Hank
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Poster: Hank @ Tue Jun 14, 2011 5:30 pm
These are alien and foul times.
Or, maybe not so alien. Twenty-five years ago, our government was making deals with the Afghani Taliban and daydreaming about bombing Khadafi and his whole blood-sodden country back into the Stone Age, while disgraced TV preachers hid their stoatlike faces in shame. A decade ago, we were making deals with Khadafi while bombing the bejeezus out of the Afghans. Today, most people have figured out that making deals with us is a losing game, so we've just decided to bomb them all while this decade's disgraced preacher, the evil and destructive Harold Camping, gets his cosmic comeuppance, having been silenced by a stroke shortly after having conned many thousands out of their life savings to fund his ill-considered psuedobiblical doomsday campaign.
Meanwhile, the dope-sick shaggy hounds running the show at GOP headquarters are toasting the upcoming election, having learned over the past several years that the American public has a deep thirst for a certain species of bloodthirsty lobotomite, itself the result of a secret breeding program having been conducted deep within turncoat Dennis Miller's grotty basement over the past 15 years which culminated in the release and subsequent wild success of openly stupid, murder-crazed hateshell Sarah Palin. She slyly assisted in the final killing of emasculated old fool John McCain and then built herself an immense cult of ignorance. Its members, who are legion, aren't shaken when she or her numerous imitators are exposed as dangerously incompetent and possibly in the end stages of neuron-destroying syphilis. They applaud and rally, energized by a leader whose function it is to mirror and validate their own ignorance. Palin even became the first mainstream national American politician since the Reconstruction to openly encourage use of the racial epithet "n***er," which is no small signifier.
Palin and all of her murderous minions were raised on the bread of Ronald Reagan, a man whose twisted vision was driven by dreams of Armageddon. They've taken his doomed, "Us vs. Them" approach to reality and inverted it so that instead of Commies, they're after "Liberals" and others who don't cleave to their deeply nihilistic worldview. And of course, the slavering-mad rabble that follows them is ready to do their command. Arizona Repesentative K. Giffords found out the hard way what it's like to tangle with the insane animals influenced by these Draculas.
Of course, at the other end of the room we have a big clump of cackling Satanic hyenas who managed to hoodwink a nation sick of George W Bush's warmongering, total disregard for human life, and habit of giving tax money away to private corporations, and immediately after being elected on their platform of "Change," proceeded to perpetrate all the same vile crimes as their predecessors, but worse. Most of the poor saps who'd supported the Democratic ticket in 2008 were starting to get wise to this, when the news started pouring in that the hyenas had managed to summarily execute the king bogeyman of the previous decade. Whether or not that actually happened is irrelevant. Either way, the news gave Obama, who seemed destined from the start to be a one-termer, a vague shot at winning re-election in 2012. The hyenas are pleased, and lap happily at pools of human blood that have collected in their corner. .
And amidst these atavistic spectacles are the blighters once known as 'citizens,' but now more commonly called by a name that better describes their function -- "consumers." They're so petrified at the idea of having to confront reality outside the poisoned cocoon of cheap products that they more or less just hold tight while being slowly exsanguinated, hoping that they'll be able to cling to the bizarre and terrible fantasy of comfort and security until they're gently plucked from the land of the living by a smiling G_d.
The bottom line is that we're living in a profoundly cruel replay of the very worst scenes from the 1980s. Only this time, after a busy 30 years of systematically ruining our resources and society, 'hope' isn't anything but a mean joke sometimes cracked at drunken and cynical cocktail hours.
At least this time around, we don't have to listen to Don Henley.
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