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I am 64 years old. I have never been as disgusted with the political situation in the United States as I am now. On a scale from 1 to 10, I score all of the Republican candidates and Barack Obama at -1.
In other words, unfit and unqualified to serve.
Hell, I refuse to support Obama because I consider him to be a serial liar and a war criminal who supports indefinite detention, torture, and extrajudicial assassination. He’s flat out insane and dangerous. There is only one place he should be and it is not the White House. It is a prison cell.
The mind blowing fact about the campaigns of the various candidates is the absence of any acknowledgement and discussion of the important issues of these difficult times.
(1) Why empire?
(2) Why no civil liberties?
(3) Why are 2.3 million people locked up?
(4) Why haven’t all drugs been legalized?
(5) Why isn’t anything being done about unemployment?
(6) Why not single-payer health insurance for all?
(7) Why not free college and graduate education?
(8) Why forfeiture?
(9) Why no prosecutions of war criminals and criminal banksters?
(10) Why haven’t the TBTF banks been allowed to fail or taken over and broken up?
(11) Why the extreme and increasing disproportional distribution of income and what can be done to reverse it?
(12) Why oil?
(13) Why nuclear?
(14) Why coal?
(15) Why poverty?
These are some, but not all of the problems that beset us and I neither want to hear, nor will I listen to all these stupid jerk candidates babbling about bullshit.
Fortunately, OWS is starting to change the dialogue, and that gives me hope.
Which brings me to The Deal.
Listen to this tune by the Grateful Dead with OWS as The Deal.
OWS is The Deal.
The Deal
Source: The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics by David Dodd.
Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing.
Since it cost a lot to win
and even more to lose
You and me bound to spend some time
wondring what to choose
Goes to show you don’t ever know
Watch each card you play
and play it slow
Wait until your deal come round
Don’t you let that deal go down
I been gambling here abouts
for ten good solid years
If I told you all that went down
it would burn off both your ears
It goes to show you don’t ever know
Watch each card you play
and play it slow
Wait until your deal come round
Don’t you let that deal go down
Since you poured the wine for me
and tightend up my shoes
I hate to leave you sittin there
composin lonesome blues
It goes to show you don’t ever know
Watch each card you play
and play it slow
Wait until your deal come round
Don’t you let that deal go down
Don’t you let that deal go down, no
Don’t you let your deal go down
9 Comments
I’m 62, and a fellow Eternal Flamer with you and OWSt. (Obama and DEMiserepuilkans) for the Real DEAL, instead!
Right on!
why is none of this being discussed?
Here’s an analogy.
Animal Psychologists have learned that the animals penned up and being pushed through the chutes to the abattoir are much more calm if they can’t see what it being done to ones at the end of the line.
Yeah, but we the people know what the issues are and we are getting more and more disgusted with the revolting candidates and their idiotic chatter.
I certainly agree, but I think that there are too few of us that are actually paying attention. There will be no help from the msm because they are too tied to the 1% in one way or another. I suspect that people that you would think should agree with you will be hesitant and won’t want to understand the problems.
Your list of “why nots” is so indisputable and breath taking that it’s hard to imagine functioning in the society as it is any longer in any capacity .
A big flower is opening in my heart , unstoppable and eternal.
Thank you for being us .
I hear ya. What they do talk about is all smoke and mirrors and nothing of substance. Call it the “Kardashian Campaign Style”. A really expensive BS job. The fact that so much money flows for this BS job shows how truly amoral ‘Merka is with homeless, starving children. Makes me sick.
I have a one-word answer to every single one of the questions posed in this post.
Money.
It’s all about some money.
“And for what?
A little bit of money.”
(movie line. Fargo)
Settle for Love, Joe Ely: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMjQE2dapos