When Criminals Vote…
by Mickey Z. l Countercurrents.org
Election Day is mental
illness in plain view—unabashed, unfettered lunacy not even trying to
masquerade as sanity. If we woke up, it would take perhaps 3-5 seconds
to recognize this: Obama is a heinous criminal. His Republican rivals
(sic) are heinous criminals.
Then again, the same can be said for the volunteer
soldiers and all those who give the orders; the law enforcement types
and all those who give the orders; the judges; the professional liars
who stock the media ranks; and, of course, the humans that comprise the
power structure of Corporate America.
Since we habitually choose denial instead of
rebellion, our willingness to play along at home by, for example,
analyzing the subtle nuances that differentiate Obama from his Tea Party
haters makes us heinous criminals, too. When things are as bad as they
are now, there's more than enough guilt to go around.
Just about everything aspect of the US and global
culture (e.g. raping the environment, the propaganda machine, avaricious
materialism, insatiable military conquest, sexism, homophobia, racism,
patriarchy, etc.) adds up to death and destruction. Yet we—the species
with the allegedly superior cognitive skills—opt to spend our time
getting worked up over which wing of the corporate party gets more votes
on the first Tuesday in November.
Joe votes Republican. Joann votes Democrat. Nothing changes.
Jane loves Glenn Beck. John adores Jon Stewart. The planet remains in peril.
Joann and John think Obama is the cat's meow. Joe and Jane agree with Newt. Big picture: It makes no difference at all.
Whatever side we choose in these fabricated
conflicts, human society maintains its steady, relentless path toward
mass homicide/suicide. If we'd ever look up from our text screens or
peek out from our voting booths, we might actually catch the final act.
