and Castro; Clinton tries to make it sound like Obama said something stupid – something other than he actually said. They take shots back and forth. The media love it and feed it to us endlessly, as if it means something.
To hell with concentrating on the war or health care or the loss of decent-paying jobs or poverty and hunger or the needs of children and the aged or saving pensions or the problem of global warming or the neglect of New Orleans or the broken criminal “justice” system or the need for public transportation or ANY of a MILLION things that directly affect the regular people in this country.
What crap!!! But it IS part of the PLAN, a plan to which both parties pay obeisance and to which the media also bows down. That is, maintaining the essential status quo; that is, the maintenance of the rich on top and everyone else on the bottom.
The world is changing, and the USA no longer has the monopoly it’s enjoyed since W W II. The rest of the world is catching up, and for the fat cats on top to stay fat and get fatter is becoming more of a challenge. Guess who is going to get squeezed in the process?
This is why the political process concentrates on a cat fight over something not really even said, why it goes “off” over Hillary’s inch of middle aged cleavage, why in recent times “crucial” issues like homosexuality, abortion, and evolution have been so strenuously pressed to the fore and covered ad nauseum by the media.
The process is NOT about making a better America or a better Iraq or a better world. It is about keeping the fat cats fat and making them fatter – at everyone else’s expense.
This is the reason for the war. This is the reason for the seeming contradiction of naturally xenophobic and scapegoating Republicans encouraging “illegal" Mexicans to come here and work – to do the jobs that can’t be sent to India and won’t support American families.
This is the reason for the totally bogus attacks on Social Security and the demolition of pensions. This is the reason for school voucher schemes and subsidizing corporations who send their jobs overseas. It’s the reason for ignoring the Kyoto Protocol and threatening Russia with missiles in Europe. It is the priority that keeps us from taking real steps to protect our harbors, the priority that short circuits all the things regular Americans need our government to move on, the priority that overrides OUR issues.
This narrowly defined priority – i.e. keeping the fat cats fat and helping them get fatter – is often paraded as “American interests.” We must do this, or we can’t do that because of “American interests.”
Well, in a way that might be construed as true since the American ruling class are Americans, and everything that gets done IS in their interest; but they are a tiny minority. The vast majority of Americans, and THEIR interests – can (as our snarling Vice President said) go fuck themselves.
That’s our “democracy,” and that’s the shit our children are asked to spread around the world at the cost of their lives.
- Uke Man
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