Saturday, April 09, 2005

Down With Democratic Party USA!

By Rosa Faiz

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  1. Your righteous indignation has you spittin’ mad.  You really can’t get angry with the people who run and ruin your life and mine.

    The government is proving itself to be quite worthless these days.  I guess it was only a matter of time that it became as such.  It is too bad.  Inflation is the real freedom killer.  More worthless money for food, gas and shelter is required just to get by.  Congress keeps increasing their ‘wages’, so they could really care less.  Little do they know that they are more enslaved than anyone.  Their masters know better than to tell the truth to their puppets.  That is bad for business.

    If the 535 members of the US Congress had a lick of sense, they would pants themselves and do a penguin walk from the west side of the Capitol down to the banks of the Potomac.  They should feel that ashamed of themselves for what they have really done to us all.  But they aren’t, and they don’t care.

    Hoover said:  “Throw down your shovels and sit on your asses.”

    Roosevelt said:  “Get off your asses and pick up your shovels.”

    If the people in the dilapidated neighborhoods would heed Roosevelts advice, their neighborhoods would be clean.

    Why is it the responsibility of some schmuck congressman to get people to pick up their own trash?

    What good is government without local control?  Your community needs you, not some ‘elected’ empty suit.

    Keep paying your taxes, sending your children off to war and be happy.  The empire needs slaves, not people who can think.

    Thinking?  We don’t need no stinking thinking.

    Have a nice day in the New America.

    Posted by MDPB from  on  04/10  at  11:29 AM

  2. It is of course your right and I suppose your privilege (if you want to call it that) to keep your focus on the tree and not the forest. However, if you really think that the Senators and the Representatives are some dupes who are ‘fooled’ by their owners, you are equally duped my friend.
    What you say has some elements of the truth in it (hence you do see the tree), but has very little coherence when it comes to explaining the larger, structural picture (hence you are blind to the forest).
    With all due respect,
    Rosa

    Posted by rosa from Not-in-the-US  on  04/10  at  07:01 PM

  3. Thank you for responding.  Of course I’ve been duped.  I’m an American.  The most gullible of the human family on the face of the earth, bar none, Murkans are.  I try to keep my eyes open, but the hypnotic state keeps me asleep. 

    Unicor knows how to extract their pound of flesh.

    When a Congressman visits his congressional district, he wants his constituents (cough, cough), i.e. slaves, to ‘vote’ for him!  He’s got all of the answers for them.  The war on drugs, the war on terror, the whole enchilada are paid for by the hapless, suckered voters.  When they have to work until the middle of May to pay for their tax burden, what else are they except for slaves for forty percent of the year? Today, Americans actually work more than the slaves did while slavery existed down there in Dixieland.  During World War II, German prisoners of war were used to harvest crops in the Midwest. 

    Everybody just keeps rolling along, ignoring all of the signs along the road to hell.

    Propaganda works.  You’re right, though, I’ve been hoodwinked.  How can I see the forest when it’s been clearcut?

    Posted by MDPB from  on  04/10  at  07:55 PM

  4. Dear MDPB, I deeply feel for all you say. Thank you greatly for that link to UNICOR.

    There is, however, no point in giving in to nihilism. That is exactly where the machine wins, and free human soul loses.

    The tables can very easily be turned; first requirements, though, are very physical/material things that create the conditions for the subjectivity to change on a much larger scale. A nation-wide political party is the only thing that can address our social justice needs and demands.

    In the process of creating this party, the national character will change. For one thing, the population forces an expansion of the political spectrum, as opposed to totally allowing it to shrink further.

    Also, in the very process of building a political house for free souls, we will have changed the quality of social expectations that WE dictate as necessary, and shove it down the throats of the legislature.

    As the system denies those demands, as it most definitely will try to do, the limits of the system become increasingly clear in very material and concrete ways (not just in the vague way that most people fathom it). In THAT process, more and more free souls will join the party where they see serious issues addressed seriously. Therefore party building is where to begin a real, material process to revive a more soulful life.

    Respecfully, Rosa

    Posted by rosa from Not-in-the-US  on  04/10  at  08:29 PM

  5. Thank you, Rosa --

    And so, right now, today, before the sun goes down, what concrete steps can I start to take to help build this necessary national party?

    I am a member of the Green GDI working group, but there is SO much liberal baggage in the GP that I have a hard time seeing it become our national vehicle in time.

    I am despairing.  Mike

    Posted by Mike Yossarian from Seattle  on  05/08  at  08:51 AM

  6. Rosa,

    I agree one thousand percent with your assessment of Amerika generally--and the so-called “Left” specifically--and I love your visceral and direct approach to self-expression.

    I share your clarity as a recovering addict. For 37 of 39 years I ingested the Liberal-Democrat’s drugs, always believing the next “high” would be “the one”.

    As I passed through detoxification’s myriad difficulties and dead-ends the fog eventually lifted leaving me with a clear head and discerning mind.

    Of all the disturbing and alarming truths subsequently revealed, I found one standing tall above all others: those who should know better continue to insist there is a functioning democratic system lurking just beneath the “bad apple” and “in need of reform” surface.

    Licking the heels of that surreal brutality is the idea that Clintonian “democracy” was demonstrably “better”, more “humane” and “sane”.

    At least one million dead Iraqi human beings would beg to differ.

    I see no “fix” for this broken-from-day-one system.

    The only “democracy” we-the-people have is we-the-people ourselves:  our sheer numbers in direct actions both aggressive and passive.

    I’m not suggesting giving up the staged-and-managed (though essentially no less dangerous) “protests and demonstrations”. The bi-yearly “antiwar, pro-occupation, support the troops” million-man-model marches sanctioned and permitted by the State.

    As Derrick Jensen says, “We need it all!”.

    But the sustained “real deal"--La Paz style--ain’t gonna hit the streets until the ever-increasing blocks of 25,000--a la GM-jobs-to-China--find they can no longer make just-out-of-reach ends meet with increasingly “Third World” means.

    And what then?

    Rosa has given us a past-future glimpse of “what then”: “Hell is paved with good intentions”.

    May the reality of the far side of Hubbert’s Peak find more communal friends than atomized enemies.

    May the people awaken from “Wacky Jacko”, “Runaway Bride”, and “Deep Throated” slumbers to find their voice.

    I can dream can’t I…

    In sanity and struggle,
    --
    David Emanuel

    Posted by David Emanuel from New York State  on  06/13  at  07:15 PM
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