Since I'm asked, as stated in a piece right after the Maine caucus that I participated in, the reason I'm saying the Green Party in 2016 is a fraud that should be ended is that I'm hearing a lot of insane talk about people voting for the Green candidate for president instead of the only person who will stand between the world and a President Donald Trump or Ted Cruz. Now that the Republican establishment has hitched its wagon to Cruz, it's certain to be one of the other of those horrific prospects who are the alternative to the Democratic candidate.
This election is as explicit a choice between democracy and fascism as we've ever faced and some people on the nominal left really, truly are talking openly of throwing it to the fascists. If that isn't enough to rouse people to the reality of that danger they are not the people of high principle they love to tell you they are, they are criminally insane.
2000 has taught a dangerously high number of people nothing, apparently. The fact that one of our major parties is controlled by fascist lunatics is not seen by them as terrifying a prospect as it should be. The media express puzzlement - though they seem to be becoming habituated to the idea of us having a fascist strongman in the presidency as soon as January of next year. They will do what they always do, bow on bended knee to whoever the Republicans put in office, that's what they do. And it should be clear, now, that a dangerously high part of the mostly white, mostly middle class and above, so-called left is doing the same thing. Oh, yes, they'll grouse and complain online, junking up comment threads when it's too late but they won't do anything to stop it, now. They will mount or cheer on show demonstrations that the media will turn to the benefit of the fascists, they'll have learned nothing from the Occupy futility of recent times.
If this isn't stopped at the ballot box it's not going to be stopped by the courts which are dominated by fascists, the fascists who rigged the rules to get us where we are today with the help of peudo-liberal libertarians from the free speech-free press industry. It was the regime of billionaire purchased liars and lies that has gotten us here as the alleged liberals on courts and in the legal profession enabled that through their slogans a dimwitted and ever dying echo of their heroes from the age of quill pens and late-medieval, hand set type.
This is a real crisis, it's a crisis that has been building steadily since Nixon took office and began to put people like Rehnquist on the Supreme Court. This is what it looks like when democracy turns to fascism. It's no time to be playing revolutionaries and voting for play parties which have never elected a single person to a federal office in thirty years of its playing at politics.
It's the "young people" vote, because apparently young people, unfettered by experience or knowledge or much of damned anything, are wiser and purer and better than the rest of us, and deserve to have a say because there are so many of them this time around, and besides, their on the intertoobs, so they're the future!
ReplyDeleteGawdelpus.
How many of these "young people" were alive in 2000 and aware of what was going on? My daughter is 24, which means she was 8 in 2000; not exactly paying attention to politics, if you know what i mean. She's about the right age for the supporters of Bernie: old enough to have left college already, young enough to still be considered a "young voter." Six years younger than here (old enough to vote, and be in college), your memory of 2000-2008 is that of an 4 year old to 12 year old.
Again, not exactly politically astute years.
But they're young, and they're the future, right! As I keep reminding people, so were the Boomers when 18 year olds got the vote in '72. How'd that work out for changing the future?