The United States is out of control and represents a terrible threat to world peace. We're not the only "bad guys" by a long shot, but we spend more on our defense than China, Russia and the nations of the European Union combined. We have more resources to cause mayhem, and we've embraced a post Cold War foreign policy that compells us to use those deadly resources. In addition, the integrity of our electoral process is in question. We know that there was some manipulation of the vote totals in Florida and Ohio in 2000 and 2004. They weren't mistakes, as some will claim. If that's all they were, then Gore and Kerry would have picked up roughly half of the votes that were miscounted. In reality, close to 100% of the miscounted votes were in Bush's favor.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but as Rodney Dangerfield so eloquently puts it in Caddyshack, "I ain't no door-knob, neither." I have a brain, and something is amiss. What the Bush Cult doesn't realize is that they are playing with revolution when they call into question the probity of our elections. If people start to lose faith that their vote will be counted, they will turn to other methods of influencing expressing dissent. We may retain the patina of republican government for propaganda purposes, but in reality we'll be ruled by an oligarchy. In a sense, we already are, but at least we have (or had up until recently) the power to select who runs our government.
When you mix religious fanatacism into the potion, and talk of "crusades" and a world conflict between Judeo-Christian "civilization" and the rest of humanity, you have all the elements in place to create a dangerous rogue nation. A huge gap between the rich and poor aids the centralization of power within, and we have that in spades. And you want to see something really scary? According to a BBC documentary entitled, "Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs," Bush claims to get advice directly from Jesus. He doesn't just pray, he talks to god. The BBC reports that Bush spoke with former Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath along with Mahmud Abbas in 2003. Shaath recalls our president saying, "I'm driven with a mission from God." Also, it seems that King Bush is on a first name basis with the Almighty. "God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan'," he told the assembled Palestinians. Bush also kindly relates a conversation he had with the Great Sky-King where he is told to, "'Go and end tyrrany in Iraq...' and I did." Shaath also remembers Bush saying that he would bring peace to the Middle East by securing Israel and creating a Palestinian state, at God's command.
This doesn't inspire confidence. If you think god is talking to you, then whatever he is saying is bound to take precedence over reason, compassion or the expressed will of the people. The man thinks that god is talking to him! I knew a fellow who spoke to god. He was a couple of beds away from me in the Men's Dormitory at The Arbour, a nuthouse in Jamaica Plain, Boston. God told him to jump off the third-floor of his aunt's "triple-decker" in Chelsea. It didn't work out for him. After they screwed him back together, they gave him a cot near me. I never thought he'd be president.
Our republic is in pathetic shape. It is run by a total douchebag who really wanted to be president, and won. Now he is busy using his power to give flight to his insane notions, paranoia, narcissism and delusions. It's too bad that Massachusetts can't break off from the U.S. and become a new nation-state. Well, perhaps it's worth a try. While "red states" bitch about the federal government, they get more money back from the federal system than they pay in. New Mexico, for example, gets $2 back for every dollar in federal taxes it spends. It's ironic that Massachusetts, the "bluest of the blue states" according to just about every political analyst, including Tim Russert, gets back a mere 77 cents for every federal dollar sent. So we're losing money by being a part of this joke of a country, the laughingstock of thinking people and the nation behind the murder of 100,000 Iraqi people. The U.S. wouldn't sign the Kyoto Treaty, violates the Geneva Conventions, and refuses to agree to a worldwide ban on the use of mines.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts needs to break free. Let's do it. They probably won't mind, anyway. More than one Republican has said that Massachusetts is like a foreign country. So let's be a foreign country. Cram it, America.
By the way, Chavez speaks the truth. A cloud of sulphur follows Bush around wherever he goes. I don't think he's the devil, I think he's just a flatulent little mental patient.
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