Won't Get Fools Again

well...they're back. listening to the CPAC right now. the complete wall of lies makes me want to barf. but, hey, i've wanted to barf ever since reagan. listening to this cpac crap all i hear is the voice of the conservative white peoples' party (cwpp). we've heard that voice before. it is never pretty. it has destroyed countries in the past and will do so again.

i've just turned them off now. nothing new. just: america is the greatest country ever, anybody can get rich in america if they work 'hard', america fights for freedom, blah blah blah... the most cursory reading of american history put's this nonsense out to pasture (with the rest of the piles).

the important thing at this juncture is to understand that poor and lower middle class white people have been hurt, yet again, by the business men and corporations they put their faith in, and instead of choosing an alternative path, they are going to put these same people that have just ripped them a 'new one' back in control of the congress! this is inevitable because a "host of barriers, disadvantages, and strategies" make it impossible to establish a third party in the u.s. today (see http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Political_Reform/Third_Parties_America.html).

all the american public can do is go around and around from demorepubs (dems) and real repubs over and over again. what this means is that america, in providing no real alternative to corporate sponsored government, is a political failure! our 234 year history has lead to a one party state: the corporate white peoples' party!

that's it in a nutshell! no matter whether you vote repub or dem, you're voting for people backed by big corporations or people from big corporations or people who are heavily invested in big corporations. that's why the corporate deregulation policies started by reagan were continued by clinton and are now continued by obama. and that's why lower middle class white people (not to mention blacks) are permanently out of work that would have paid them a decent enough wage so that their kids could have gotten an education that would allow them to move into the middle middle class. (there isn't enough time to go into the corporate backed tax policies which have gutted the states and essentially destroyed education for all but the upper classes here.)

the one thing i can say with utter assurance is that the country of my youth is gone! this was a country where we understood that we would advance in science and technology and culture in order to push out into the solar system and establish a level of culture impossible to have with the resources of just one world. this idea is essentially dead. we can only hope we survive for a few more decades after the cwpp returns to power.

more...later!