An open letter to the politicians

Since politicians regularly visit DailyKos.com, I decided today to write a letter to them, expressing just how bizarre the current political situation is.  For the most part, this diary is a link-fest: don't just read the diary itself, check out the links.

Dear Congressmembers/ Senators/ Appointed Goons/ Etc.:

Keep spending on Iraq, and by all means keep America's troops tied down in Iraq.  This will allow the rest of the world to defy American hegemony all the easier.  Better those troops stay in Iraq, with morale shredding, than they be used to invade Venezuela or Bolivia or some other nation that dares defy the "Washington Consensus."  We know that the US military is the primary force maintaining global allegiance to neoliberal capitalism.

And keep those printing presses going!  At this rate, inflation will destroy what's left of the value of the US Dollar fairly soon, which will force a global economic crisis and bring forth the issue of the incompatibility of capitalist growth with ecosystem integrity faster than any of you can.  And that will be just what we need.

Your strongest defense at this point is a bunch of rhetoric about why you can't stop the war spending.  Since the military-industrial complex controls you, and the public at large doesn't seem to be able to protest effectively, your best friends are the lobbyists who pad your accounts.  Your best friend, today, is money.  Spend it right away!  Its value is likely to shrink soon, and after runaway global warming takes effect in a decade or so, the menu of worthy things to buy will be shrinking fast.

And please continue to talk about the issues in a disingenuous manner.  Maybe if you repeat it enough, people will get the message: our politicians don't lead.  We the people lead, while the political class is off dancing to another tune, played by a class of pipers fattened by thirty-five years of dominance by financial capital.

Keep up the good work.

Yours sincerely

•  tip jar (nmi)

  by Cassiodorus on Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 06:41:56 PM PDT

•  Hey C

  always a pleasure

  by Urizen on Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 06:44:16 PM PDT

  •  Yeah I've been away --

    writing for publication, trying to form a nonprofit...

    by Cassiodorus on Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 07:01:58 PM PDT

•  If we had blogs during Vietnam

  this would have been welcome then.  We did have great underground newspapers though and it would have fit in well there too.

  by don mikulecky on Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 06:46:55 PM PDT

•  75 meters of sea level rise

  will mess up my favorite surf spots.

  Hansen's words today are consistent with your warming link.

  by FishOutofWater on Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 06:50:43 PM PDT

  •  Indeed!

    It's really amazing how they pay so little attention...

    by Cassiodorus on Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 07:02:56 PM PDT

•  Kudos to davidseth on docudharma

  by Cassiodorus on Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 07:21:50 PM PDT

•  My music video answers this

  I made a video that addresses the hypocrisy. Check it out at More Repbulican Scandals.

  Point taken with your post, and point made (I hope) in the video.

  Please Contribute.

  by Ca 48 Steve Young on Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 08:27:12 PM PDT

  •  thanks for reading this diary

    You're my target audience!

    by Cassiodorus on Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 08:40:02 PM PDT