I’m 50,
unemployed, and poor. Okay? I don’t give a damn about whether or not Bashar
al-Assad runs Syria, about Russia, or any of these other so-called political
concerns I’m told to have by the Democratic Party who has learned the sum total
of absolutely nothing in the 2016 election. When it was revealed the election
of 2016 was more about economic concerns than anything else, the Democrats
vowed to work on that—the promptly forgot it and blamed the loss on Russia.
Despite the fact that Russia has not laid off Americans or contributed to
poverty in the United States.
I am
tired of Democrats who assume I’ll vote for them because I’m poor. They’re
toying with a new 2018 campaign slogan that says, “Have You Seen The Other
Guys?” Yes, actually, I have seen the other guys. And you know what? You’re as
bad as they are. When people can’t afford Obamacare, you tell them, “You should
get a better job”. Just like Republicans would say. When people want the
individual mandate repealed because they don’t want to be penalized for not
being able to afford your so-called “affordable” health care, what do you say?
“People need to take personal responsibility for their health care!” Amazing!
Because that is exactly what the Republicans say whenever the concept of single
payer health care comes up! You guys cheat by copying one another’s homework.
The
Democrats have Kamala Harris attend some hush-hush meeting up in the Hamptons
and assume I can’t see through this charade of another wealthy, privileged
individual who’ll allegedly understand the things I struggle with. Really? So
Kamala wonders how she’ll afford her medication? Kamala knows how to eat on $20
a week because she has to? Kamala shops for clothes at thrift stores? I see the
Democrats are just doing business as usual. Providing another pre-picked
candidate who would be a high-profile banking executive if she hadn’t chosen
politics to express her privileged status.
The
Democrats run a good game, I’ll give that to them. People think they’re somehow
different from Republicans when, in fact, they’re not. Both of these parties
connive and fool two segments of the working class into voting for them. Urban
working class voters vote for the Democrats and rural working class voters vote
for Republicans and all of them get soundly screwed collectively no matter who
wins. It also makes sure the shell game of popular vote and electoral vote
provide the perfect imbalance for the genuine needs of all. Russia does not
need to rig a U.S. election when both political parties have proven themselves
more than capable of doing so themselves without outside help.
I love
how Democrat and Republican politicians both tell voters to man the phones and
call in about this or that issue to make sure it gets passed or repealed.
Excuse me, but were you not elected to represent the voters in your districts?
You should already know what your district wants and vote accordingly. But you
don’t know and, besides all of that, you have no idea how the people in your
districts live. None of you does without health care. None of you go to the
food bank. None of you drive on bald tires, or even drive yourselves for that
matter. None of you know how I live and, therefore, I will not waste my time
calling your offices where you sit on the phone chatting with bankers and
defense contractors promising to deliver payola.
I even
hear Democrats who want Hillary to run in 2020. Now here America has told you
they don’t want her, but no. You insist on trying to cram Hillary down the
throat of America and when you lose that election, you’ll blame Russia again.
Brilliant. Meanwhile, the poor get poorer and you don’t actually give a damn or
you’d have run a candidate that put people before party. Not one of you knows
how to do that because the party is power and you’re all addicted to it like
the power junkies you are. “Oh, he sounds angry…” You’re damn right I’m angry
and none of your so-called “free press” actually report the news or the truth,
either, because all of you have lost touch with the truth a long time ago.
All these
games get played, all these wars get started, and hundreds of thousands die,
and for what?!
For what,
I ask you?! What, you think Trump started this horrific slaughter in Syria and
Yemen? What, Trump got inaugurated and suddenly wars broke out in Yemen and
Syria? No! Your all-wise, all-knowing President Obama contributed to this
slaughter and you all sat there nodding your heads with peace symbol stickers
on your Priuses. You bunch of hypocrites! You’re as bad as the Republicans with
their “regime change” crap and “We’re bring democracy to the Middle East!” As
if the Middle East sat there for thousands of years longer than the United
States even existed, saying, “Gosh, we wish someone would bring us democracy.”
No! You’ve brought them wholesale death and destruction! The biggest export
America has is death! The creation of widows and orphans!
Hundreds
of thousands dead and none of you can even admit to the woefully tragic
mistakes all of you have made. That hundreds of thousands died and Assad
remained in power despite Obama’s vows that he must step down. Those people
died for nothing. Because American promises of democracy amount to nothing.
Just ask those of us here allegedly living under it with our own rigged
elections we accuse Assad of running and the poverty inflicted on us so
American defense contractors can get rich. The entire United States government
and both political parties are mass murderers on a scale that dwarfs Caligula
and Nero. Is it any wonder why federal buildings here look like the Roman
Empire built them? And the United States doesn’t treat the Middle East any
better than they did.
I’ve
heard this crap since 1980. I could pave a path to the moon with the promises.
And they promise the moon, too. Or was that a NASA mission to Mars. To see
what? The galactic equivalent of Death Valley but not as interesting. “Oh,
sorry you’re poor. Here, have a mission to Mars.” I wish all of you would board
the ship and go to Mars and stay there. But there’s probably some environmental
law against dumping toxic waste on Mars, so you’ll wiggle out of exile that
way. Not that any of you have the courage to go any of the hellholes you send
people to in order to glorify yourselves and gloat as if you’d done it and not
them. Just look at the wars you idiots start or decide to join. We’ve been in
Afghanistan now going into the last half of its second decade.
No, I’m
done. Run this show without me. I’ve had enough.
Jack Perry [send him mail]
is a writer, journalist, and the author of "Regime Change You Can Believe In".
He lives with his wife in the Sonoran Desert where he writes, reads, walks the
desert, and abstains from political party participation. When the government is
speaking or acting, Jack observes his own Rule Number One: Always Assume It's A
Scam. A perennial desert rat, wayfarer, and path pilgrim, Jack also enjoys
silence---especially from the government. Follow him on Twitter:
TheRealJackPerry@RegimeChangeInc.
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