Election Truth
Posted 10-06-2008 at 08:15 PM by Dr. Nick Nasty
Writing about the 1920 Presidential Election, journalist H.L. Mencken said:
"Neither candidate reveals the slightest dignity of conviction. Neither cares a hoot for any discernible principle. Neither, in any intelligible sense, is a man of honor."
Much the same could be said about the current contest.
Neither candidate wants to end the American Imperial Experiment, which has enriched a few selected weapons contractors, mercenaries, natural resource companies and a tiny theocratic state (Israel) while over-burdening our troops, pissing off now future generations of terrorists, and accelerating our decline into economic oblivion by at least 10 year.
Neither candidate will take on the dangerous Federal Reserve system, which in order to finance our corporate welfare-warfare state has inflated our currency to the point where it may soon cost $20 for a simple gallon of milk. Neither candidate wants to actually tax unearned wealth and luxury, which have corrupted our morality and sense of private fiscal responsibility. Both want to continue unjustly taxing our labor.
Both candidates want to further the centralization of power at the Federal Level through more regulation (which in reality means more Big-Biz protectionism at the expense of small business entrepreneurship), as well as add to and continue the immoral drug war and other domestic repression programs.
Both propose more cartelization of industry as the answer to the current Depression, all but guaranteeing a nasty few years might become a miserable decade
Both, as radicals on the Left and the Right have argued, are creatures of the Corporate State, for the Corporate State, and by the Corporate State.
This does not mean, however, one should not vote or there is nothing worth voting for. Several Third Party candidates across the spectrum have come out in agreement about our decline into idiocratic fascism. Moreover, local level politics DO matter, as people in every New England state get to send messages to their respective regimes—and, as a matter of course and distance, you better believe they will listen a lot closer than people in DC might. There are also ballot questions. Massachusetts is in position to be the one of the most libertarian states in terms of marijuana policy if things break right.
You've heard about mavericks, hope, change. DON'T BUY IT. We've seen that movie too.
The great Ron Paul once said truth is treason in the empire of deceit.
Vote for truth.
"Neither candidate reveals the slightest dignity of conviction. Neither cares a hoot for any discernible principle. Neither, in any intelligible sense, is a man of honor."
Much the same could be said about the current contest.
Neither candidate wants to end the American Imperial Experiment, which has enriched a few selected weapons contractors, mercenaries, natural resource companies and a tiny theocratic state (Israel) while over-burdening our troops, pissing off now future generations of terrorists, and accelerating our decline into economic oblivion by at least 10 year.
Neither candidate will take on the dangerous Federal Reserve system, which in order to finance our corporate welfare-warfare state has inflated our currency to the point where it may soon cost $20 for a simple gallon of milk. Neither candidate wants to actually tax unearned wealth and luxury, which have corrupted our morality and sense of private fiscal responsibility. Both want to continue unjustly taxing our labor.
Both candidates want to further the centralization of power at the Federal Level through more regulation (which in reality means more Big-Biz protectionism at the expense of small business entrepreneurship), as well as add to and continue the immoral drug war and other domestic repression programs.
Both propose more cartelization of industry as the answer to the current Depression, all but guaranteeing a nasty few years might become a miserable decade
Both, as radicals on the Left and the Right have argued, are creatures of the Corporate State, for the Corporate State, and by the Corporate State.
This does not mean, however, one should not vote or there is nothing worth voting for. Several Third Party candidates across the spectrum have come out in agreement about our decline into idiocratic fascism. Moreover, local level politics DO matter, as people in every New England state get to send messages to their respective regimes—and, as a matter of course and distance, you better believe they will listen a lot closer than people in DC might. There are also ballot questions. Massachusetts is in position to be the one of the most libertarian states in terms of marijuana policy if things break right.
You've heard about mavericks, hope, change. DON'T BUY IT. We've seen that movie too.
The great Ron Paul once said truth is treason in the empire of deceit.
Vote for truth.
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