by Don Nash, Unknown News
Aug. 31, 2004
My fellow Americans, are you feeling frustrated? Are you feeling afraid? Are you feeling like our current president has really got to go but, the only other choice doesn’t exactly fill you with confidence? Are you feeling on edge?
Are you feeling about six lanes deep in a freeway traffic jam that is going nowhere? Are you feeling on the verge of a complete collapse? Is the desire to go smooth off and nut up in the middle of the mall is almost overpowering?
Well, you can take some comfort in the fact that you are not alone. Things could and probably should be far worse than they are at present. Granted, that is small comfort but, one has to take the comfort where it is found.
Barring some astrological cataclysm that can in no measure be prevented or warned about, the sun will rise tomorrow. George Bush will still be our nation’s president. John Kerry will still be playing the “veteran” candidate and wanting to be the next president so badly he salivates like Pavlov’s politician upon hearing a dinner bell. And come November 3, one of the two political offerings will be our next president.
Realistically, there is not much difference between Bush and Kerry. Bush is a simplistic criminal and prick. Kerry is a condescending prick and a huge hypocrite. So America will not be much different, no matter who is left standing when all of the political smoke and carnage are over.
American soldiers will still be in Iraq and being killed by the ‘insurgent’ Iraqis that only want for the Americans to go back to America. Israel and Palestine will still be lip-locked together in a bizarre tango of mutual death and hatred. This will further incense the Arab people, as American foreign policy will continue to give Israel the complicit nod and a wink. No tangible peace process will be forthcoming, so it is a drawn game. There is no sense in beating the obvious to death:
Things are not going to change much.
I elucidate the glaringly obvious only to make the point that a vast segment of the American population is going to be bitterly disappointed with whomever gets elected to our highest office.
If Bush is the winner, there are a number of Republicans who, deep down, will have a gnawing dread that maybe they were dead wrong, but they will never admit it. Deep down they fear George Bush and what he represents and how he runs our government. If Bush is the winner, the Democrats are still going to be playing the role of victim and cursing to the depths of hell anyone that doesn’t see politics as they see politics. Not much change there.
And if Kerry wins, government will continue, status quo. Kerry harbors no plans to pull our troops out of Iraq. Kerry harbors no peace initiatives for the mess between Israel and Palestine. Kerry is staunchly pro-Israel, so -- not much change there. The Democrats are going to be deeply disappointed because Kerry is as much in bed with corporate interests as is George Bush. Kerry is simply the bigger hypocrite of the two.
The rank and file Democrats will see no change in how our government sucks up and prostitutes itself to, big business. We should ask the big wheel Democrats who exactly it was that financed the plush parties that they attended, by invitation only, at the Democratic Convention. Did the rank and file Democrats get into these parties? No freakin’ way.
All politicians love money and all of them to a man/woman are on bended knee with palm outstretched and mouths agape like baby birds waiting for the parent birds to show up with the beak full of squiggly worms and bugs.
I really don’t care how much the Democrats want to scream and yell and stamp their webbed little feet. They’re supposed to be the opposition while Republicans are in power, but Democrats have not shown America much at all. Not much “opposition,” not much of anything else.
And then there is Ralph Nader. Ewwwww, there’s a choice.
This lack of choice is one source for the frustration that Americans are feeling and are unable to precisely put their finger on. The political parties offer America really lousy choices. Bush or Kerry? That is our choice?
World events are almost at the point of being completely out of control, and America gets to choose between Bush or Kerry. The prospect isn’t very satisfying and it isn’t satisfactory. America deserves better and America’s children and grandchildren deserve better.
Maybe we could get Barack Obama to run for president, right now. He looks promising ... but by the time the Democrats have him ready to run for president, they will have ruined him with their corrupt process.
Where is hope?
Hope is to be found in the small things. My fellow Americans, don’t get caught up in the insanity that is today’s elective process. By all means, participate in the political process, but don’t let it eat you up. Vote and vote early and often. Vote your conscience and let it go. The election process will do what it does, and the results are out of your control.
The Republicans suck and the Democrats suck and between the two parties, they both suck large. Spend a little extra time with your children if you have children. Spend a little time with your neighbor and ask if they are well. Do one kind act. Just one kind act a day can do wondrous things.
Celebrate your Constitutional rights. Make a sign that is anti-war and hang it on a fence that surrounds a freeway. (This is known as freeway blogging, and it’s a fun way to exercise your fundamental rights and freedoms.)
Buy one extra toy for Christmas and give it to the Sub-for-Santa. Buy an extra can of beans when you buy your groceries and give it to a food bank.
Believe absolutely none of the political rhetoric and propaganda that comes from the Bush administration or the Kerry administration if it happens. Politicians are liars and they perpetuate lies.
Turn off your radio for one day, and don’t listen to Pills Limbaugh. Turn off your television and don’t listen to Bill O’Really or Hannity or P. Puffy Colmes or Dr. Laura or Dr. Phil or Tim Mr. NBC. Don’t sit and stew about what you can’t control.
The holidays will be coming up shortly, so enjoy them. Enjoy the Thanksgiving feast and Christmas festivities and New Years and hangovers and ... well, not the hangovers. Downsize your Christmas and work from a Christmas budget ... be realistic and enjoy the holidays, family, and friends.
If you happen to be of the praying persuasion, pray that we the people can find us a leader -- a real leader who is honest and straightforward. I will readily admit that we need a savior, and I don’t mean Jerky Falwell or Nuts Robertson or Jebus-is-going-to-melt-your-eyes LaHaye.
Americans need to be brought from the land of political illusion and deceit. We need a leader who is smart enough and straight enough with the world to not be starting preemptive wars.
Mostly, just remember that all that we have for certain is each other. Struggles to return sanity to our world can take a very long time. So once in a while, take some time out and recharge yourself. Marvel at the only real moral authority that is left on our planet, and that authority is Grand Ayat Allah Ali al-Sistani. What al-Sistani did in Najaf was amazing.
There is a better tomorrow coming but, sometimes it is hard to see.
© 2004, by the author.
What do you think?
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Realistically, there is not much difference between Bush and Kerry.
Bush is a simplistic criminal and prick. Kerry is a condescending prick and a huge hypocrite.
So America will not be much different, no matter who is left standing when all of the political smoke and carnage are over.
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Where is hope?
Hope is to be found in the small things.
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Don’t get caught up in the insanity that is today’s elective process.
By all means, participate in the political process, but don’t let it eat you up.
Vote and vote early and often.
Vote your conscience and let it go.
The election process will do what it does, and the results are out of your control.
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