Preventing Democracy
It’s been really shocking to see how the major media players and the two, dominant ruling parties work in unison to silence and attempt to eliminate the only two Presidential candidates talking about “change.” Real change.
And the reason, of course, is those groups don’t want change. They’re all doing pretty well with the status quo and don’t want anyone or any new ideas mucking up the recipe.
I really don’t know why I’m shocked, however. I expected this. Would have been more shocked if a decent candidate really emerged from the rubble, but to see it play out, to see how the whole system is manipulated is really quiet amazing.
McCain, the guy that claims he’ll “chase bin Laden to the gates of hell,” taunted Ron Paul recently sarcastically stating “they’d miss him tomorrow night,” when referring to an upcoming debate. Where’s the backlash? The condemnation for such a mean, puerile comment? The man is a first class asshole and gawd help us if he and his hair trigger finger obtain more power.
Mitt Romney, when asked about the need for a third party, offered up perhaps the lamest excuse I’ve ever heard, asking people to take a look at “countries with multiple parties and all the problems they have.” He says the Republican party needs a “big enough tent for all people.” Wow. That’s really an unbelievable statement that completely defies logic.
And then there’s Huckabee. Perhaps the scariest of all of ‘em.
Obama and Clinton? No changes really. Just fewer bombs, fewer deployments and maybe a little help for some poor folks. Otherwise, mark my words. The taxes will keep rolling in and be distributed to the defense contractors just like always. In the words of David Byrne, “same as it ever was.”
Flip through today’s New York Times, a paper I subscribe to, and all you see are the same names. No mention of Ron Paul or of Dennis Kucinich, the only two candidates talking about real change. Former Liberterian Paul is particularly troubling for the GOP, because they can’t stand having anyone preaching peace in their God and blood camp. Worse yet, he wants to eliminate the IRS, our modern day Gestapo that extracts huge sums of money from the citizenry and turns it over the privileged few. The taxes paid by the upper tier are little more than the admission fee.
Ever wondered why there was such a war against the mafia? It’s because the IRS wouldn’t tolerate competition.
Ron Paul was actually booed by GOP supporters during one of the debates (the one he couldn’t be finagled out of) when he mentioned “giving the Iraqi people their country back.”
And in the background, the Times is helping keep the din the war drums noticable by providing a completely one sided report about a few Iranian speedboats (probably dinghies) taunting three U.S. warships conducting war games just off the Iranian coast. Excuse me, but I think the U.S. guvment would have some major problems with some country floating warships off the coast of Santa Cruz or Destin, Florida. Just who the fuck do we think we are?
I’ll tell you “who.” We think we rule the world, and for the most part we do. But let’s be careful to define “we.” We is not you and me. “We” is a small group of extremely powerful and wealthy people that hand pick the candidates they know will do their bidding once in the Oval Office. Once their in the halls of Congress. Every once in a while an oddball that tries to help common folk and keep the peace slips through, but that also serves the purposes of The Powers That Be, because it provides the bogus system with a facade of legitimacy.
The United States government is not a democracy and never has been. It’s a representative republic controlled by the wealthy, powerful few. They’re the ones represented, and their hand picked representatives have no intention and no responsibility to follow the general will of the people. And if you don’t believe me, follow the money trail, I mean, after all, we basically have a defense contractor (Cheney) running the country and directing our Village Idiot.
My friend, Hayduke, calls this system the news-entertainment-media, and he’s right. That’s exactly what it is. Push the hand picked candidates and their seemingly endless stream of meaningless sound bites, power words and drivel, as well as the approved propaganda about the boogeyman du jour. You know. The seemingly endless stream of enemies out there just ready to take over America and “change our way of life.” Keep the people preoccupied with Hollywood non-sense and hope to god they never find a library or do the unthinkable and get a liberal arts education. Shit, people might figure out what’s going on, and then would would they do!
Send your babies to business schools and let ‘em live lives of blissful but profitable ignorance.
Their motto, in the word of Hollywood icon Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Listen to me now and think about it later.”
Well, maybe not. It’s more like “do as we say and don’t think at all.”
Unfortunately for Washington, some of us are thinking. Some of us realize that democracy has nothing to do with what happens in Washington. Democracy is what happens everyday in our communities. In our bioregions. We don’t need CNN, MSNBC or closed meetings (caucuses) to decide how we should live. In fact, to live and to live well, we should eliminate those things and before it’s too late.
Not only is the united States not a democracy, it is not a republic.
Republic: a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law.
Citizens of the united States are no longer the supreme power. Elected officers and representatives are no longer responsible to the electorate and no longer governing according to law. When the Chief Executive can rewrite laws passed by the legislature (through signing statements) even the Chief Executive is no longer bound by law.
The united States are ruled by a corporate oligarchy that has consolidated power in a small group of capitalists, industrialists, war -profiteers and the military, for the purpose of rebuilding the Anglo-American Empire and consolidating Anglo-American control over the rest of the world.
This requires that the people of these united States be quiescent and complaint, by subterfuge, or, if necessary, by force.
Force is being prepared.