Stoopid Stuff

The Blood Red Tide is Dimmed

Pirates. Snipers. Head shots. We win.

A sex murder in Tracy, but the perp is a woman.

Some whack job thinks the President can just order firearms confiscation and he shoots three cops.

Another guy who couldn't find a way to live in this land of inequality shoots Oakland cops to stay out of prison.

Minnesota's representative from the 6th District calls for armed insurrection.

And the people trying to solve the financial crisis seem more interested in protecting and enriching the bankers than doing the right thing for America, not to mention the whole world.

Yep. It's unraveling. We're seeing it now. It's slow, and there are times when something happens to make us feel hopeful, but overall, big picture? It's all getting away from us. With hundreds of thousands of American Imperial soldiers on the ground throughout the middle east and south Asia, in order to expand our fight with poor rural people in India, we use robots. Someone explain to me how that exonerates us in a way that manned aircraft would not?

And accelerating the unraveling, the American opposition party has embraced a mindless, racist, tribal, anti-intellectual kind of populist ideology, struggling mightily to prevent the elected American political leadership from diverting American funds to help Americans in need. The cognitive dissonance required to cling to a discredited ideology against one's own best interests is stunning in it's scope.

The things that must be done to save the economy, maintain an American quality of life, reverse the ravages of climate change and create a peaceful, prosperous world are as obvious as they are necessary. And so, the guardians of the status quo make certain that it is taboo to even discuss them. Reduce the defense budget? Impossible! Place a cost on the negative externalities of carbon-based energy? Not if it costs me one red cent! Restructure the Financial sector? Probably can't win that one - it seems they have "invested" in the political leadership to the point where they own them.

If you step back from the day-to-day news cycle, it's plain to see that things are coming apart, and, at least for Americans, are not going to improve any time soon. The lunatics have been running the asylum for so long that to question their madness is to see them immediately close ranks and shout rationality down. And then they gibber and dance, shouting incoherently and smearing their feces on the future. And, like Alice through the looking glass, we must pretend this is exactly how things should be...

posted by mikey @ 6:36 PM