that politics is done by politicians, who are uniquely qualified to manage the country. and so it's true: it's either the blue gang or the red gang who run the country, depending on the previous stylized combat of taxcow-counting.

reality doesn't matter, ethics doesn't matter, nothing matters but harvesting votes and sitting in the seats of power.

the on-lookers, the taxcows, are sometimes bemused by the amorality of politicians, because they haven't grasped the notion that all those sweet words at vote-counting time are issuing from characters who would be perfectly at home in a meeting of the hitler cabinet.

in any event, americans are content to be powerless on-lookers, gossiping about their masters as slaves do, but never imagining there is a better level of life, as a citizen of a democracy.

a rational society would make death simple and painless, and encourage people who are ill, or just content with the number of their days, to throw a 'going away' party, and take the pill.

in 'little big man', dustin hoffman's cheyenne 'grandfather' was continually saying "today is a good day to die." that was a joke then, but the attitude seemed to me very wise. now i'm old, and it still does.

you will get the justice you deserve.

you will have the freedom to obey.

you will keep tour eyes down when members of the elite address you.

pay your taxes, do as you are told, or you will go before a court that will cause your pain, and death.

by order of king obama, current master of the universe, and champion con-artist in the quadrennial american sucker-fest called 'elections.'

the american electorate were presented with a choice of 'more of the same', and 'change you can believe in'.

can you guess which lever they pressed? getting hard, innit?

but many elections have taught me, and american politicians, that you can fool enough people enough of the time.

i admire politicians. it's so hard to make a living with lies. your children don't respect you. but the taxcows do, or at least, bow their heads which is good enough.

american presidents have been authorizing crimes since 1776.

dubya's only point of difference is that he was casual about admitting it. he is not unique. by now, even some obamaphiles have come to understand that bho intends to continue secret trials, rendition, torture, bombing of civilians, and turning a blind eye.

the major difference so far is a more polished denial of crime.

the crime is inherent in the system. if you want a better result, you must make a better system. democracy is the place to start, but complaining about crimes without further action is the politics of hypocrisy. most complaining is done to earn a living, not as a feature of citizenship.

it was many more than 13, folks. the entire electorate of america was willing to put the american war machine, the secret police, and venal jurists in the service of the elite. that elite makes war not in defense of the nation, but for simple personal gain.

kindly quit demonizing the hyenas you put in charge of the nation. the guilt is closer to home.

who is in politics, and has dirty hands.

those not in politics don't count.

not party grandees, the people.

so do stop referring to america as a democracy, you can't see the truth if your vocabulary is wrong. america is an elective monarchy- the president has the powers of george the 3rd, on whose society the american constitution was modeled.

america is corrupt: the political, financial, commercial,and military elites are so tightly entangled that ordinary people are effectively disenfranchised. the technical term for this is fascism, although eisenhower disguised the problem with his 'military-industrial complex.'

the interweaving of the elite, and the power of parties to compel submission with money have removed the 'separation of powers' the founders thought adequate. the parties and their patrons will fight for power without regard for the public good.

de mint will fight for the interests of the wealthy nakedly, graham with subterfuge, neither gives a damn for anything but power. why should they? both are rightly contemptuous of the impotent public.

an electorate willing to be ruled by these creatures deserves everything that happens to them.

the policy of a nation should not be the plaything of any single person, even if elected.

america is a monarchy, elective, but a monarchy. there are bad kings and worse kings, but there cannot be good kings anymore than there can be good masters of slaves.

continuing to vote for kings is the politics of the slave, willing to turn his fortune over to a 'better' person, or unable to conceive resisting the society he was born into. the result is evil people seek power and get it, by forming gangs, called parties, and lying about what they do, or doing it in secret.

obama may be a better hyena than dubya and his gang, but the difference is trivial. every president is evil, it comes with the job, and good people do not apply.

the bloggers aren't going to win. winning can only be a verbal coup, until the people stand up and demand democracy. but a people debased by a lifetime of submission to national myths is not going to stand up anytime soon.

once you break out of the national myth, american history takes on a different cast.

i wish mr chomsky wrote more often, but he, and many others, who have assembled a documented history of america's character must get tired of being shouted down by the hyenas who profit from the national myth.

dubya not unique, and america should stand before before the international criminal court. but of course, the hyenas rightly are not going to participate in a court they do not control.