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.