If family values are in the news, you can be sure an American
election is just around the corner. According to Republicans, gay marriage is a
glory hole puncturing the sanctity of the nuke-clear family, so for backing
such a ghastly proposal, with ring, no less, Obama is the "gayest president,"
according to Rand Paul, or "The First Gay President," per Newsweek. Anything to
sell that particularly brand of rectum tissues, I suppose, although I'd rather
use corn cobs.
Countering, Democrats will huff that the travails of their dead battery, soft
spot, touching turmoil or whatever it is that's inside their boxer's shorts or
panties is no one's business, least of all the government, though of course the
Democrat-appointed Janet Napolitano and her TSA hordes have set up an enduring
base next to their exposed, uh, discount toys. Irradiated and propped up by
Cialis, they don't look half bad. Oh yes, they do.
According to Democrats, Obama is a good liberal because he will also send gay
men and women worldwide to massacre whoever gets in the way of the oil liberals
need to drive their SUVs to anti-war rallies.
According to Republicans, Mitt is a good conservative since he can't stand
Ellen DeGeneres, Johnny Weir or Barney the Dinosaur, although he will condemn a
husband or wife halfway across the globe to commit unspeakable acts for years,
while the remaining spouse languishes at home in anxiety and loneliness, to be
comforted by some groggy chick at the bar, talk radio, a young cable guy,
Jesus, reruns of American Idol or, in the best case scenario, nothing at all.
Republican politicians pretend to cherish the traditional family, while their
Democratic counterparts feign that everyone should have a right to a family,
but in fact neither side cares about anyone's family, because they are
indifferent if not hostile to human connections, period. Propped up by our
military-banking complex, both parties support a bankrupting and bankrupted
banking system and an endless war policy that destroy families worldwide,
including here.
On top of that, they've tricked you into being plugged to their various
brainwashing machines all day long, so that you're divorced from your very
self, honey. Outside, birds, sunshine and mounds of corpses your tax money
murdered, though you wouldn't know it, because you're addicted to songs you've
heard for the billionth time, each, as well as Snookie updates, pixelated pussies,
cocks and boxscores.
Outside, a busking violinist
says that his life is easier now, since there are so many out-of-business
stores he can play in front of, without being shooed away. Outside, a person,
male or female, it's not clear, poses as a horse
for tips, as a real horse looks on. Outside, a Vietnam
vet drinks mouthwash to get high, while an Iraq vet shows his discharge
paper to prove that he is a genuine, disposable piece of fodder, and not just
an ordinary panhandler. A pint of Listerine with 21.6% alcohol costs $4.50,
compared to a 24 oz., tallboy can of Natural Ice at $1.49, with 5.9 % alcohol,
so Listerine is a much, much better value. It's not exactly Jameson, true, but
a few gulps will get you buzzed for maybe five hours. Outside, a man sells
Newport cigarettes, "Two for a dollar, two for a dollar. Who's next?
How are you today? Very good to see you. Welcome back, it's happy Monday. Time
to go to work! It's a beautiful day today, but don't get used to it. It's going
to rain tomorrow! We all have our own cross to bear, ladies and gentlemen. My,
aren't you lovely today! Yes, you! Welcome back!" If he sells the entire
pack in an hour, he will make $3.50. Outside, a man
drains a leftover soda fished from a trash can in a well-manicured downtown
plaza surrounded by bank skyscrapers.
But inside the screen, and thus inside your mind, all is well, stable and sexy.
The recovery is on track, unemployment is steadily going down, and new college
graduates are entering an improving job market, with multiple offers even.
Inside the screen, what happens in Europe stays in Europe, Detroit is back,
California is still the land of milk and honey and, soon enough, we will be
amped up by orations of hope, change, forward, believe in America, let America
be America and, yes, America can!
In this land of peeling yet persistent illusions, none is more farcical than
the Presidential election, for even as it promises renewal, common purpose,
focus and hope, and demands a collective soul searching, even, this elaborate
and drawn out ritual will deliver nothing more than a new (or renewed)
apologist for the same set of crimes against humanity, country and you. If
there's any good to this coming circus, it's that the empire seems determined
to maintain a relative peace until the electoral shenanigans are over. Though
it's itching for new rounds of shock and awesome, y'all, because that's how it
makes its money, it doesn't want to tip this tottering economy into the mother
of all ditches, not when citizens are somewhat focused on how to correct or
improve our common lot.
If enough machinists, PhDs and war veterans dumpster
dive and share a honey bucket, if whores dally in middle-class suburbs and
gas goes to 6 bucks, for example, the country will explode from sea to shining
sea, and not just because of well-placed FBI agents. With events quickly
spiraling out of control, this election may not go as choreographed, family
values be damned.
