If you follow this blog at
all you will know that it has increasingly been occurring less often than
before. I’m sure the quality has been decreasing as well. Frankly, I think this
is because I’ve finally “had it.”
The government of the United
States for all intents and purposes has simply ceased to function. There are three
main reasons for this: (l) the take-over of the world by a few huge
international companies that simply ignore national interests in favor of their
short-term profits, (2) the coming into prominence in the U.S. of what is best
described as the “Tea Party,” a group of mostly know-nothings that do not
believe in government at all, and (3) the irrational racial hatred of our first
Black President. As a result of these three developments our government has
become completely dysfunctional, virtually nothing is being accomplished, and
what now passes for domestic and foreign policy has nothing to do with the
well-being of the citizenry or the nation. In short, what used to be, according
to Lincoln, “Government of the people, by the people, and for the people,” has
now become government of the greedy, by the greedy, and for the greedy.
The greedy have managed to
bring us to this through bribery and their ability to control all elements of
our supposedly “democratic” two party system. The result of this, as you are
doubtless aware, means we have slave wages, few unions, outrageously expensive
health care, lousy education, decaying infrastructure, private prisons, and a
population increasingly living in poverty. All of this while living in “the
greatest country on earth.” If this continues, and the powers that be have
their way, it will not be long before they will privatize water and air. The
disparity between the “haves” and the “have-nots” has never been greater, with
a few families possessing more wealth between them than 90% or more of the rest
of us.
I simply cannot continue just
writing about the idiocy of our current government as I am so disgusted with
what is going on I have basically just lost interest in it. People manage to
get elected that have no business in government, no interest in governing, and
barely enough intelligence to dress themselves, and they represent constituents
who are just as stupid and ill-informed as they are. The fact that we have
people in our Congress who do not believe in evolution, are often religious nut-cases,
do not even believe in science, and seem to worship the worst hate-mongers in
radio and television, does not augur well for our future. In fact, our present
situation, when it comes to global warming, failing infrastructure, coming
generations so deeply in debt they are virtual slaves to their interest
payments, foreign policy based on the colonialism of the past and delusions of
empire we can no longer afford, a failure of leadership at all levels of
government, a media controlled by a mere handful of corporations that only tell
us what they think we should know, a false sense of entitlement and
exceptionalism, and other myths of greatness, we should not have much longer to
survive at all, let alone thrive.
I hate to admit it, but at
long last I think unless something extremely unexpected and dramatic happens
soon we may well be doomed. There seem to be little hints of rebellion here and
there, a teacher strike, a sit-in, a demonstration, an occasional bright spot,
but nothing serious enough as yet to make a difference. I try desperately to
avoid hopelessness but it is becoming more and more difficult.
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