The Evil Of Two Lessers
Cutting Through The Convoluted Web Of Deception
By Drant (Blogspot)
Number 77
10-3-4
The Yale Alumni Club had a Reunion last night, and no matta what the
TV says, John Kerry kicked The Idiots *****.
We knew what would happen- we knew that there would be no emergency
last minute 512mb upgrade for Bushs Brain. We saw two Yalies with
lovely suits and overprivileged lives stand and deliver two versions
of the same bilateral horseshit we have been hearing for years,
differing here and there only in their syllabic locution and varying
level of what passes for erudition in a CNN world.
We watched two neatly coiffed rich white guys in makeup, Faces-
fronting for the two party sham, for the giant corporations that
really run this country and increasingly the Planet, as they split
hairs over meaningless merest details in a global ***** swinging
contest.
These are men bought and paid for by the same bosses, brains washed in
the same soap, who follow orders and know full well which side of
their low carb croissants are lavishly buttered, reading from two
sides of the same teleprompter, dancing to the same sickening tune
without the slightest sense of rhythm-- Siamese twins, joined at their
self-interest and in perfect zygotic congruence regarding just about
everything, differing only over the degree of politesse one employs
when aodomizing some defenseless ragheads or choosing which brown or
yellow dudes are next in line to be detonated in the name of Freedom,
Democracy and our Lord Jesus Christ.
The real debate is neither Bush nor Kerry, but the system they
exemplify; it is the decline of true democracy and the rise of the
American "national security statein which people are sent to prison
and the key thrown away and whose leaders commit capital crimes in
faraway places, unhindered these days, terrorism having replaced the
red menace, another fake debate is under way. This is lesser evilism
(John Pilger)
This is where the killing starts -- when debate is emptied of reason
so that the public is subject to a kind of mass media lobotomy and
fundamentally disenfranchised. What is the difference between not
being able to vote and not having anything meaningful to vote for?
(Robert Fisk)
It's true that if John Kerry becomes president, some of the oil
tycoons and Christian fundamentalists in the White House will
changethe real concern is that in the new administration their
policies will continue. That we will have Bushism without Bush.
Those positions of real power - the bankers, the CEOs - are not
vulnerable to the vote (and in any case, they fund both sides). The
U.S. political system has been carefully crafted to ensure that no one
who questions the natural goodness of the
military-industrial-corporate power structure will be allowed through
the portals of power (Arundhati Roy)
While the 2004 ballot is setting up to be one of the most divisive
elections in history, campaign contributors to the candidates are
looking more similar than ever. Presidential Candidate John Kerry has
received increasingly more donations from employees of companies that
have historically made large donations to President George W. Bush's
campaign ( http://www.publicintegrity.org/bop2004/candidate.a
spx?cid=1 ). In fact, Bush and Kerry now share four of the same 10
largest donors this election cycle, all of whom are financial
corporations, according to a study by the Center for Public Integrity
( http://www.publicintegrity.org/bop2004/report.aspx?aid=374&sid=200
).
Regardless of who you plan to vote for in November (if anyone at all),
the assumptions behind ABB stand in the way of building movements that
can bring about political change.
We need to chart a course that looks beyond the election to long-term
efforts that will necessarily have to be independent of -- and
oppositional to -- the Democrats, as well as the Republicans.We can't
do that while shilling for the Democrats, and letting them off the
hook
ABB -- Anybody But Bush -- is one of the most harmful slogans
progressives have put forward in decades.The slogan tells John Kerry
and the Democrats that they don't need to do anything to win our vote.
(Anthony Arnove)
With John Kerry on the ticket, the Democrats have ensured a victory in
November for the small but powerful pro-war special interests. Kerry
is their sleeper, their private Manchurian candidate. They face a
win-win scenario. Even if Kerry wins, the initial euphoria sparked by
a Bush-free White House will eventually be replaced by this reality:
no matter what Kerry and Edwards may have said from the podium in
Boston, for most of the world neither help nor hope is really on the
way (Jeremy Scahill)
So where the hell does that leave We (the Group formerly known as) The
People? Hey, do I have to splain every little thing Lucy ?
It leaves us walking into the voting booth with no real choice, robbed
of our ability to acquit our most fundamental obligation as
co-signatories to the Social Contract- With our BALLotS cut off.
Countertenors trying to sing Don Giovanni. One thing we know is - They
want it this way. They want the status exactly this quo, because this
is the way they make a living, and baby needs shoes.
The Vietnam War proves that John Kerry cant be President.
The issue is not whether or not he was a hero in Vietnam, or got shot
in the *****, or deserved his medals.
The issue is- what did he do AFTER that, and whether anyone would want
a man who has done what Kerry did, to be handed the keys to the car.
Once a War Criminal, then a fearless truth teller, deeply aware and
courageously vocal about his and Americas War Crimes, he has made some
of the most cowardly decisions in recent political history, by
becoming a stooge for the Democratic National Committee, ignoring his
own convictions, and pimping himself for his own gain.
When The Idiot George went All In on the flop, and bluffed Kerry-
(would Kerry have voted for the War had he known what he knows now-)
Kerry had the world in his hands.
He coulda been Ali finally coming off the ropes, and throwing the
perfect right to the mush, and DOWN GOES BUSH.
But no. Kerry stayed stuck in his muddled graceless version of the
Hope-a-Dope.
YES ! He said. I woulda voted for the war, even knowing that you lied
to me and everyone else, even knowing that we are murdering our
children and theirs for no reason, even knowing that we have now
fulfilled Osamas wildest wet dreams, and even knowing that it would
mean squandering our desperately earned money on war and killing,
thereby destroying our schools, hospitals, rivers and streams, and
giving away any spare dollars to the bastards who need it the least.
But hey, he was only following orders.
The Democratic Leadership Council and the Party Bigs told him what to
say, and thats what he did.
So friends, which of the Two Evils will be Lesser in the long run ?
We know one thing, it wont make a damn bitta difference to the Iraqis,
The Afghanis, The Cubans, The Venezuelans, The Palestinians, The
Sudanese, The Haitians, The Poor, The Sick, The Old, or anybody
vaguely brown, black, yellow, gay, lesbian, disadvantaged or anyone
not Rich, White, Straight and more or less Judeo Christian, anybody
who prefers clean water, breathable air, food not made from petro
chemicals, or anyone who likes fish that dont glow in the dark.
Those guys are all gonna get screwed either way. I hear ya, all you
Pragmatists. You dont have to yell. We gots ta get ridda Bush, and
then we go after Kerry. Thats a load of garbage. You elect Evil, you
get Evil. Kerry dissed every Democrat who even smelled anti war in
Boston, and he gets big bucks from MONSANTO, for shits sake. But OK-
OK OK.
I'll make you a deal.
If we vote for Kerry, if we do like you say and live in the (give me a
break Groucho) Real World, and we hold our noses, and vote for the
worlds most famous Anyone-
We take off our pants and do it-
You guys have to promise not to fall back asleep on Nov 3. If you
swear on Harry Truman's grave to kick some *****, and not heave a sigh
of relief that you got Anyone elected and devolve into terminal
snooze, and if you promise that you won't let The Democratic Party
think that we support their indictable incompetence and corrupt
cooption, and if you put it in writing that you know that its the
whole system that has to change, and that Kerry and Bush are
irrelevant
Then I promise not to trash Kerry any more, and not to tell everybody
what a spineless putz he is, and give you four weeks of grace.
Deal ?
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