For all the egocentrism and exceptionalism ideas that make up the framework of ideologies in this country, we seem to be a very naive species lacking the basic common sense necessary to recall past hoodwinks and bamboozles. We notice the symptoms of the new hoodwink and the bamboozle this time around and are able to somehow strangle the cognitive dissonance and pretend that these are mere hiccups in the tenure of democracy. We witness the same cast of characters revolving through government departments and agencies and they convey to us the same memes as predecessors, and sometimes the new official is the predecessor, and we herald to the world that we have heard a new song or witnessed the dawning of a new age of universal concrescence. We are able to conjure up a platform of ecstasy that this time the systemic malformities that have not worked in our favor in the past will do so this time around. But it never does; for a few maybe, but for the many, no, and the few are the ones with their harpischords and access to the airwaves singing praises to the kingdom. They pull the same stunts, play the same tricks, enact and preserve draconian legislation such as the “state’s secret” policy, ignore the collective will of a people who are sensible enough to realize that there is something within the confines of this institution of government that is not working well for a good number of people but not sensible enough to realize that it is not some faulty part within the machinery of the government but the government itself.

We cannot continue to say that these problems, these dilemmas, these policy initiatives that erode the livelihood of so many, destroy and marginalize people because of their differences, dehumanize us and systemically eradicate our creative impulses, and storm the world committing untold horrors in foreign places, what Martin Luther King once called the greatest “purveyor of violence” is a pro-human institution. And no, these are not the undersides of democracy but rather this is the very nature of democracy, a system if five decide yes and four decide no than that five is able to override the will of the four no matter how their overpowering would be considered a humanitarian abuse in nonpolitical senses. That in itself exposes democracy for what it really is, as Ambrose Bierce once said, “four wolves and a lamb deciding what’s for lunch.” My options and my will are more exercised in the market place than it ever is within the chambers of high government. In the market place I can choose between various products based on my preferences. I can than purchase the product and go home and deal with the consequences of whether that product serves me well or not. What I cannot do in the market place is force the product that I have chosen as a consumer on another consumer; it would be considered a blatant and dastardly thing if I was to go about the market place, like some loose cannon totalitarian shoppper and directing other customers, force feeding them rather, to also choose the product I have selected. The market has terms for conditions in which there is lack of choice such as duolopy, a market period in which there are only two sellers of a product available and that is mostly the reality in our election of presidents, and then there is the monopoly when some one person or corporation has nudged out all competition and controls the entire market of a commodity or good which is basically what democracy amounts to; unbridled mob rule, a gang of ideocrats who have it in their mind that their ideas and policies are relevant and favorable to everyone, even those who oppose them.

It seems to me that this experiment in democracy, although it has run amuck, is one that most would like to continue in spite of all the astrocities that have taken place beneath the cloak of its high heaven sentiments of good will and preserving liberal legacies, etc. We seem to forget with all this focus on whether it is the Republicans or the Democrats fucking things up this time around, that in the utopian vision that some of us have, it wouldn’t matter whether it was stripes or spots in office, they are not there to do the bidding of their respective parties but rather the bidding of the collective will of the people. The masters of our society really did a number on us, what with the entertainment, diversions, wars, economic turmoil, there is always some battle to distract us from what is really going on. The battle is guised under two warring political factions and no one notices the slight of hand that is occuring such as if someone who claims to be my friend shakes my hand and is at the same time pulling the last dollar out of my back pocket or this so-called friend ask to use my bathroom but sprays it with orange agent after usage. That there is any difference between the Democrats and Republicans is a total fraud perpetrated by the masters of society in order to keep us squabbling amongst each other about who gets the most of the toast while they throw a few more of us under the bus. Who gives a damn if the Republicans did not support the new stimulus bill or how compassionate the Democrats are because they overwhelmingly did? Was it just not a few months ago that we were being told the boogey-man of economic mayhem was upon us if we didn’t pass the $700 billion bailout bill?

They argued that with credit frozen and banks unable to lend we have to get them to lend again. Did not the tune change throughout the entire circus? Did not they go from the stance that they would be “buying troubled assets” and then changing the tune once more to “investing in the banks?” You never get the real story from these swindlers and it doesn’t matter who is in office. And one of the glaring discrepancies about this all is that the banks received taxpayer funded loans, meaning that we are the guarantee for the loan as well as our future wages and labor, and with the debts in the trillions of dollars, we will be working beyond death, quite literally, as successive generations will also be burdened, to pay this psychotic waste back. At any time we have received a loan, did we not have to pay it back at interest? If these rogue spacecraft pilots are loaned billions of dollars of every American citizen’s money tell me what should then happen? Those bastards should pay us back at interest. In my personal opinion, they shouldn’t have bean loaned anything in the first place, not even a sack of beans. At the time of the previous bailout fiasco, which I remind you, an overwhelming amount of Americans fiercely opposed, the Federal Reserve’s own reports demonstrated that the banks were lending at normal levels both to customers and between each other. Bet you didn’t know that, did ya?