False Face of (ALL) Politics

After the escalation into Afghanistan, after the debacle of congressional wrangling over the federal budget, after seeing no CHANGE whatsoever, no matter how high the hopes in what could have been the biggest turnover in national ideological thrust-- I am throwing in the towel on all politics.

I no longer believe in democracy.

It doesn't exist.

There is only Capitalism cloaked in slogans. The wealthy have won and the rest of us don't matter. Free debate is a deceptive smog that layers everything and has no power whatsoever in affecting final outcomes.

2008 was the last election in which I will vote: I believe in nothing political. 2008 was our final chance and it was doomed from the start. We didn't know change was impossible once wealth is SO disproportionately placed (and has been since the Reagan 90's) once those who hold the wealth are so deeply embedded in the power structure itself, it becomes a thing immovable.

I feel like a child who believed in fairytales. I am beyond anger. I merely feel foolish.

Hope has been defeated at last by hype, who knew it all along.

We no longer have a two party system, we have a collective of rich men calling shots cannily enough to make it seem as though there is liberty-- while they self-serve, manipulating God and Religion and what they've defined as 'patriotism'- and 'We' no longer exist. The bastards control the whole Monopoly board. We can keep paying rent on 'Baltic', but they've got Park Place and all the utilities and the railroads we're landing on.....

one by one. The threat isn't terrorism, it's them. It always has been.