Two Americas
03-27-2007, 01:21 AM
I come here tonight and my name is on every forum as the last poster.
Maybe it is over. There is definitely change in the air. The administration is going down, it seems. Maybe most people, once they see that, will feel that the crisis has then passed. Bush is gone, all is well, back to our lives and private concerns and hope for the best. It now appears that election theft, the Plame outing, the firing of USAs, the secret email server, the bogus war rationale, the manipulation of the media - are all tied together - all the same scandal, all the same players, all the same game. But sorting through all of that and bringing the criminals to justice is tedious and complicated, and doesn't have much to offer in the way of emotional thrills and chills.
If we were going somewhere, the next phase would be of intense interest. But we aren't going anywhere, we never were. "Getting rid of Bush" is the only place we were going, eliminating the uncomfortable and obvious indicators of our oppression and slavery, polishing off the rough edges, blurring the picture again so we didn't have to look at it and see it in such painful detail. All attempts to broaden the opposition, to make it more meaningful and universal, to engage the millions of people who are left on the sidelines in the modern game of politics, were resisted or ignored. We are proud to be snobs, after all! Getting rid of Bush. Getting rid of the neocons, getting rid of the fundies. That was the goal. Getting all of them out of view, so we can go back to living an illusion - that is what people will now settle for.
Oh, I forgot. There was something else we were doing - raising people's consciousness and converting them to a new spiritual awareness. That can now go forward without any interference from jarring and upsetting political talk that so "harshes our buzz" and prevents us from being in a peaceful place within ourselves. Just keep believing and keep visualizing and band together with like-minded individuals who "get it."
Right wingers are strangely muted or completely silent over the last few days, as I haven't seen in years. Almost every MSM talking head is discussing impeachment tonight on television. Limbaugh did a "fluff" show as though nothing much important was happening.
People on the liberal boards saying they are tired, burned out, etc., or that they were only amusing themselves with talking about politics anyway, or they are confused, fed up and losing interest.
The opposition was all negative right from the start - against Bush, against the war. So Bush will be gone, the right wingers will have been given a smacking and will be retreating for a while to re-group, and the "war" - whatever that is - will drag on and eventually lurch to "an end" - whatever that means. The opposition will start collapsing, since there was never a positive program to replace the negative "against" program. The positive program for most people will be to go back to the rat race and struggle to marginally improve their own personal life, meditate or something -"find what is true for themselves" - and eventually begin to scoff at those who remind them that the country is still in shambles. "Yeah but what can you do? I am busy with my own worries."
Democrats are gaining in power, and scrambling to preserve and restore the system of corporate oligarchy that the right wingers pushed a little too hard and almost broke, and find little ways to make our cells a little more comfortable - or at least convince that they are, and get us to blame ourselves for our misery when they aren't - and get back to business as usual, and I do mean business - big business. Very big business. The police state apparatus, and the war on the poor will continue, but with a more benign face and reassuring voice promoting and defending it. The successful upscale liberals will be happy and will prosper, as will the technically skilled and educated who are useful to their corporate overlords.
One of the farmhands has been going to Michigan Tech and finally got a degree. Hired by Halliburton - his good fortune. $70,000 a year to start and off he goes, probably never to be seen again. "This is the way the game is played and hey you can't argue with success." All is good, and all is well. Everything is working just the way it should, and just get in the game and get your piece of the action. Sure there are problems. There always have been, but what can you do? Meanwhile, get on with your life and face reality.
A few officials will do some jail time, and then emerge as authors and pundits. The public will tire of the spectacle, and the activists will re-focus their energies back to "being the change they want to see" and "making a difference in small ways" and withdrawing from the public fray into insular worlds of reflection and contemplation. The big players will walk - "so the nation can heal and move forward " we will hear, perhaps from the mouth of President Clinton or President Obama. And then "serious reforms" will be promised and cue the upbeat music and endless platitudes.
The crisis has passed. The system worked. Go back to your lives. We promise you that you will have better choices for yourself if you are clever and look out for yourself, and as for those who are left behind? Well it is sad, but what can we do? We just do the best that we can. That is all anyone can ask.
The great transition is about to happen. Everything that has happened over the last few years will soon seem like a bad dream, and the few who notice that nothing much has been changed will be treated as party crashers and bores and out of fashion. The overlords got a little carried away and over-reached and the game was becoming a little too obvious. That could lead to the slaves rebelling. But that is all starting to fade away now.
Our role in facilitating this return to "normal" is easy - just go to sleep. You are tired, aren't you? You can't keep worrying about things all the time - that isn't healthy! You deserve a break, to have things a little easier, a little happier, and little more comfortable.
Sleep well. It will only be for about 25-30 years, if the pattern holds.
Maybe it is over. There is definitely change in the air. The administration is going down, it seems. Maybe most people, once they see that, will feel that the crisis has then passed. Bush is gone, all is well, back to our lives and private concerns and hope for the best. It now appears that election theft, the Plame outing, the firing of USAs, the secret email server, the bogus war rationale, the manipulation of the media - are all tied together - all the same scandal, all the same players, all the same game. But sorting through all of that and bringing the criminals to justice is tedious and complicated, and doesn't have much to offer in the way of emotional thrills and chills.
If we were going somewhere, the next phase would be of intense interest. But we aren't going anywhere, we never were. "Getting rid of Bush" is the only place we were going, eliminating the uncomfortable and obvious indicators of our oppression and slavery, polishing off the rough edges, blurring the picture again so we didn't have to look at it and see it in such painful detail. All attempts to broaden the opposition, to make it more meaningful and universal, to engage the millions of people who are left on the sidelines in the modern game of politics, were resisted or ignored. We are proud to be snobs, after all! Getting rid of Bush. Getting rid of the neocons, getting rid of the fundies. That was the goal. Getting all of them out of view, so we can go back to living an illusion - that is what people will now settle for.
Oh, I forgot. There was something else we were doing - raising people's consciousness and converting them to a new spiritual awareness. That can now go forward without any interference from jarring and upsetting political talk that so "harshes our buzz" and prevents us from being in a peaceful place within ourselves. Just keep believing and keep visualizing and band together with like-minded individuals who "get it."
Right wingers are strangely muted or completely silent over the last few days, as I haven't seen in years. Almost every MSM talking head is discussing impeachment tonight on television. Limbaugh did a "fluff" show as though nothing much important was happening.
People on the liberal boards saying they are tired, burned out, etc., or that they were only amusing themselves with talking about politics anyway, or they are confused, fed up and losing interest.
The opposition was all negative right from the start - against Bush, against the war. So Bush will be gone, the right wingers will have been given a smacking and will be retreating for a while to re-group, and the "war" - whatever that is - will drag on and eventually lurch to "an end" - whatever that means. The opposition will start collapsing, since there was never a positive program to replace the negative "against" program. The positive program for most people will be to go back to the rat race and struggle to marginally improve their own personal life, meditate or something -"find what is true for themselves" - and eventually begin to scoff at those who remind them that the country is still in shambles. "Yeah but what can you do? I am busy with my own worries."
Democrats are gaining in power, and scrambling to preserve and restore the system of corporate oligarchy that the right wingers pushed a little too hard and almost broke, and find little ways to make our cells a little more comfortable - or at least convince that they are, and get us to blame ourselves for our misery when they aren't - and get back to business as usual, and I do mean business - big business. Very big business. The police state apparatus, and the war on the poor will continue, but with a more benign face and reassuring voice promoting and defending it. The successful upscale liberals will be happy and will prosper, as will the technically skilled and educated who are useful to their corporate overlords.
One of the farmhands has been going to Michigan Tech and finally got a degree. Hired by Halliburton - his good fortune. $70,000 a year to start and off he goes, probably never to be seen again. "This is the way the game is played and hey you can't argue with success." All is good, and all is well. Everything is working just the way it should, and just get in the game and get your piece of the action. Sure there are problems. There always have been, but what can you do? Meanwhile, get on with your life and face reality.
A few officials will do some jail time, and then emerge as authors and pundits. The public will tire of the spectacle, and the activists will re-focus their energies back to "being the change they want to see" and "making a difference in small ways" and withdrawing from the public fray into insular worlds of reflection and contemplation. The big players will walk - "so the nation can heal and move forward " we will hear, perhaps from the mouth of President Clinton or President Obama. And then "serious reforms" will be promised and cue the upbeat music and endless platitudes.
The crisis has passed. The system worked. Go back to your lives. We promise you that you will have better choices for yourself if you are clever and look out for yourself, and as for those who are left behind? Well it is sad, but what can we do? We just do the best that we can. That is all anyone can ask.
The great transition is about to happen. Everything that has happened over the last few years will soon seem like a bad dream, and the few who notice that nothing much has been changed will be treated as party crashers and bores and out of fashion. The overlords got a little carried away and over-reached and the game was becoming a little too obvious. That could lead to the slaves rebelling. But that is all starting to fade away now.
Our role in facilitating this return to "normal" is easy - just go to sleep. You are tired, aren't you? You can't keep worrying about things all the time - that isn't healthy! You deserve a break, to have things a little easier, a little happier, and little more comfortable.
Sleep well. It will only be for about 25-30 years, if the pattern holds.