RE: Obama is a war criminal
January 4, 2015 at 11:05 pm
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2015 at 11:11 pm by tjakey.)
(January 2, 2015 at 1:16 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote:(January 2, 2015 at 12:41 pm)tjakey Wrote: We live in a "post-fallen" America, the failure of American democracy being a thing at least 10 years behind us. We now have a throughly militarized police regularly putting down street protests. Civil liberties have been rolled back for many citizens, and more are in the works. Propaganda rules as both "news" and "entertainment". All of us are continuously threatened by the police on one hand and our fellow, armed, citizens on the other. The flaws in the Constitution have been expertly exploited by those in power, and "democracy" and "liberty" are now words without meaning - but most Americans haven't a clue.
We live with the Chinese curse, "May you live to see interesting times."
I agree with this assessment, but I am not quite so bleak about where it will go. I think the post-9/11 state of things is the last gasp of the Baby Boomers, a generation which has, on the whole, failed this country and its people spectacularly and is trying to destroy any semblance of democracy before Father Time snuffs them all out.
I see the Millennial generation being far more aware, both of themselves and of the consequences of bad behavior. That's not to say they're perfect, because they are by no means, but they are vastly more progressive than any generation before, and a generation of progressives is the only hope we have of not degenerating entirely into a theocorporate neo-fascist hellhole.
Being at the tail end of the Baby Boomers ... I agree completely. I'm not sure what happened to the generation that took to the streets to end the war in "Nam, support the civil rights movement, and support the woman's rights movement. Somehow we went from that to being fucktard right wingers who care only about our big screen TVs and the shit they shovel through them into our living rooms. It is kind of embarrassing to look in the mirror and see one of the bad guys.
A good friend of mind, being both an African-American woman and nearly my age, is a veteran of the Civil Right's and Woman's movements. She now works with various environmental groups trying to both protect National Parks and increase the numbers of minority Americans who visit and support our few remaining spaces. One evening during a wide ranging discussion she asked what I thought the answer might be. I think I stunned her a little bit when I said the answer was simple ...
Never, ever vote for the middle aged or old white guy in any election for any office on any level, EVER. Nothing else matters. If the only non-white or non-old guy on the ballot is a Communist who thinks that Aliens are secretly building a base on the back side of the moon, vote for him/her/it. (It isn't likely a “her” would be that bat-shit.) Hell, I'd stay away from young white guys for a few more years, just to make sure.
There is, in my opinion, no group that has proved itself being less deserving of wielding any type of power than old white guys. We run the corporations, churches, military, and government, with every single one of those institutions being about as fucked up as it is humanly possible to make them. Why the fuck people keep voting for that group is one of true mysteries of history.
Oh, and before someone goes off about Obama, remember, he is half-white. Apparetently a half-white guy in the White House just can't resist his evil side.
