July 29, 2012

• For My Next Trick, uh........

   I'm just putting this in here as a place-saver. My two or three readers may have noticed it's really been hard for me to post with any frequency.

   In short order I want to say whatever my probs with Obama I have a great many more with the Anti-Obama faction from the right that loves to post in comment sections. Romney may be scary in his own mundane, opportunistic and ungraceful way but sadly many of the people who will provide him with a possibly bigger House majority and possible control of the Senate after early November are much scarier.

   The critics from the left- of whom I am one- have perfectly sensible reasons for feeling betrayed.

   The essential problem is that the Democrats are no longer able to tell a story of what they would do to make the country and the (shudder) world a better place.

   It is fairly obvious at this point that Global Warming is not a hoax and also that starving the middle class with a lack of funding to provide jobs will not stimulate the economy.

   America seems deeply committed to the end game of capitalism in which the engines of capital are content to feed off the flesh of labor that made them possible and then dispassionately discard the husks while searching for the next killing field. That's called suicide. But as the theme song of "MASH" used to posit- perhaps it is painless... for a while to those who have enough insulation to pad themselves till the last moments of a war that cannot be won.

   

  The problem with all of that is that the war can be won.

  
  

   But wrestling the means of putting up a good fight from the current nihilistic framers of the discussions will be most of the battle. Someone will have to take a chance and delineate exactly what is wrong with bad faith-based religions, xenophobia and the encouragement of the consolidation of anything not already corporatized. It may have to be a new political party after the looming disaster that may arrive next November with disenfranchised voters, dispirited Liberals and the general despair this will amplify after it becomes obvious we are continuing to go down the path that leads to nowhere faster.

   

  Single payer healthcare, a foreign policy and a military that are both scaled back to levels closer to the pre-World War eras, a massive government subsidized jobs creation program that drags the USA forcibly into a green era of 21st century technology and anti-trust/anti-monopoly policies that reverse the consolidation of media and banking and break them up to localized entities, the new media companies must only exist with the understanding that as part of a "free press" they must offer free time to electoral politics and take the money completely out of the equation.

  
  

  I actually believe there are many people who would hear all this and take readily to these ideas. Our mass media has been so efficiently hijacked that it might take some time for people to get that there is a future that simply hasn't been televised yet. But there are a lot of talented writers out here who could be ready with some very persuasive scripts.

  
  

   It's time to change the channel from the two sad, compromised ones that are about as informative as the old test patterns that used to show on the screen when regular television programming ended its day and turned into a single note song until the next days programs began hours later.

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  Next time I'll try to weigh in on something sexier than mere survival- I've been seeing bits and pieces of the Olympics- and yes, like most sports televised it represents a circus in lands in which bread may yet become more of an issue.

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