Trivial pursuits

“Explosive new controversy” my ass. The hysterical blowhard Blitzer has been hyping up Kerry’s statement about the uneducated being “stuck in Iraq” as though the future of the world hinged on finding something offensive in the Democrats while the Party of Evil drags us praying and patriobloviating down the road to fascism and tyranny. CNN and all the rest of the corporate media are desperate not to appear anything like a loyal opposition; desperate to create false balance by making much out of nothing and nothing out of much.

Who gives a damn if John Kerry insinuated that a large proportion of the kids showing up at enlistment offices have few other options in life? It’s true and it’s true that standards have been lowered to allow those with dubious backgrounds and marginal personalities to enlist. The fiction that kids are signing up in droves because they want to fight for freedom, the glory of the flag or any other resuscitated jingoistic cliché of the day, is more than fiction – it’s a lie. It’s a lie just as every step of our road to Iraq was a lie; just as every campaign promise and every bit of Christian posturing, every fake and cynical pretense at populism was a lie.

How pathetic is it that Democrats in the midst of the dissolution of American values, laws and principles; in the midst of a slide into plutocratic fascism, in the midst of unprecedented incompetence, corruption, theft of public treasure and at the beginning of the end of American leadership in the world, have to whimper and cringe because a former candidate didn’t for a moment maintain the façade – didn’t maintain the false fawning over the troops who are dying for nothing? Has Wolf been to war? Has Karl Rove, or any of the other fat assed barroom generals who send people to die to cover their lies?

There is only one controversy and you’re not going to hear it from Wolf or any other of the employees of the propaganda machine – and that’s whether after Tuesday even the silliest, Bush besotted and cringing cowards and deluded dimwits can continue to pretend that the country which once saved the world for freedom has retained the right to think of itself as having any more moral foundation than a troop of baboons.

If you don’t vote the criminals out of office, it’s you who are going to be stuck in Iraq; you who are going to be stuck in a country that is no longer answerable to the will of the governed, to the constitution or to a body of law. It’s either that we vote them out and hope they will actually leave or by default we vote freedom out and welcome endless war and the kingdom of Bush.