Common Sense

As posted by Publius:

America isn't ready for a third party because apparently we're not ready for any party. Neither party represents the people - or reflects the struggle that it means to be an American today. It's all a dog and pony show to aggrandize themselves and produce more money for the people that keep them in power. The Americans choose to, as Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense, to suffer the suffer able because it is preferred to making any sort of uncomfortable change. Americans have no imagination and absolutely no clue how to create a healthy republic because they have lost their capacity for understanding a larger idea than their bills and their car and keeping their daughter's boyfriend's penis in his pants. They, quite simply, cannot imagine life being any different than it is - and certainly have no higher aspirations for their country or the world as a whole. They are oblivious to the idea that they are citizens of the world, or the cosmos for that matter.

The election of Barrack Obama by the same people who voted "Yes on 8" to REMOVE the constitutional civil rights of a minority group (using the majority vote) is the finest evidence we have for proving that America understands NOTHING but clever marketing. For clarification, you can dress up the election of the first black president as a step towards civil rights - but it be only a total FARCE because the same voting base voted to REMOVE the civil rights of a minority group on the same ballot. Those people who voted Barrack Obama can cry and chant and sing "we will overcome" all day- but it's because they have a deep emotional connection to commercials and television personalities. They cry because they must. They cry and faun over Barrack Obama because they MUST convince themselves they are apart of "change." They do this because they have been denied "change" and have been denied a revolution in their heart and their country. This is merely the next toke of the cigarette to get them through the day.

They can sing "we will overcome" but it does not stem from a deep and intelligent empathy for the blacks that broke their back growing our tobacco and picking our cotton to sustain the economy of a fledgling America. It is not out of joy for overcoming slavery because slavery HAS NOT BEEN OVERCOME. Those same idiots dress themselves in the blood of children who create their clothing over seas. They are the overseer and the slave driver trying to atone for their sins in some sort of idiotic consumerist-religious experience. They are the leather-necked slave driver in church on Sunday speaking in tongues to Jesus Christ. They are idiots and have lost their way.

We're doomed unless a miracle happens to change the spiritual fiber of this world. Doomed.

But that's o.k. They'll all die someday and come face to face with the hell they had created in their human heart... with only the bittersweet familiarity of death and cosmic unity to greet their temporary and fleeting ignorance. They will be ashamed and return to try again... as we've been doing for a while. "lol, oops, fucked that one up - better give it another cycle."