All of us are potentially
endangered by those driven to violent acts called hate crimes when committed by
individuals, but social acts of
hatred and depravity are much greater threats and exclude none, no matter where
we live or what moral, spiritual or market values we entertain.
Still reeling from recent
bloody terrorist attacks in societies in which most people were previously
shielded from retaliation for the horrendous violence they performed on
foreigners, the world faces an even greater threat from an empire falling from
global domination while its minority controllers manipulate their people into
accepting behaviors which would call for clinical isolation or solitary prison
confinement if practiced by an individual. The continued forcing of more citizens
into an alleged asylum of near dementia endangers far more than what some of us call
“our” democracy.
This manic state in which a
minority believe themselves controllers of their nation’s material life has
existed since America’s electoral origins, but we have always been under the
domination of the wealthiest minority in the country and the national democracy
thought to be “ours” by so many has never included a majority of our people. Even
the most rudimentary understanding of arithmetic - let alone history – reveals this fact without necessity
for a degree in mathematics. In fact, any schmuck with a calculator can do the
math.
There has never been a presidential
election in the history of the USA in which a majority of the electorate chose
the winning representative of minority capital. And most recently, while
millions held their noses to cover the stench of voting for the despicable or
the deplorable lesser evil offerings, far more voted for neither. 231 million Americans
are deemed part of the electorate, which means being 18 and older and with
enough mental capacity to select burgers, pizza, guns, tacos, pet food or
political candidates at the market. If we can afford them. Of that number, more
than 165 million chose neither the republicrat nor the demublican. That’s far
more than double those exercising the alleged power of the majority and voting,
as usual, in the minority.
Our alleged political democracy
is even less so than our economy, which is really a dictatorship of a tiny
minority. In fact, it’s even worse since all of us are forced into the economy
and cannot choose to opt out, like voters, while its control falls to an even
smaller cabal than the one running the political system. They are part of the
same anti-democratic minority that dominates politics, but there is a bit more
room for small entrepreneurs to get a foot in the door of economics than is
possible in politics. There are very few gourmet-taco-street vendor political
parties and those radical minorities choosing to contest for the presidency and
national offices are given as much chance by the system as a mom and pop store
has going up against Amazon or Wal-Mart.
The breakdown of the political
economic system has been in process for hundreds of years, decades, or the past
few months, depending on the consciousness and vocabulary of the critic, and has
become so much more serious that minority ownership, and thus a major part of
the manipulated-by-media public, is reduced to wondering which boogie man –
Putin? Trump? Napoleon? – is to be blamed for the state of collapse. Thus the
frenzy to impeach the rich, arrogant clod who got to the white house despite
established power’s desire not to have him there. They first got rid of the
potentially democratic menace of Bernie Sanders but were not equal to the task
of dumping an even greater threat from one of their own whose arrogant and
ignorant honesty strips the cosmetic façade from the ugliness of so much
reality. The social disease revealed is too much for those who must label him a
pathological liar because they cannot, refuse to, or are incapable of facing
reality. This egotistical fool may well be the most honest resident we’ve ever
had at the public housing we call the white house and that honesty is partly
why established power views him as danger because he neither minces capital’s
words nor even tries to cover up its horror with the usual political double
talk that calls bloody murder peace and blatant dishonesty the truth.
Trump’s victory is making a
mockery of the fiction of American leadership in morality, which serves as
euphemistic foundation for the empire’s bloody horrors of mass murder and
national destruction performed while calling itself global director of ethical
culture and insisting the rest of the world follow its immoral lead. And
getting even the previously thoughtful among its home population buying into
the most inane explanations for why their world – the one called “our”
democracy – is in a state of near collapse. It supposedly has everything to do
with foreign intervention in “our” multi billion-dollar democratic process. You
know, the one that reduces half a million citizens to living in the street
while we moan about Trump’s sexism, or reduces 20% of our children to lives of
poverty while we visit therapists to discuss our depression over Trump’s
xenophobia, or stresses out a population that can afford to go into debt for
luxury goods while most americans are in debt in order to survive. You know,
that massive dysfunctional family that worships weapons, cosmetics and pets
while nearly half its population is low income or poor? The one that’s saving
refugees escaping wars we organize, finance, start, and perpetuate? It’s as
though the people on the Titanic were at each other’s throats to get a new
captain for the sinking ship. Maybe an African American transsexual Jew could
keep it afloat? If a savior captain isn’t available, maybe some toilets shared
by the crew and the paying guests will do the trick? One thing’s for sure: once
we get rid of the Russians, the Koreans, the Iranians, the Palestinians, the
Chinese, and much of South America and especially this captain, the boat will
rise to the heavens and everything will be just fine.
America has become an even
dumber reality show than the one that helped put this president in charge of the
circus. Further comic relief from TV and cartoonist clowns won’t help. We need
a transformation of our political economy that starts from the roots of the
problem. They have to do with our origins, our history and our behavior, not
those of particular CEOs of capital’s national corporation, and very little if
anything to do with any foreign nation. If we’re even mildly serious about a threat
being marketed as Climate Change, we’d better stop listening to the people
responsible for it who offer toothless reforms like the Paris Accords, and work
for the radical and revolutionary political and economic change we need to
solve not only that long range problem, but far more short term ones that
threaten us right now.
