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Circus Maximus Politicus And That Urpy Feeling, A Rant

by: bobhiggins

Mon Jun 11, 2007 at 10:55:56 AM EDT




Eight faces that I'm thoroughly sick of.


Ten faces that make me vomit, projectile style.



Now, the man on the stand he wants my vote,
He's a-runnin' for office on the ballot note.
He's out there preachin' in front of the steeple,
Tellin' me he loves all kinds-a people.
He's eatin' bagels
He's eatin' pizza
He's eatin' chitlins
He's eatin' bullshit!

Bob Dylan "I Shall Be Free"


I knew this would happen when they started campaigning for the 2008 election five minutes after the 2006 mid terms. I felt it coming, like the feeling I get when I eat a giant sausage sandwich with peppers and onions at midnight, I know that indigestion is in my immediate future.

I'm sick of politics, thoroughly, fed up, to the gills.... Urp!

I know, I know, being sick of politics is like being tired of living, OK so what what what do you do about it? Shut up? Quit bitching? Take up residence in the nearest hermitage? Find a cuckoo's nest and commit to it?

bobhiggins :: Circus Maximus Politicus And That Urpy Feeling, A Rant

I've been reflecting in the last few days about lofty goals, the dreams and visions of changing the world expressed by the alpha personalities parading before us in this increasingly irrelevant, interminable and irritating beauty contest of a presidential election campaign.

I met a person recently whose goal every day is to help people in one remote village get a second meal each day, just that, help someone who normally eats once in every twenty four hours to get an extra tuna sandwich.

There are thousands of such people who arise each day, not thinking about building a nuclear reactor, desalinating the Indian ocean, irrigating a billion acres of desert, creating productive farmland to feed an entire continent, but simply concern themselves with helping Julius Mukembe provide a second meal for himself and his wife and children as well as the families in the other 17 huts in some remote part of nowhere.

A remote part of nowhere, where a scientific breakthrough is a septic system and mass transit is a foot bridge that enables livestock to forage in new pasture land and cuts hours off the daily task of gathering fuel or food.
A remote part of nowhere where a health care program is clean water, where feeding the hungry means sharing your dinner.

I no longer believe that any of the high class whores depicted in the circus pictures above will do anything that will make life easier or better for the common people in this or any other country. They will not solve a single one of the enormous societal challenges that lie like an enormous weight on our public chest and that lie in wait to restrict our children's future.

Whether we talk about war and peace, energy or health care, social security or child mortality I cannot find the face of a savior or even a halfway decent prophet in any ring of this circus.

I know that I can trust all of them to say one thing publicly and the opposite when the cameras amd microphones disappear. I know that everyone shown on the stages above has, and will in the future, sell out the interests of the working people of this country and others to the first corporate lizard with with a handful of campaign cash. I hear their phony pronouncements, so carefully crafted by their handlers and spin doctors and reject almost every word I hear.

I am sick of hearing from everyday people around me that "they're all alike, Republicans, Democrats, it doesn't matter, they're all crooked."

I'm sick of hearing that statement because it's so damn true. The instant that the election returns were counted last fall my Democratic leadership began groveling at the feet of the same corporate interests that put the Bush/Cheney fiasco in office.

They will provide for the future, trust them, "their future," but when the pie is sliced and served we will still be eating cake... Urp!

Bob Higgins
Worldwide Sawdust

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Smug, self-satisfied nonsense. (0.00 / 0)
"They're all alike."

Anyone who has been paying attention can rattle off a dozen reasons why that is completely false. We could start with the War -- every Dem candidate except Biden opposed Supplemental funding. We could add civil liberties -- every Dem candidate wants to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, every Republican candidate endorsed it.


And Social Security (0.00 / 0)
... and 100 other issues.

Just curious, are you cross-posting this at a conservative site? No need, right, since we're all the same?


Ah (0.00 / 0)
but you see, the IS no conservative version of Blue Hampshire.

The whole debate and discussion isn't exactly something they're good at...


[ Parent ]
Here in NH... (4.00 / 1)
civil unions, minimum wage increase. 

For that matter (0.00 / 0)
killing REAL ID.

The Republicans in the state claimed to oppose it, but it didn't get rejected until Dems had a majority.


[ Parent ]
wow- deja vu (4.00 / 1)
it is November 2000- Ralph Nader looks great- principled, environmentalist- man of the working class-screw the party system.

Because after all Gore and Bush are exacltly the same person, right?



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