It’s that special time of year – that season that happens
every four years in the US – when ordinary citizens thrashed into a state of
hysteria, a near madness brought on by two long years of endless campaigning
and speculation by an audience-hungry mega-media, (“Just look what this dickwad
did! Aren’t you shocked? You didn’t see it? How about if we play it 20 more times??!),
finally lurch into the voting booths to elect our next President.
The scariest part? We
are actually so crazed and strung out that a lot of otherwise sensible, normal
human beings are actually planning on voting for Mitt Romney. Yes folks – people are seriously considering
electing a President who wants to resume the policies of George W Bush – the
guy who brought us the global financial crash and the great Depression of
2008!! Somehow, an attack on the US
embassy in Libya “proves” Obama is incompetent and untrustworthy
- yet 9/11, the worst terrorist attack on American soil, made “W” Bush a
hero? How is that exactly?
The only explanation that makes any sense is that people
have actually lost their minds. We are
actually whipped into such an irrational frenzy that no one is actually considering
how President Romney will be able to stack the Supreme Court – so Citizen’s
United – remember the decision handed us by the Bush Supreme Court which allows
for Corporations and wealthy individuals to dump unlimited funds into campaigns?
- will not only remain the law of the land but no doubt be reinforced with
other anti-Democratic laws both equally heinous and way worse. (Ladies, how about being convicted for murder
after terminating an unwanted pregnancy?
Under Romney/Ryan this is a real scenario.)
As I write this we are hunkered down at home, bracing
ourselves for the juggernaut “Hurricane Sandy” a Category 1 hurricane /winter
storm guaranteed to wreak havoc on NY and Long Island unknown since the
Hurricane of 1938. We are both
stressed and unwell but the impending storm has little to do with this. Neither one of us can sleep at night and I am
coming down with what looks like a case of Shingles.
Obama does NOT approve of the Citizen’s United
decision. If elected to a second term he
would work to replace some of the worst Justices on the court and reverse this
decision so our next election isn’t co-opted and held hostage by billionaire
clowns like Sheldon Adelson and Charles and David Koch.
Because of the Bush tax cuts these wealthiest 1% now have
more money at their disposal than they probably ever had. More money than could ever be spent in
multiple lifetimes. They’re certainly
rich enough to “create” enough jobs to put the entire world back to work. But they haven’t done it. Why?
How much longer do we have to wait?
Are they punishing us for electing a Democratic President? Why should these people have so much power in
the first place? How about bringing
all that money back into circulation through TAXES – you know – so it actually
gets spent here in the US instead of being hoarded in the Cayman Islands??
Why do Americans do this?
Why do we continually elect Presidents who will NOT act in our best
interests – only in the interests of their rich buddies? We vote
for Presidents like “W” Bush – or don’t bother to vote at all - and then when
things get worse and worse we mutter about how we need some kind of bloody
“revolution” to change things – when all we had to do was think about what we
were doing before voting! When you
challenge people on this they come up with ultimate cop-out “oh they’re all
crooks.” “Why bother?” they say which is
code language for “I hate having to actually think or take any kind
responsibility for the world we live in” - as if it’s just a matter of who to
blame. And if they’re “all” crooks why not
vote for the guy who’ll at least get you affordable healthcare and a break on
your taxes (Obama) instead of the guy who wants to privatize everything (Mitt)
and f*ck you 6 ways til Sunday???
How Paul Ryan can run on a platform of fiscal responsibility
is a complete mystery. Ryan has already served
in Congress for THIRTEEN YEARS – in which he okay’d two disastrous wars, two
huge tax cuts, and a prescription drug entitlement that created the bulk of our
current (massive) deficit. At the time,
under “W” Bush’s presidency, Ryan said the spending was needed to stimulate the
economy – then proceeded to blame Obama for the mess he helped create (and
still having the nerve to request $20 million in stimulus funding for his
district.)
The rest of the world is watching in horror. A Romney/Ryan administration will no doubt
mean starting more wars – possible even a disastrous confrontation in Iran –
all in the service of enriching war profiteers and starving our already bled-out
system and using it for currency to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security
– which is what the GOP has wanted all along.
Since FDR first implemented the social safety nets in the 1930’s – since
Lyndon Johnson brought us Medicare - their biggest wet dream is to be rid of
these simple things that have kept so many people from starving and dying in
the street. Because they do not
care. The Koch brothers, the Bushes, the
Romneys – these people will roll up the iron gates and hire security guards
with guns and retreat into their luxurious caves - and as for us – well we can
all go f*ck ourselves. They will drive
over our broken bodies in the street. Because with Medicare replaced by “vouchers” worth
$6,000 per year that’s exactly where most of us will be.
Why do we root for scrappy underdog heroes like Luke
Skywalker, Frodo Baggins, Harry Potter and George Bailey at the movies and then
elect Darth Vader, Sauron, Valdemort and Mr Potter to run everything in our real
lives?? Don’t let it happen this
time! Elect the guy who really did come
up from “nothing”, the man whose had to work all his life, the man who helped
people as a community Organizer, Vote to Re-Elect Barack Obama!!
