Day: March 22, 2008

The Smartest Man In The U.S.

We just marked the 5 yr anniversary of th Iraq War.  Nearly 4000 dead, many thousands wounded, and half a trillion dollars later.  What have we learned?

We learned the the government lied.  we learned that they had no idea what to expect in the days after the fall of Baghdad.  But wait!  That is not necessarily true.

Ever hear of Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski?   He was the senior foreign policy adviser to Carter.  And quote possibly the smartest man in the US.  Why do I say this?  Simple, on the day the Iraq war began he gave an interview and told everyone that it was a mistake and would be a disaster.  When asked why he felt this on March 19, 2003, he said:  there was no substantial evidence of WMD, he also said that this war would bog US forces down in Iraq for many years, and that the US would lose a lot of international credibility and that it would make the US more susceptible to retaliation.

The problem no one was listening, especially Congress who ran blind folded into the war.  Now he has been proven to be correct in his predictions.  Maybe it is time to take this smart man seriously and ask him the best way for the US to extract itself from Iraq.  Whatever plan he suggest has got to be better than the one we have now.

What About Your Congress

With all the bullsh*t about the Dems and their campaigns, your Congress has been able to get relief from the heat they had been taking before the primaries. They are still a do nothing bunch of wealthy individuals that do not want to buck the White House.

They voted for a war, then they continue to support it with funds and they will allow more torture and they will allow more domestic spying on Americans and then they will allow more kids to go unfunded in health care. Now where is the voting on the mandate they said they has when they took control in 2007?

Please explain to me their function as of your last Civics class

(LONG PAUSE FOR EFFECT)

Now that the fantasy is out of the way, let us move on to reality. The truth is that this legislature exists as public relations gesture toward the people to make it appear that here is democratic participation of the people, but without ant substantial power. The people voted a majority of Dems into the Congress, and how has that worked out? Voting is a powerful mechanism, but it is only a trade off for the political elite to remain in control. All it accomplishes is to legitimize the whole process of a government controlled by the elite over the will of the masses.

Howard Zinn said it best, “voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by the citizens”. Never a truer bunch of words have been spoken. But the American voter does not want to be involved beyond every four years. They want someone to tell them what is best for them. Nothing will be accomplished for the people of the country until that thinking is eliminated and that is my job.

Political Quote Of The Week

Some of our founding fathers were not as “democratic” as they are taught in school. This quote is from William Penn, the father of Pennsylvania and a minor founding father.

“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed”

Gee sounds like the system were have now. If you vote every 4 yrs then you are somehow governing yourself. You are not, you are giving control to someone who is not there in your behalf.