SUPER TUESDAY - A DREAM DEFERRED

Super Tuesday and the primaries are finally winding down. “Super” only because the pundits say it’s “super”. In fact it’s just another Tuesday where the majority of people living in this country are getting politics as usual again especially if the outcome produces Clinton and McCain as the leading candidates because the only change that will occur is that it will be someone else’s empty rhetoric that the press will spoon feed us or shove down our throats and hope we are distracted enough to not demand more of the government to which we give our consent.

The king makers have already decided who will represent each half of the one party that governs the nation and in the form of daily news coverage now passes them off to the public as “choices” thus creating an air of legitimacy for a system which no longer operates in the best interest of the governed. It was Stalin who once said that “It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything” as evidenced by the 2000 fraudulent election. In 2008 however it is all too obvious that it is “those who decide who the candidates will be before the first vote is cast that will decide everything”.

“What a country” to quote that Republican Independent from Connecticut where you have a choice as well as the protected right to exercise that right to choose from among prescreened and predetermined choices as long as one is sufficiently entertained from realizing that the choice and the exercise of that choice are meaningless when that which one can choose from has already been selected from that economic social strata which wants to at the very least keep what they have if not acquire and secure more.

The one question that was never asked at any of the preceding debates was the only question which would have revealed the vision of each of the leading candidates: Can we really afford to spend more than two billion dollars a week fighting a war that was supported by at least 935 lies, financed by drastic cut backs to social services and the agencies that provide them while no one accepts responsibility nor is anyone held accountable when our own people are mired in credit card debt, student loan debt or mortgage foreclosure, millions don’t even have health care, millions more lack adequate health care, and millions more can no longer afford higher education unless they are willing to volunteer to make the supreme sacrifice?

The future of our Republic faces an economic recession, the consequences of global warming ranging in the hundreds of billions of dollars damage which will continue unabated as we continue to ignore the causes, our infrastructure is falling apart, as a nation and a people we are indeed broke and the best this government can do is offer a stimulus package that gives money to people in the hopes they spend it on something they’ve been socialized to believe they need – shouldn’t we advised about saving? But then again this is the same government that advised us all to go shopping within a week of 9/11. The choice between Clinton or McCain will not substantively alter the existing economic relationships that threaten the stability of our economy.

The Republican candidates will claim they won’t raise taxes but they also won’t give us the straight talk that they’ll borrow the money from other countries to finance their perpetual war against the terrorism created by Washington and they won’t tell us the straight talk that it will be future generations of Americans whose jobs were outsourced overseas who will have to pay the debt. Whatever the Democrats say will rarely if ever be matched by what they do because this is the party that absolutely lacks the courage of its convictions.

In the end we’ll be told that the system works but right now everybody knows the dice are loaded and everybody know the game is fixed and now everyone should at least suspect by now that the primaries are but a charade to convince a nation of sheep that not only are these candidates of different political persuasion but better yet the people can actually decide which of the candidates will lead the Republic and which one will go home much like the fate of those who loose on an increasing number of reality shows where the public votes from home to send someone they like less than someone else home all while missing the irony that the loser gets sent home – a loser among losers.

When we vote in November we will be legitimizing a system that produces a mainstream candidate who will protect, defend, and perpetuate the status quo but one who can no longer hold the center together. The empire is in a state of collapse, our military is spread too thin trying to seize and defend the interests of big business abroad rather than protecting the Constitution of the United States at home, our legislative branch represents the corporate interests and no longer the public interest, the system of checks and balances is nothing but text book rhetoric which Republicans have removed from political reality with a wink and a nod from a spineless opposition while partisan judges appointed by a wealthy minority confer legitimacy on tyranny.

Until then mainstream media which has already declared John McCain to be the Republican standard bearer now occupies itself with creating news about the Democratic race between Senators Clinton and Obama. In fact the mainstream media seems to be so content with their own spin and satisfied with claiming that Obama represents the hope and optimism for change that it fails to realize or intentionally ignores the reality that the people that are fed up with a war criminal as commander-in-chief, an incompetent president who turned a budget surplus into an economic recession, a spineless Congress that rubber stamped the crime and held no one accountable, and a judicial branch of government that proved justice is indeed blind.

That is what the American public wants to be changed, nothing more and nothing less than the politics as usual. While Senator Obama may reflect the hope and optimism of that change the political reality of American politics to date is that the establishment will not permit it nor will it be able to prevent what happens when the American dream is deferred come November when it’s Clinton vs McCain.