If there isn't a radical rupture with mainstream paradigm there's no
hope for the future in 08. People need to get their heads screwed on
straight. We don't need bogus ideas like you hear on Democracy Now!
"This is the greatest country in the world ;You can't do better than
democarcy; We have to protect the American way of life." What we
really have to do is bust people out of looking at the world in this
paralyzing way that does not reflect the truth. Or you hear liberals
say things like "The war is a mistake." When in reality it's an
attempt to preserve this lopsided system of inequality which is
Capitalism. This war comes from the heart, the very roots of globalism
and Capitalism at a particular moment in history. Instead we get
explanations like 'Bush is an idiot, or he's doing it for a few oil
companies or the Israeli lobby.' None of this begins to get at what is
really driving these wars. These wars, in the most fundamental sense,
are based because of this system of global exploitation of markets
resources and labor and forcibly knocking down any impediments to that
exploitation and preventing rivals from doing so. A two generation
war, 40 years, all in service of deepening and continuing US global
domination and power at the expense of millions of people. What kind
of system rejects and brutalizes immigrants, who want to create and
produce things? What kind of system wants to wage a 40 year war for a
resource (oil) which is destroying the planet? This system finds
itself up against big obstacles and challenges at any given moment.
And this war is their big attempt to reshuffle the deck, like World
War II. Bush, Cheney, O'Bama, Edwards, Clinton, they don't just want
to go back and defeat the 1960s, roll back women's rights to abortion,
or civil rights gained in the 1960s. They don't just want to do that.
They don't want to just go back 60 or 70 years and turn back the New
Deal and the welfare state. They want to go back 200 years the
founding of this country as a secular state. OK 200 years that's not
enough? Let's go back 400 years and throw out the Treaty of Westfalia
and the whole idea of International Law. You don't attack somebody who
hasn't attacked you. Let's go back 800 years to the Magnacarta, habeas
corpus, the separations of powers and the right to trial. Let's get
rid of that too. That's how extreme and reactionary this system is.
Again, not Bush the moron, but Bush the extreme personification of
Capitalism in an extreme moment. People talk about US democracy and
elections as if they are somehow floating in the air totally detached
from the economic foundations of this society namely Capitalism.
Somehow it's irrelevant that Bill Gates has 80 million dollars and
we're struggling to pay rent every month. Politics exist on the
foundation of economics. Democrats are standing on that foundation
fighting to maintain this system just the same as Republicans are.
This explains things other explanations don't get at. You hear, "Oh
the Democrats they don't have any spine." They have plenty of spine
when it comes to suppressing the people and fighting for Imperialism.
Or that they're selling out and betraying us. No, they are fighting
for their interests. The problem is their interests are radically
different from humanities. You voted to end the war, you got
escalation instead. This so call democracy is actually a Dictatorship
of a class whose interests are totally the opposite of humanity. The
whole point of the election facade is for you to go along and
legitimize the crimes they are committing. Are any of these
politicians saying it's not right the US controls the Middle East? Are
any of these politicians mentioning or trying to stop torture? I'm so
sick and tired of hearing "The system is broken." What you're seeing
is the system. This is how the system works. Look at it. This is what
Capitalist democracy looks like. Nothing good is going to happen
unless we break out of these confines imposed on us by these
representatives of the ruling class and act in the interests of
humanity and justice. The elections are about people sitting back and
not putting themselves on the line to challenge this. There is a moral
dimensions because if you're not resisting war crimes then you are
complicate in them. You remember the sixties people challenged each
other. It wasn't "I'm OK you're OK." We need to bring forward another
way. The democrats represent Imperialism. You think they are going to
stop being Imperialists or suddenly change?! That's what is totally
unrealistic. It's not like we live in the 1500s, and we don't know how
to heal the sick, feed the poor or give people shelter. What stands in
the way is Capitalism and Imperialism. We need revolution. Anything
else, any other solution, to these monstrous problems and outrages is
ridiculous. That's a vision I want to live for and fight to see.

Paraphrasing Larry Everest

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