This is my first blog in quite a while. I hesitated to even try I feel so let down by the people we elected and, in particular, the President I almost killed myself working to get elected. The Democratic Party has always been hard for me to support ever since they sold out on Viet Nam. Their response to our protests was criminal as was their prosecution of the war. Their condemnation of Bush for what he did was weakened by their own history. I became radicalized in the 1960s and as an honorably discharged USMC officer I committed civil disobedience to stop the draft. I was one of those over thirty the young were not supposed to trust but they trusted me and I trusted them. We stuck our necks out together and took life changing risks. We were in love with our country and that made it worth while. Who loves our country now? Not our President or his Party that seems clear. They have betrayed it. We were accused of betraying it because we were willing to sacrifice for what we believed in. I never felt more justified than I do now. That kind of dedication is gone. Read on and I'll say more.
I was 75 in March. I don't know how much longer I have but I hope to hang around for a while.
The country is dying. The planet is dying. Our soul has died. What is left? When the best people you can hope for get elected and then turn to Jello every time the crazies scare them it seems surreal. Hope, change, yes we can... all hollow slogans that have broken our hearts and taken away the very hope we reached out for.
When no one can stand up for what is right then we all are forsaken and used. It is hard to express the despair I feel when I think about the pain and suffering that is coming. Vote? For what? Let's use our energy and resources in a constructive way. Let us find ways to band together to do what a failed government clearly can not and will not do.
Let us begin to stop spending except for things that are necessary and begin to make those things available in ways that help stave off the demise of the planet. Let us stop filling the pockets of the people who bought this government and turned it against us.
We said it back then and I'll say it again:
If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem
The electoral theater and the political theater are the opiate of the masses today. You will not ever stop the decay through something so highly contaminated and integrated into an evil system. If you want to help then do not participate in any way because your participation will only make things worse.
Why can the republicans get everything they want? Do you understand why? I think I do. They have nothing to loose. They hate government because it restricts their greedy accumulation of wealth. So if government fails so what? Use the democrats core beliefs to manipulate them into trying to save a government they despise.
Who created the debt? Why did they do it? They stated it clearly those scoundrels Bush was surrounded by. They wanted to end any form of social program. Will they succeed? Of course and with all the help from the democrats they need.
It doesn't take a weatherman to tell which way the wind is blowing. The stench is overpowering. The choice you have is to work for the good of the country or to perpetuate this evil sham that electoral politics has conned you into. You will only help them hurt us by using your energy in that parody on democracy.
The illusion that voting gives choices is so hollow that it it is laughable. Who gets to be a candidate? Only those from the wealthiest or those proven to be willing to serve them. Open your eyes and see. Then you can choose. Which side are you on?