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Full Disclosure
At last! Good news!
How’s that, you say. You’re wondering what
universe I refer to after having just seen the
most absurd, disgraceful excuse for a
Presidential debate in the history of the
Republic.
It’s got to be something else, something that
happened that you missed that will lessen the
seeping shame and bilious nausea you feel, the
sense of having been personally defiled by that
dirty, grotesque mud wrestle you can’t unsee, as
you can’t a gross, invasive image generated by a
sick flasher or fatal accident.
But no… In a larger sense—and the only one that
matters—the good news is the grisly thing
itself, the “debate”, the source and cause of
your disgust and revulsion. Understand: this is
not to invalidate the only appropriate response
to the woeful spectacle of two shallow, hollow,
blithering cyphers, mewling and puking on each
other. There could be no other sane response to
that.
The good news is not in what they did or what
they are: the good news is that by their
clownish, degraded Lucha Libre hog-rassle they
have exposed openly, indisputably, the obscene
charade our political system has evolved into: a
stark horror that craftier, more elegant
behavior and smoother, more amiable burlesques,
have kept hidden from the American people for
generations. Forever!
We are a blinded, despised, bamboozled
people. To keep us so is the purpose and intent
of the system that rules us. From its
beginnings, America was a Capitalist racket run
on manipulation and exploitation of its people.
From Shea’s Rebellion to Citizens United it has
jammed one vicious, rank perversion of justice
after another down our throats. Lincoln knew
better—as his letters reveal—than to laud a
government of, by, and for the people.
The job of Presidents, Congress, and the
nomenklatura of the Deep State has been to keep
the great mass of Americans completely oblivious
to the Capitalist Tyranny that owns them. Our
“leaders” are trained to present a wholesome,
ideal image of the nation, using the deep hunger
of the ignorant and powerless to identify with a
heroic, victorious force to bind their loyalty
in the brazen face of their endless betrayal,
feeding them poison exceptionalism instead of
the nurture proper to a civilized state.
While their bought employees in elected offices
composed and sang hymns of deception to the
gullible people, the Capitalist oligarchs and
combines devised and implemented means and
methods to simultaneously steal and sell the
natural bounty of the land that belongs to all
for their gain, to create legal mazes to abuse,
degrade and pauperize labor, and to kill its
every attempt to defend itself with unified
power. Labor history in America is a bitter saga
of brutal repression and violent reaction by
Capitalism and its legal and illegal
military/police gestapos against the lives and
well-being of working people. And Federal
propaganda has schooled workers to bow and be
grateful for it. And most are.
If that were all Capitalism had done, it would
be a civilizational crime as massive as any in
human history but it’s only one part, and a
lesser one, of its dark and devious malignity.
Beyond the crippling damage done to its own, it
has enslaved and brutalized the world’s people
with its raging, insatiable voracity, violated
and destroyed the greater part of wild nature,
and shattered whole countries of simple, peasant
people with its diabolical War Machine. Perhaps
as criminal as anything it has done is to have
cauterized the consciences of Americans to the
point that they view our rape and destruction of
other peoples with indifference.
This is a short list of what the criminally
deceptive dignity and decorum of our
governmental process has covered. This litany of
intentional, cynical evil is what generations of
Presidents vetted and empowered by the
Capitalist oligarchy that owns the parties have
brought us. This is where those poised, genteel
figureheads, from the cornfed, homespun Main
Street lingo of Truman, who atomic bombed Japan,
and Eisenhower, who sold us to the
Military-Industrial Complex and then warned us
about it, to the Oxbridge S’uthrun drawl of
Clinton who oversaw the charnel house of Serbian
race murder and the disease deaths of half a
million Iraqi kids, and the elegant Harvard
glosses and locutions of Obama, who lulled and
soothed us through eight years of unrestrained
mayhem and murder around the world.
So… good news? You goddam betcha! Because this
sick farce, televised to the astonishment and
consternation of any but the most hopeless
morons, has shown by its ugliness, its vacuity,
its sheer, unredeemed stupidity, the naked truth
of the pit of human folly and incompetence into
which American politics has sunk.
That these two contemptible specimens are
standard bearers of parties jousting for our
votes has ripped the decayed masks off the
oligarchy and shown what a barrenly empty, dirty
game American polity is, and how stupid,
cowardly and false is the system and its owners,
who put faith, trust, and money on these sorry,
blowhard Punch and Judy puppets. And if this
pageant of imbecility and buffoonery in its
supreme vulgarity can awaken Americans to their
reality there can be no better news than that.
Without a major revolution in this country—not
minor eruptions in city streets, squares and
shopping malls, which cuts no serious ice and
invites its own defeat, but in the minds and
hearts of Americans—this country cannot stagger
on much longer before chaotic meltdown. What we
still have is far too sick and rotten and
moribund to continue. A new consciousness is the
key to a survivable future.
The blinders are off now. The gruesome thing has
shown what it is. And there are none so blind as
those who will not see.
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