The only thing I’m feeling sure about is that we have passed the point of no return in the downward spiral of what causes great world powers to become storied entries in history books. Unfortunately, since there probably won’t be such things as books in the next decade or so when it will be time to add the American Empire to that of the Greeks and Romans, et al, we’ll have to rely on the Chinese to translate the nuance of our rise and fall correctly in their e讀者, (eReader), version.
Tuesday’s election was neither a bloodbath nor a shellacking. It was orchestrated corporate chaos utilizing the most fundamental traits of human nature, where fear and anger always trump common and acquired sense. The champions of the evil corporate empire, Conservatives who believe, (or not), that giving free ‘ungoverned’ reign to megalith, wealth-worshiping, unprincipled polluters of the environment and the soul, will, in some fairy tale scenario , have a happy ending, are simply too out of touch to engage in intellectual debate. The spineless, across-the aisle liberal team that time after time compromises away legislative meat when push comes to re-election, occupy the same lowly wrung on the food chain of responsible governance. There is no bill passing or repealing solution to the American mess, which, as long as we have most of the big guns, is everybody else’s mess. It’s not that government has lost touch with the people, it’s quite the opposite. We have used our free will to freely reject the singularly most precious gift of our freedom. Nobody votes, and the overwhelming majority of those that do never take the time to find out who or what they’re voting for. One certainly could never garner information from political advertising and candidate histories, debates are issue-less circuses and official publications full of lawyer-speak wherefors and whosoevers are purposely indecipherable. The result of the majority, choosing laziness and indifference, (especially now that the Supreme Court has opened the floodgates of anonymous funding), is multi-umvirate rule by lobbyists and PACs where nothing of importance will ever be proposed, let alone passed, without the significant, shameless fattening of the already bloated corporate bottom line.
Par exemple: Obama is off to India to secure a better trading agreement so that the newly emerging Indian middle class, (from all of those out-sourced jobs), will buy more American products…made in China. And the winner is…
So…now what?
The change I voted for in 2008 was not for less government. It was for a ballsier, less wasteful government that would lead us quickly and decisively away from oil dependency and revitalize our economy through the development of responsible, new technology industries and a commitment to the rebuilding and modernization of our transportation systems and power grid; a government committed to the education of every child to insure rather than hinder our place in the new world order; a government that would dismantle the wasteful networks of insurance and insurance for insurance that is the real demonizing culprit that brokers access to and skyrockets the cost of health care; a government not bent on being a warrior nation while bankrupting its citizens by sapping funding for unwinnable confrontations against unknown enemies; a country where guys who stomp on the heads of their opponents not only can’t get elected, but…go to jail.
Free Keith Olbermann!