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.