I've avoided writing very much about the presidential election. I know I'm in a very tiny minority, many of whom are housed in large buildings with locked doors and bars on the windows. But I really see it as an entertaining distraction, a three-ring circus, keeping us all enthralled and on the edge of our seats, while out in the parking lot they are stripping our cars of anything that can be fenced to pawn brokers, body shops and used-tire dealers.
So while the photo at the head of this article would seem to suggest otherwise, I'm not going to add to the big noxious cloud of vaporous analysis and shock-jock commentary about who is up, who is down, where is Bernie, who is Jill, can you find Waldo.
Instead I'm staying the course here, announcing my latest initiative, and doing so, risking adding even more evidence to my public file that I'm masochistic and delusional.
Yes . . . I'm at it again, giving it one more shot, attempting to drive home my message.
"What is that message?" you ask innocently -- your acting about as convincing as Obama on his visit to Hiroshima when he donned such a sad face and declared nuclear weapons a very bad thing, though he's spending another $1 trillion to upgrade our nuclear arsenal.
Come on! You know my message! I'm more of a broken record than Bernie Sanders.
Speaking of whom, isn't it amazing how easy it is to marginalize and destroy a good man? A little voter fraud here, some media bias there, well-placed dollars to lock in the loyalty of super-delegates, the nauseating duplicity of "progressives" like President Obama and Elizabeth Warren, the nomination victory manufactured by the pundits, and BINGO!
Bye-bye, Bernie!
That's where things allegedly stand right now anyway.
But back to my message. Which is built around this certainly vulgar but perhaps thought-provoking question:
WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK?
Because . . . (brace yourselves, folks, here it comes again) . . . regardless of who ends up in the Oval Office . . .
IT'S CONGRESS THAT MAKES THE LAWS!
So this time . . .
I'm reaching out to progressive congressional candidates!
Anyone out there who is running for the Senate or the House, anyone out there who knows someone who is running for the Senate or the House, or anyone out there who knows what the Senate and the House of Representatives do, please look at my new activist website:
NO CONTRACT NO VOTE!
I have proposed this approach in countless blogs, published articles, and in three books.
It is a methodology, a strategy, a powerful political device for WINNING ELECTIONS!
Ha ha ha!
"Winning elections? Why would we want to win elections?"
If you have to ask, you might want to read this.
Anyway . . .
In my left-of-left, radical-revolutionary dreams -- or are they actually hallucinations? -- I imagine pink-slipping the current crop of corporate suck-ups, the pay-for-play political toadies, plutocratic lapdogs, flunky footmen for the rabidly rich, insatiable plunderers of our economy and destroyers of the American Dream, the sycophantic Yes-men of Wall Street looters and the too-big-too-jail banksters, the sniveling servants of crony-capitalists and ruthless kleptocrats pillaging our national wealth, the cynical complicit despoilers of democracy who are cravenly turning America into a Third World banana republic (if it's not completely obvious, I'm referring to the execrable frauds now serving in Congress), then replacing them with unselfish, committed, truly progressive public servants who honorably represent all of us, not just the rich and powerful.
And . . .
After completing my imagined shake-up of government and rooting out the corruption, installing a Congress of the people, by the people, for the people, a legislature serving the needs of all Americans, thereby assuring a healthy, safe, fulfilling, prosperous future for our children and our children's children -- YES! -- at this glorious juncture I see all of us, united, delirious, grateful-beyond-words, turning to one another and asking . . .
Is this really happening?
[ This originated at the author's personal website . . . http://jdrachel.com ]
Is this really happening?
