Both houses are a pox on us all
How can anybody with any sense can take seriously the ravings of the Republican candidate for the lucrative and flashy position of front-man for the oligarchy? He’s a lifelong sleaze and champion of the almighty State. One expects his raddled raving head to poke out of the Alien’s chest.
Election '08: Any way you look at it, we lose.
The “election,” such as it is, hearkens back to 1996, when the rulers couldn’t be bothered to run a credible opponent to a highly vulnerable, overt charlatan of an incumbent, with the manner and sexual tastes of a televangelist, running instead another superannuated “war hero,” as unsightly in person as was his political record of serving Leviathan in the most persistent, and persistently self-serving, manner possible. (And if you’re excited by war-heroes, even authentic ones, as rulers, why not study some history – such as that of this man who won the Iron Cross First Class the hard way in World War I? How’d that work out?)
His rival will win the popularity contest, and frankly should – his appearance is at least not something to frighten naughty children with (and the true terror of the Republican’s face isn’t its age, it’s the overt evil and madness shining through.) Unless Israel attacks Iran, and the US’s rulers treasonously join in. Which will be the end of the election, the US, and quite possibly what we laughingly call civilization. As well as, likely, most of us.
But what’s exasperating is that his opponent is being marketed - seriously - as representing “change.” Yes: a brand shiny new wrapper for the same old maggot-writhing shit we’ve been fed throughout our lifetimes.
Every word attributed to this blatant sock-puppet of the ruling class is a study in demagogery by committee: carefully tested on focus groups wired-up to show what random combinations of words stir their pulses. How else can we account for the constant flow of content-free gibberish exemplified by the book title, The Audacity of Hope? What’s that? The Audacity of Dope, or The Audacity of Rope, would both make as much sense. If not more.
Here’s a little game to play. Have you ever indulged in the simpleminded amusement, at a Chinese restaurant, of having the diners each read their cookie fortunes aloud, inserting at the end of each the words, “between the sheets”? Okay, it’s lame: bear with.
Here’s a little variation you can play with the anointed Democratic sock puppet’s latest outgassing in Berlin. Let’s start with observing how the article’s very title – “Obama promises to ‘remake the world’” – reveals his real main point: asserting US global hegemony as blatantly and arrogantly as George W. did in his disastrous “you’re with us or against us” speech.
And now for fun and extra, if uncomfortable, insight, try inserting the phrase, “at gunpoint” at the end of each and every sentence in the speech. And you’ll see laid bare what he’s really promising.
It’s even less funny than the fortune cookie game. Too bad it’s true, huh?
Not that it’ll make any difference to most people who vote. It’s the same grotesquely arrogant US imperialism by which George Bush has made himself the most hated man on Earth – but with a new, new, new package!
Even if by some bizarre chance the creature quadrennially hired to play President actually enjoys the powers attributed to it, and isn’t merely the puppet hireling of the real rulers (which I believe the evidence frankly indicates) – what difference can it possibly make? Both candidates have already signed on to pretty much the whole Bush-fronted program of destroying liberty at home and destroying the US military, as well as any goodwill the hapless American people still may enjoy, by endless expanding aggression abroad, along with destroying the US and global economy with the hyperinflation needed to pay for it all. Zimbabwe, here we come!
That’s what exasperates me most about my friends who call themselves liberals. I love you as people. As for your political beliefs - well, look again at the name of the blog. Politics befouls everything it touches.
It’s not that you’re no better than conservatives. It’s that you’re no different from them. In a year’s time you’ll all be celebrating Obama™ torture*, Obama™ warrantless wiretapping, Obama™ imprisonment by fiat, Obama™ endless war of occupation in Iraq (he’s given himself the lie on withdrawal as wholeheartedly as he did on FISA, by promising to keep troops there to preserve … whatever: as long as there are invaders’ boots on Iraqi soil, there’ll be war); Obama™ war for UNOCAL in Afghanistan, and of course, Obama™ war on anybody Israel points at. And we can’t omit mega-Obama™ welfare to giant corporations.
By the way, is there any evidence, beyond the supertankers-full of bullshit we get dumped all over us in the name of “political commentary,” that Democrats spew less largesse to their “private” partners in the Corporate State (which in fact have not a whit more to do with free enterprise than the old Mikoyan-i-Gurevich Design Bureau under Stalin did) than Republicans? (Hint: why, no.)
And the liberals will be chanting to waterboard anybody who dares criticize a quantum of it all. Because desperately few if any of the liberals I know, or see and hear in the media, have any principled objection to any of these things. They’re just griped that a Republican is doing them.
And the conservatives’ objection, once the sock-puppet o’ state changes hand from right to left? That what’s been done to us good and hard the last few years, to their vociferous approval, is now being done by a Democrat.
*Hat tip to the invaluable Arthur Silber, who first publicly made the point about Democratic branding of State evil. It’s been festering independently in my mind for some time now; the above’s my take. You can count on my harping on it again.
Tags: democracy, oligarchy, ruling class, sock puppets, US hegemony