Stuck on Stupid
Supporting Democrats and Republicans
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Albert
Einstein correctly noted that the definition of insanity is “doing the
same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” and
yet the masses of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people
in the United States have been systemically duped into
doing precisely this, as it relates to the Democratic and Republican
parties. This is insane.
The
power brokers of the corporate-owned Democratic and Republican parties
have, together, contrived a system wherein they, and only they,
control the reigns of political power, which translates into economic
power over the lives of everyday people. On the one hand the Democrats
co-opt the rhetoric of “change” and “reform,” while on the other
hand, the Republicans utilize the rhetoric of restraint and so-called
conservatism. Together, these parties keep the people of this
nation trapped in a perpetual cycle of control, powerlessness, and
concomitant insanity.
Change
has incorrectly come to be perceived as somehow automatically
a positive or a negative thing, when in fact, it is not necessarily
either. But this is a deliberately systemically perpetuated misperception
of “change” that keeps the everyday people of this nation swinging back
and forth between the symbiotic Democratic and Republican parties -
who rely upon each other to maintain the corrupt system
- and in so doing, perpetuate their own power at the horrible expense
of the ordinary people.
It
is not that the people of this nation are stupid. They are not.
Rather, they are stuck on stupid because they have been
incessantly programmed and are mired deeply in the systemically maintained
insane cycle of the back and forth pendulum of supporting Democrats
and Republicans in a system that is completely rigged against their
own needs and best interests. Notwithstanding, the
unceasing misleading rhetoric of both the Democrats and Republicans
serve, first and foremost, corporate interests - not the
people’s interests. Thus, what Democrats and Republicans fallaciously
depict as compromise is nothing of the kind. It is their joint
complicity in the maintenance of a corrupt, filthy, unjust, hypocritical
political system - plain and simple.
For
example: To say the reason that the predator drone missile president
Barack Obama, 1)supported the trillion dollar criminal bail out to Wall
Street, 2) bombed Libya, North Africa, 3) signed into law the
NDAA / indefinite detention law (of 2012) that calls for the disappearing
and detaining in the United States of U.S. citizens without charge,
trial, judge, jury, legal defense, etc. in an effort to appease
and compromise with the Republicans, is akin to an admitted, unrepentant
murderer seeking to justify and defend his or her act of murder, by
stating that it was done in an effort to appease and compromise
with other murderers. Such an argument would be correctly viewed as
both absurd and insane. Yet, this is precisely the kind of ridiculous
rationalization that supporters of Barack Obama and the Democrats attempt
to make. Of course, the Republicans are absolutely no better, albeit
they are often more brazen and obvious in their own forms of systemic
insanity.
When
it comes to the Democrats and Republicans, there is no such thing
as the so-called lesser of the evils. That nonsense is nothing more
than a long perpetuated systemic myth designed to keep people perpetually
enslaved to the systemic, corporate-owned Democrats and Republicans.
They are both systemically and treacherously evil.
At
this point and time in the year 2012, it is the stealthy Barack Obama
and the Democrats who, particularly on the national level, act as the
more insidious and thus more effective evil of the systemically
and symbiotically-joined Democrat and Republican parties. Nevertheless,
the Republicans are always waiting in the wings to carry out their treachery
against ordinary everyday people, for that
is the way the system is designed. So what must everyday people
do? We must unequivocally reject both the Democrats and the Republicans
and struggle to collectively bring about real systemic change.
We must understand that “change,” in and of itself,
is utterly meaningless if it is not serious and real systemic
change.
It
is time to break free from repeating “over and over again” the insanity
of supporting either the Democrats or Republicans. It is time to
support the everyday people of this nation and this planet of Mother
Earth! Stop expecting the corporate-stream ‘news’ media to honestly
inform you and tell you the truth. It will not! It exists to serve the
interests of its corporate masters, just as the Democratic and Republican
parties do. Stop confusing “reform” with progress. Re-forming
a rotten, poisonous systemic pie does nothing whatsoever to improve
the pie. It remains a rotten, poisonous systemic pie and it must be
discarded, and an entirely different one created.
We
don’t have to be stuck on stupid. Systemic change will
only be brought about by we, the
everyday ordinary people, not by the systemic, corporate-owned,
opportunist, blood-sucking, Democratic or Republican parties.
Let
us collectively and creatively organize, agitate, educate, and organize
some more! No matter what Democrats or Republicans are installed in
the upcoming national corporate controlled (s)elections of 2012, our task is to stay focused on bringing
about real systemic change, and absolutely nothing less. Nothing
less will suffice for the peoples of this nation and world
who hunger and thirst for social, economic, and political liberation.
Nothing less will do!
Onward, then, my sisters and brothers.
Onward.
BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former
Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political
prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his
civil / political rights case to the United Nations under the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political
organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc., Pinkney
was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour,
formerly known as The MacNeil
/ Lehrer News Hour. For more about Larry Pinkney
see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and
Thinker, by
William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn].
(Click here
to read excerpts from the book.) Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney.
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
Stuck on Stupid Supporting Democrats and Republicans
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