lindinh | America, you have become a nation of enablers and apologists for tyranny
and mass murder. You condemn the Nazi and gulag guards of times past
even as you celebrate your own mercenaries and torturers, even as you
explain away, if not outright cheer, the unspeakable crimes committed by
your sons and daughters. You don’t care who you kill, as long as your
soldiers are paid, and your munitions, bomb and tank factories are
humming.
Safely ensconced in academic luna parks, your leading intellectuals lean
slightly right or left, but never enough to rock this blazing gunboat,
lest they sour the cocktail parties or, god forbid, have their tenure
revoked. Mouths stuffed with antipasti, they’re expert at sidestepping
Israel’s prolific crimes, 9/11, Bin Laden’s faux death or the parasitic
Federal Reserve, and as another joke election nears, they’re all gung ho
about candidates who back illegal wars and banking frauds, since each
is supposedly the lesser of two evils.
For the past five presidential elections, winning candidates have won
52.9%, 50.7%, 47.9%, 49.2% and 43% of the popular votes respectively, so
there hasn’t been an overwhelming mandate for any of them, but with the
runner ups from the other major party often close behind, and in 2000,
actually ahead in the popular vote count, the two-party system has
gotten a stranglehold on our public life and pocketbooks. As for our
senators, only two are not Democrat or Republican. An American election,
then, is basically a rigged referendum for this thoroughly corrupt and
murderous system, and simply by voting, you will give it the green light
to go on killing and looting. Every four years, we’re railroaded into
sanctioning endless war and bottomless corruption. If disappointed,
we’re then steered by our brainwashing and dumbing down media to a near
clone of our current rapist.
The Good Old Party spooks the upper and middle classes by threatening,
If you don’t vote for us, the Dems will take your hard-earned cash and
give it to the freeloaders, crackheads and other miscellaneous losers,
while the Democrats, in turn, scare the lower rungs by snarling, If you
don’t vote for us, the Republicans will let your retired, diapered ass
rot under a bridge, on a piece of cardboard, but lordy, lordy, lordy, it is already happening, but let us not sweat the details.
