It has been very difficult to wade back into the many endlessly repetitive and totally dysfunctional national discourses that dominate the 24/7 info-entertainment news cycle in the U.S. I’ve been preoccupied with personal and family matters for the past month. My TMV postings have greatly diminished from my extensive 2009, 2010 and even early 2011 outputs. In 2012 it’s been no more than a trickle and it becomes more challenging to put even a few coherent paragraphs together.
Considering the overwhelming shallowness, triviality and petty blather that now dominates the MSM and nation’s blogosphere, why bother making my thoughts public so my words can be archived and analyzed in the soon-to-be completed unconstitutional NSA fusion center in Utah? The completely worthless U.S. Media exists to serve our oligarchic rulers. Through perpetual mindless entertainment and the repetition of many lies and fantasies, it exists solely to distract the majority of Americans from the many ugly facts that constitute the continuously degenerating reality of living in the U.S.
For the next 7 months we’ll be entertained by a meaningless Presidential election between two smiling empty suits who are just the chosen candidates (puppets) of the same oligarchic masters running the U.S. We’ll soon have an obscenely expensive and completely fact-free election to decide whether we prefer chocolate or vanilla ice cream but the overall bankrupt national economic, financial, legal and social policies will not change regardless of who is installed in the White House next January. Perhaps we should thank the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling that this enormous charade is being financed by our wealthy oligarchy that will completely own the eventual winner.
I don’t wish to participate in the many senseless national debates where no idea beyond 140 characters can be expressed, discussed or analyzed. Our national discourse in most every subject area is no better than a High School cafeteria brawl where words such as stupid, dumb, idiot, socialist, communist, liberal, moron, Nazi, and a host of racial, sexual, and intellectual obscenities are hurled at people – without much thought of the underlying historical or factual meanings of those monikers. Even those with extensive educational backgrounds, advanced degrees, respectable salaried positions, major wealth holdings and financial assets, and who should ostensibly have greater self-control, are now flaunting their limited vocabularies and lack of creativity as if they were a group of illiterate, incarcerated high school dropouts. I’ve been guilty in prior posts of hurling “imbecile, stupid or ignorant” at various named and unnamed adult citizens and other monikers that question the overall intelligence and competence of various individuals who are part of our ruling elite oligarchy.
Perhaps these gratuitous insults may hurt the thin-skinned and highly-sensitive adults among us, but fortunately they are not generally directed to our children under 18 who are still susceptible to the nasty opinions of various morons, imbeciles and sadists. Or are they? When the nation’s entire public discourse among adults degenerates so far into the muck and sewer, should we not expect our children to mimic, emulate and follow suit among themselves? Perhaps it is no wonder that bullying in our schools has become so rampant and frequent since it is an important part of adult relations. There is little or no respect, understanding, empathy or civility between many groups in our society and that overall attitude now pervades all social spheres and age groups. Hard economic times seem to bring out the worst in human beings and the real “nut-jobs” across the political spectrum are coming out of the shadows to dominate most of our public discourse.
It’s nothing better for our leaders, owners, controllers and rulers to keep all the various ethnic, racial, religious, sexual, age, economic, political, and social groups perpetually at each other’s throats – this ensures that the vast majority of people cannot affix the real blame for the bi-partisan and decades-long epic failure of this Nation and thus direct their justifiable anger upon those who are principally responsible: the thousands of sociopaths and psychopaths among our elite business and political oligarchs who have re-written the rules of law and overall operational rules to favor themselves over the vast majority of citizens in the U.S. and around the globe. Most Americans are up against an unethical, morally corrupt, endlessly greedy, power-hungry, short-term driven, sadistic, manipulative, and lying group of people who care nothing about other human beings, the livability of this planet, and the future of anything but themselves.
These psychopathic parasites care only about skimming off more wealth from others through various complex financial frauds coupled with the buying of political influence and control, and who are willing to use every type of physical force, the spreading of fear and false information, and outright intimidation of their opponents to control most people. Today sociopaths control both of the 2 major U.S. political parties, the Federal Government, many state governments, and most major international and national corporations. They have instituted a system of corrupt crony corporatism though the parasitic control over various large public and private business cartels that dominate most industries including those that control how the majority of people must conduct their lives and how they get their information, entertainment and opinions. This corrupt, despotic, and intentional merger of big business and big government is the essential description of Fascism.
This nation is no longer governed by the Constitution or the rule of law. Instead, we are ruled by the most amoral, greedy, corrupt and grasping members of our society whose only goals are more money and power for them and less for everyone else. We are probably at a point where the current power structure in the U.S. and across the world cannot be changed peacefully.
Back in November 2010, I predicted in a TMV post (which was cited by a few other major national blogs) that Barak Obama would be a one-term President. I reiterate that prediction today. There has been little or no real policy changes from Obama’s predecessors since Ronald Reagan held office through today. In many ways we’ve lived through Bush II’s third term. Sadly a Romney Presidency would be simply a continuation of the same (if not even more sadistically in favor of helping the oligarchy against the rest of humanity) in which our Federal Government serves only the short-term financial interests of the most wealthy individuals and corporations over the best interests of the vast majority of citizens and the long-term best interests of the nation.
Even if Obama is re-elected, he essentially will be an invisible lame-duck President. During the past 3 years in many areas where he could act swiftly and without any Congressional support, he has done nothing. Most importantly, the total lack of any executive investigations and judicial prosecutions of the many obvious and outrageous financial crimes that were committed by hundreds – if not by thousands – of powerful and wealthy sociopaths in business and government that caused the massive 2008 economic collapse, has made him arguably one of the most corrupt and ineffectual Presidents of the past 100 years.
Mr. Obama’s greatest failure and constitutional crime in office was not enforcing the existing laws and regulations against the wealthy and powerful members of our corrupt oligarchy as required by the oath taken by every President. He has simply ignored the American people and U.S. Constitution to curry favor with the nation’s wealthy elites. Through his poor initial executive appointments and overall inaction in the face of a massive national emergency, he has destroyed the rule of law in the U.S. Therefore he is completely unworthy of re-election. Sadly the alternative candidate from the Republican party would not have performed any differently and would be just another pathetic continuation and protector of the status quo if he assumes office in January 2013.
Due to complete partisanship, corruption, gridlock, paralysis and servitude to their largest campaign financiers, nothing has been, can be, or ever will be accomplished in Washington DC towards changing the status quo. The vast majority of Republicans and conservative reactionaries in Congress have only one purpose: to oppose every sensible idea that comes from Americans outside the oligarchy – particularly if those ideas do not serve the best interests of their fascist corporate masters. This complete paralysis and gridlock can be accomplished from both a position of majority or minority control in either or both Houses of Congress. It does not matter who Americans elect as their representatives since the oligarchy will own the controlling number of them after the elections.
Considering how many Americans are congenitally stupid, willfully ignorant, easily distracted and manipulated, and generally disinterested in reality, or some combination of those attributes, the critical mass of people necessary for major political, social and economic changes to occur will be even harder to assemble or organize. Right now, the majority of Americans are so divided on reality, the pertinent facts, and the creation of best solutions, no consensus can be formed among any groups at this time. Most importantly, our electoral process has been rendered completely pointless since the ruling elites have already made the important choices for us, and all viable and meaningful alternative candidates to the status quo are not on the ballot.
The focus of our massive, paranoid, and unconstitutionally-merged national security state consisting of Homeland Security, NSA, FBI, CIA, and even local police agencies (who are now part of several thousand secretive public and private entities) has been expanded from not only monitoring real and imagined foreign enemies to many new imaginary domestic ones – particularly those who question the status quo and ask for any changes from our ruling elites. The hammers and other instrumentalities of control are being prepared to immediately silence and subdue all constitutionally-permitted dissent and protest by U.S. citizens. But what the hell, the Constitution and the rule of law no longer govern the U.S. and its ruling elites.
The only viable and peaceful option for most people who oppose the status quo might be to simply not participate in the upcoming November national elections. There are no rational arguments to give any legitimacy to the current corrupt ruling oligarchy of the U.S. It may be time to de-legitimize the unconstitutional rulers of this Nation by turning our backs on this rigged charade that U.S. elections have become.
Voting for the “lesser of two evils” does not even pass the laugh test when the overall policies remain the same and the overall downward national trajectory continues unabated regardless of who is in office. To justify voting for candidates based on minor differences over the treatment of women, gays, racial minorities and other fetish issues is also laughable. The far more important considerations over the lack of good jobs, un-payable public and private debts, endless wars, national energy and transportation priorities, the precarious state of the global environment, bankrupt global financial and economic policies, the loss of any rule of law, the utter corruption of our political system, and a host of other major issues simply overwhelm these extraneous and petty considerations with the respect to the overall dismal conditions faced by the vast majority of Americans.
Perhaps one could argue some “Machiavellian” option that one could justify voting for the worst of two evils in the realistic hope that the status quo will collapse faster with such leadership. The current state of affairs in government, business, and the overall structures of wealth, power and control in the U.S. and in many other countries around the world will eventually fail and collapse. (You might not take that prediction to the bank, but put it under your mattress.) The sociopaths and psychopaths who are now in power will use every means possible to pretend and extend the status quo as long as possible and will destroy the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the U.S. and around the globe during this inevitable crash. The over-riding question remains whether most of us remain passive observers and victims during this collapse, or will we seize the right moments to act on our consciences and take responsibility for our lives and the lives of future generations of human beings who we hope will be able to inhabit this planet.
Submitted on 4/24/12 by Marc Pascal in Phoenix, Arizona.