(I wrote this as a comment in Budhy’s essay about forming a left ideology, and decided to write it as an essay.)
An “Ideological Left?” Are you kidding me?
Talking about a “progressive agenda” is like people sitting around talking about what they’d do if they won the lotto, or prisoners talking about what they’re gonna eat as their first meal once they get out of jail.
The world is not left-and-right any more, not one bit.
The whole notion of even calling something “left” is, frankly, kind of silly.
Listen, what we currently have in place is a thoroughly corrupt government, corrupt media, and corrupt corporate system, all of which exist in a conspiratorial circle-jerk where they all help each other out, to continue their consolidation of corrupt power.
There is only one way to get ANYWHERE right now, and that is to eliminate corruption from the system.
I mean, we cannot even TALK about a “progressive agenda” or “right vs left” until these things are addressed and dealt with.
Right now the entire government exists to provide Corporate Welfare and legal protection to a corrupt corporate class. The media is there to do the same, and to propagandize the people into not being aware of any of this, and for the people to blame each other rather than those who are behind all the corruption.
In this battle, politics shouldn’t play a part. Corruption is corruption, thievery is thievery, gangsterism is gangsterism.
All Americans need to realize that they are being SCREWED, and band together to get rid of the screwers so that we can get back to the quaint notions of discussing whether we should have small government, states’ rights, etc. etc. etc.
We are being robbed blind by a ruling class who has hijacked the government itself, and has bought the media.
Listen, one year ago, I had to travel to visit my father, to help him out because he had fallen seriously ill. He is a very intelligent man, an engineer with three graduate degrees, a career Army veteran, and is about as well informed as I am, only on the opposite side of the universe. He is an unrepentant right-winger. And so is his wife, my stepmom. She is ignorant, relatively uneducated, racist, fearful, and superstitious. She listens to Rush like he’s a member of the familiy. They watch only Fox News. They are the die-hard, right wing fundamentalist “Christian” types that represent a significant portion of the electorate, probably in the 25% range.
As I was travelling is when the stock market fell 777 points, and the “bailout” was announced.
Never before in my life, and in a way that I never thought would happen, we were all on the same page. We, for ONCE in our lives, AGREED on what was going on — that we were getting ripped off and SHAFTED.
It was, really, a beautiful moment. We could talk about what was going on and be in agreement, for the first time ever.
Americans all across the country felt the same way. For, oh, about a week or two. Then we all got distracted by the bullshit election (and the election WAS bullshit, seeing as how Obama is just another tool of the same fucking elite rich bastards who committed all these crimes), and we all moved on, and we all thought “oh well there’s really nothing we can do”.
But underneath all of that is STILL a festering realization that we’ve all been shafted. Not the left, not the right, not the moderates, but ALL of us.
And that is what needs to happen, is we all need to get together and realize “okay, wait a minute, lets put our idealogical issues aside for a while and GET RID OF THESE LYING THEIVING MOTHERFUCKERS WHO HAVE TAKEN ALL OUR MONEY and who are LAUGHING THEIR ASSES OFF AT US.”
Which leads me, for one, back to TocqueDeville’s essay on the Guillotine.
I, for one, am for peaceful acts rather than violent ones. Although I do honestly believe that a few brooks-brother-suited corpses hanging from lamposts would have a MONUMENTAL affect on the way these people operate.
How much shit will Americans eat?
That is really the only question worth talking about.
Beyond that, who really gives a shit about progressive agendas? A progressive agenda is never gonna happen as long as pirates are running the show. Talking about it is pure fantasy, it’s masturbation.
I’ve long advocated a new party, one that represents nothing but Common Sense. In fact, I would call it the Common Sense Party. It wouldn’t have anything to do with “left” or “right” or any of the crap that’s entrapped us for generations now, it would be about looking at problems and figuring out how to fix them.
The biggest problem right now is that Corporate Welfare has destroyed this country. Corporate Welfare has led to the corruption we now are experiencing.
Military spending? It’s not “defense”, it’s Corporate Welfare. The money we spend on the “war?” It’s not really spent on a war, it’s Corporate Welfare, i.e. $400 a gallon for gasoline. Who gets that money? Corporations! Marking up the price every step of the way! I mean, think about it.
The money comes from us, goes to the government, and is handed out, sometimes literally, to corporations who then rent PO boxes in the Cayman Islands so they can avoid paying taxes and avoid all the American laws. They build their factories in China so they can avoid all the American laws including those designed to protect the environment, workers, and so they can avoid paying American workers American wages.
Talking about a “progressive agenda” is like people sitting around talking about what they’d do if they won the lotto, or prisoners talking about what they’re gonna eat as their first meal once they get out of jail.
Talking about “revoking their corporate charters” is the same. Fantasy. Ain’t gonna happen. “Sending them to jail” is a fantasy. They own the judges, they own the lawmakers, they own everybody.
So really the only thing worth talking about right now is how do we get out of jail? Let’s come up with a foolproof escape plan, then we can start bickering about the details of our future.
Right now there is no future. There’s only more of the same.