A
rotten, poisonous, stinking pie is far worse than no pie at all.
Yet, this is precisely what the corporate Democratic Party and corporate
�news� media have repeatedly forced down the throats of the �American�
people, cloaked in the deceptive rhetoric of �change� and
�reform.�
The
Democratic Party foxes and the Republican Party wolves
are not in the least bit interested in breaking their insidious
feeding frenzy with the corporate Wall Street / military
industrial complex. However, at this stage in history, it is the
Democratic Party foxes who have taken deception, authoritarianism,
wars abroad, a de facto police state at home, and constant subterfuge
to the lowest depths of political cynicism and manipulation
yet to be experienced by this nation.
The
authoritarian and discriminatory, so-called health care �reform�
of Barack Obama and his confederate Democratic Party foxes is
a horrible sham. It is a big, fat financial gift to the
corporate elite, which is exactly why back in August
of 2009, Barack Obama cut a back
room deal with the lobbyists of the pharmaceutical, insurance,
and hospital industry�s to kill the �public option�; despite
the fact that the overwhelming majority of people supported this
option. In relative short order the hurting peoples of this nation
may come to realize that they have once again blind-sided
and economically pimped by the systemic politicians and their scurvy
media allies.
It
is apparently not enough that everyday Black, Brown, Red, White,
and Yellow people in this nation, as well as people in other nations,
are being brutalized by the murderous and unjust U.S. wars in Afghanistan,
Iraq, Pakistan, and elsewhere. No! Corporate brand Barack Obama,
the Democratic Party, and his media cohorts cynically engaged in
diverting the attention of the people from these horrors
to a fake, one-sided monologue re alleged health care �reform� which
was in fact never intended to include what the vast�
majority of people most need and want, i.e. the single payer universal
health care public option. As is Obama�s practice, using deception
and rhetoric, he cynically utilizing the terrible pain of everyday
people against everyday people themselves
all in the fallacious name of �reform.�
Moreover,
it is apparently not enough that Barack Obama gave a big, fat bail-out
gift [of trillions of dollars of the people�s money]
to the very corporate Wall Street barons who manipulated, blood-sucked,
and brought about the financial melt down that is most impacting
everyday Black, Brown, Red, White, and Yellow people who
are simply trying to survive this economic horror.
Think about it. Obama�s �change� is more of the same only sneakier.
In
this, the second year of the Obama / Biden / Rahm Emanuel travesty,
even as the U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan rage
on and economic conditions steadily worsen for everyday
people right here at home, the Obama [so-called] Democrats intensify
in engaging in meaningless rhetoric and political, smoke and
mirror trickery. The people in those aforementioned nations
continue to die, even as the body bags containing the remains of
U.S. military personnel just keep on returning from the U.S. wars
abroad. The sorry and pathetic corporate media, in fact, continues
to be complicitous in beating the drums of war, while fathers, mothers,
sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunties, and friends
die, are wounded or are psychologically damaged scarred as the
cannon fodder of corporate capitalism and deceit.��
Led by Barack Obama, the Democratic Party foxes and the Republican
Party wolves are busy revitalizing and retooling the extremely
dangerous and unnecessary nuclear power plant industry in
this nation. This is being done to further enrich the coffers
of the corporate elite, not to protect or serve the everyday
people throughout this nation. This course of action is utter insanity.
Some conscientious serious, informed, and concerned environmentalists
have sounded the alarm about this, but relatively few people
thus far are aware of what the Republicrats [i.e. Democratic and
Republican Party politicians] are up to in this arena. The only
thing truly green about Barack Obama is money, his insatiable
appetite for more of it, and his corporate envy. Once more, the
everyday people be damned.
With
the complicity of the corporate media Obama, via his current U.S.
Secretary for Education, stealthily goes about the business of
privatizing public education and breaking the back of teacher�s
unions. This privatization of education negatively impacts economically
poor people of all colors, but its most severe debilitating
affect is upon Black, Brown, and Red students, not to mention teachers
/ educators across the academic spectrum.
Rest
assured that it is only a matter of time before Barack Obama,
the Democratic and Republican Parties, and their corporate
puppet masters set out to seriously dismantle and destroy
Social Security, further negatively impacting the everyday people
of this nation and most particularly disabled people and the
poor. The recent authoritarian Obama / Democratic Party sham
health care �reform� package has in essence already begun this process.
Once again, misleading & deceptive rhetoric and fear tactics
will be vigorously employed by these cynical rascals, unless they
are exposed and stopped.���
The
Obama Democratic Party foxes have already overwhelmingly supported
the trillion dollar criminal bail-out of the Wall Street corporate
vampires at the expense of everyday people. They have already overwhelmingly
supported the extension of the unconstitutional and police-state
�Patriot Act.� And they have overwhelmingly and shamelessly supported
both the extension and broadening of illegal U.S. kidnapping
and torture under the auspices of what is known as �Rendition.�
The everyday people of this nation are in serious trouble.
None
of these dangerous and despicable things could have occurred without
the complicity of liberals, fake progressives, and phony
leftists. These politically-putrid, pontificating
pundits of profundity are ushering in a bizarre form of 21st
century authoritarianism / fascism whose clutches are already upon
us. Indeed, as liberals, fake progressives, and phony leftists persist
in being the willing, silent and/or groveling supporters of corporate
brand Obama and his Democratic Party foxes it must be remembered
that ultimately �the [proverbial] chickens will come
home to roost.� Increasing joblessness, homelessness, home foreclosures, ongoing U.S.
wars abroad, coupled with the very real and growing police-state
in this nation are reaching a boiling point--despite
the corporate media�s omissions, denials, and constant disinformation
& rhetoric to everyday people.
WHAT
WE MUST DO
The
very first thing we must do is to mentally and in deed
divorce ourselves totally from the death grip of both the Democratic
Party foxes and the Republican Party wolves.
We must stop falling for the rhetoric of these corporately controlled,
blood-sucking conjurers.
We
must boldly form, build, and invigorate third parties [plural] outside
of and away from the foxes and wolves of the Democratic and Republican
parties [the Republicrats]. We must not wait for a local or national
election; we must begin this process in earnest NOW! We must disregard
the claims of those who say that real change can only be brought
about through the Democrat or Republican parties for they are in
fact acting as the gate-keepers for this politically bankrupt
and amoral system.
We
must organize for fundamental systemic change
that really serves the daily needs of everyday people. This means
starting locally where we live and/or work.
We
must educate ourselves and each other, always remembering the corporate
controlled and/or corporate-sponsored media is unwilling
and incapable of biting off the corporate hand that feeds
it.�
We
must audaciously, and in the clear, down-to-earth, understandable
language of everyday people, expose the lies and subterfuge of the
Democrats and Republicans.
We
must break the habit of relying, solely and without question, upon
the corporate or corporate sponsored media for honest news and information.
In breaking this habit we will not only feel better but we will
think clearer. Give much credence to your common sense.
We
must become our own media, disseminating first hand
information to our community locally, and to persons of like
mind nationally.
We
must learn to encourage one another and to remind each other that
every defeat and/or set-back that we experience can become a prelude
to an important future people�s victory in our community or indeed
nation-wide.
We
must be organized and serious, not haphazard and/or lethargic in
this people�s struggle.
We
must expect subterfuge, agents, and/or agent provocateurs but
never be deterred by them. Learn from the experience,
make the necessary adjustments, and continue in the
struggle. Remember that our actions (large or small), coupled with
persistence and patience are revolutionary virtues and we
must be creative revolutionaries.
We
must believe in ourselves and each other and when or if we
stumble, reach out to those who inspire and motivate us, as we do
them.
We
must develop, as Ernesto �Che� Guevara put it, �the faith of the
revolutionary,� and actualize that faith by what we
do.
The
Democrat[ic] and Republican Parties have demonstrated time and
time again that they are the enemies of the people---the enemies
of real systemic change on behalf of the teeming masses of
everyday people. The systemic terrorism and disinformation against
everyday people will continue unless we collectively
do something about it. We do not have to accept this rotten,
poisonous, stinking systemic pie.��
Each
one teach one! There is much to be accomplished. Onward
then 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
NewsHour, formerly known as The MacNeil/LehrerNewsHour. 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
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