To the "spoilers" crowd: I was right, you're always wrong

WWW--Face the facts: you lost the election for Ralph Nader by voting for an unknown quantity, Barack Obama, a kiss-ass corporate lawyer. He was never going to do the right thing, unless you mean right-wing, meaning in the service of money and power. Ten year olds saw this shit coming, it wasn't hard to miss. No, you fucked up, all of you, because you go for the name brand first rather than looking at someone for what they really are. He's like Lincoln alright, not FDR.

But none of this really matters. The system is going to keep crashing, again and again, dragging your asses firmly down to earth, grounding you whether you like it or not. I'm the kind of person who's going to get a lot of entertainment value out of this, watching smarmy, spoiled assholes suffer for a change. God knows it's going to have been earned.

To my delight, you're going to learn the hard way: what the the social contract means; what a society is for; why we must work civilly through the legal system; that the free market system was always a tottering mess that was poised for eventual extinction; what "dumbshow" means; how "conventional wisdom" tends to be utter bullshit; why civic duty is supposed to be non-negotiable; how greedy and empty you are; how stupid you are; why you suck; how conceited you are; how you have almost no intellect whatsoever; why Johnny can't read; how you don't even know the very short history of your own country; what it takes to get you off your lazy asses.

It goes without saying that the vast majority of so-called conservatives fit this bill, but so do most mainstream Democratic voters. So you hated George W. Bush? Welcome to the club, but that doesn't mean you're not the same kind of slob, the same kind of drooling asshole. Nope, you are the same kind of asshole, quit fooling yourself.

Nader voters didn't spoil anything, it was assholes like you who think you can just pull a switch and everything's fine, fixed. History never, ever works that way, it's an endless struggle between the majority and concentrated power. There are no breaks in this, no respite, it's eternal, hence the term "eternal vigilance" coming from people like Thomas Jefferson and Paine, but not James Madison. Democracy isn't a microwaveable pizza. You spoiled the elections, not us. You should have voted for Ralph Nader, the best deal on-offer in the realm of third parties, since voting for Ron Paul is completely batshit crazy.

Political labels: The Great Shell-Game

WWW--I know that there are many of us in America who are never going to see eye-to-eye. That's expected. That's not what this is about.

Words like "conservative," "liberal," "left," "right," "centrist," "Republican," "Democrat," "anarchist," "communist," "Libertarian," "reactionary," "socialist," "feminist," "pro-life," "pro-choice"--they don't mean anything anymore, especially when you have monolithic corporations lording over our lives.

They and their allies in the press and the media have used such words against the American public for over a century to divide us for the ends of concentrated, run amok wealth.

Why do they do this? Because, at the end of the day, we all want a better society that caters to our basic needs, and not the wants of the big guys, the big money.

I extend my hand out to everyone who wants to make this a more livable and tolerant society where the American people control the direction of this society, not a narrow-group of the selfish and the power-mad.

That's right: traditional conservatives, I am your friend. Republicans who understand this--I am also your friend. Communists too. Feminists, the Hispanic community, Black Americans, Jews, immigrants, the elderly, young voters, and-so-on. Democrats who get this, I am also your friend. The fighting amongst ourselves is beginning to end. Libertarians, and all of the rest--the same applies. We all have the same enemy, and it is Wall Street and globalization.

We owe it to ourselves, and to future generations to work towards a genuine solidarity with each other. We owe it to the world to be a good neighbor, and to stop meddling with the lives of innocent people thousands of miles away. Am I suggesting isolationism as part of our foreign policy? Absolutely. It has to stop. We owe it to the children, and we owe it to the spirit of the truth.

But besides all that, why should the public keep paying for a foreign policy they never asked for and isn't in their best interests monetarily? Any good traditional conservative would agree to this.

The greed and the dog eat dog attitudes must be dropped in this great nation, and the time for the great credo of beating our swords into plowshares has come. The great Populist call is being sounded once again, and it's time for the man in the street and in our rural communities to listen, to have that change-of-heart, and to act accordingly. We can make a better world, it's up to us. Let's roll.