Sunday, February 13, 2005
America, America, I Want You Back
I feel like I’m losing my place in American society. We’ve always been a contentious people, but the shallow, crass, flagrant, power-grabbing greed of America’s religion spouting conservatives has reached new and unprecedented heights (or depths if you choose). Of course, power grabbing isn’t a new item on the agenda, we could hardly be human without it, but what seems most new is how stupidly this agenda is embraced by otherwise intelligent and moral people. How can anyone with a brain believe the lies the current administration keeps piling up? That’s the question I can’t resolve. In the face of proven lie after proven lie the current bunch in Washington still commands the allegiance of millions. What amazing rationalization it must take to deny such obvious reality. It brings to mind this quote: "The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies, but would be ashamed to tell big lies." That’s from our favorite fascist, Adolf Hitler. Perhaps, in the long run, humanity deserves what it gets.
What can be more dangerous than a group of deluded, righteous idealists with political power? I wonder what all of those innocent dead Iraqi’s would have to say about it? The God-led manic in the White House and his crypto-fascist followers have brought America to the worst state the country has ever been in, and they’re poised to make a final strike against anyone who opposes them. People are being arrested for wearing the wrong t-shirts at Bush political rallies; photographers are being harassed and arrested for taking pictures of bridges; new electronic voting machines subject to undetectable manipulation and with no paper backup are being forced on voters; billions of dollars are being given back to those who already are rich and billions more are being wasted in Iraq; hundreds, if not thousands of people are being held in illegal detention and often tortured—and for what?
Is this the inevitable result of a system (manipulated capitalism) that rewards the greediest and least moral? Yes, when you add messages directly from God to a man who is never wrong.
What can be more dangerous than a group of deluded, righteous idealists with political power? I wonder what all of those innocent dead Iraqi’s would have to say about it? The God-led manic in the White House and his crypto-fascist followers have brought America to the worst state the country has ever been in, and they’re poised to make a final strike against anyone who opposes them. People are being arrested for wearing the wrong t-shirts at Bush political rallies; photographers are being harassed and arrested for taking pictures of bridges; new electronic voting machines subject to undetectable manipulation and with no paper backup are being forced on voters; billions of dollars are being given back to those who already are rich and billions more are being wasted in Iraq; hundreds, if not thousands of people are being held in illegal detention and often tortured—and for what?
Is this the inevitable result of a system (manipulated capitalism) that rewards the greediest and least moral? Yes, when you add messages directly from God to a man who is never wrong.
