The Custody Battle for America

Last week's debate proved something startling about this country as it was like watching Maury Povich and Dr. Phil perform a tag-team divorce in which the winner got custody of America. Yes, America, the fat kid on the playground that's been stealing your lunch money but tells you it's for your own good; that little bastard child that's spent all its allowance on guns and yummy oil; that little stinker that's about to be grounded until it can play nice with the other nations again.

This is no debate. This is no tie. This is no competition. This is no American campaign on behalf of the very real human beings that toil in this panicked, neurotic, and jerked-around nation. This watered-down and scandal-scarred campaign is, ultimately, a season replacement for the Iraq War, for that is what we are now watching: the newest reality franchise of TV America.

Here's the trailer for next Fall's newest show...

We are being treated like idiots. With a skydiving dollar, a bleeding economy, a snowballing rollback of civil liberties, and the systematic disenfranchisement of millions of Americans socially and economically, the vulgar absurdity that passes for a "debate" of any kind, makes the idea of Perez Hilton hosting the next debates on E!, with a naked Iraqi man in handcuffs and a black hood doing a tap dance before every commercial break, a very welcome change. God forbid this never-ending, highly romanticized contest was actually about policies, the constitution, or the American people, then we might actually get somewhere--but not too far, because we all know what happens when we speak out of turn (wait for it):

Meanwhile, while your kids are drinking Dylantin out of the water fountain at school, and while sound bites like "bitter" and "Bosnia" are being forced into our ear, here are a few important news items barely, if even, covered by the minstrel show that is now considered mainstream journalism:

•From Democracy Now!, with Amy Goodman

Winter Soldier: US Vets, Active-Duty Soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan Testify About the Horrors of War

•From CNN:

Ron Paul to Bernanke on Business and Government

•From Alternet (article):

How New Energy Order Will Dramatically Change Our Daily Lives

http://www.alternet.org/audits/82476/

I asked the homeless guy for my dollar back.
He told me it was raining babies.

Comments

[Stirner]

Yes, right you are. Happily the internet is still a free forum, but that might change at anytime. I have met more than a few who were so angered by the ridicule and rejection of Ron Paul by a media obsessed with the most trivial of issues and "breaking news" item that they actually decided to support him. At least he has something substantive to present as a political option, and not merely the "He said - she said" of the Obama-Hillary squabble as well as the grinning McCain and his puppet-master Lieberman. Indeed, to say that we might bear some of the blame for our obstreperous and bloody bungling in the Middle East might be heard out. The first time it was mentioned by Paul it was greeted with hooting and the self-righteous snarls of "America's Mayor" (Remember him?). It isn't the empty-headed talking heads which are eviscerating our nation, its the corporate owners of their medicine shows. Turn it off.