War and Rumor of War

Ian Welsh tells me I can either be a liberal or a Democrat.

Either/ or, huh? That's a fallacy to me. How about a third option like "none of the above".

Evidence has it Obama is guilty of many war crimes. He's a Company man, stoking the Company war machine. Like him, the Democratic Congress loves the Endless War and is largely bought by the bank$ters, too. Don't give me all that silliness about Hillary. She, and her Big Dog before her, were simply slicker than Obama. Don't forget who brought Larry Summers to the table in the first place. Don't forget who started blowing the financial bubbles in real estate, with the help of Cisneros.

But I voted for that Dog twice, and Al Gore, too, although I think Al Gore is a fraud. But I'd vote for him again, or Hillary, if she ran against a Republican.

Yes, voting for the Democrats is simply putting off the day the Republicans get control of the national $ecurity state again, voting the Democrats in will only allow the fascists to tighten their grip unnoticed by the main$tream.

Why do I want to vote for the Democrats? Over Republicans?

Because the deterioration of society accelerates faster under the Republicans. Because it really is the economy. Because with time under Democratic administrations a greater fraction of the people are able to feed their kids. Because this isn't a perfect world, and although I'd damn sure vote for one if it was out there, I think the $ystem is owned by the Company.

I don't think you can be part of the $ystem if you aren't.

There is a real difference between politicians who know they're evil, rue it, and try to muddle through the best they can, and politicians who are simply ignorant and evil, or intelligently sociopathically evil.

FDR lied us into World War II and brushed aside civil rights. He also helped create jobs that fed a desperate nation, regulated the bank$ters, planted a billion trees as part of the Civilian Conservation Corps, effecting a massive ecological change that likely kept the midwest from becoming the same kind of desert as the middle east and (unbeknownst to him) delaying global warming.

Or maybe he only slowed down the inevitable- the feudalization of American society, the pauperization of a nation, the decay of the environment. Maybe we should just lie down, slash our wrists, and let the crocodilian Republicans devour us.

I think the way to avoid the inevitable is to, you know, avoid it.

Vote Democratic in November. Maybe we'll pithe the big reptiles when they aren't looking.