Reply #55: re democratic nonsense

[Ure Kismet]

Here we go another spruiker for empire who imagines the rest of the world actaully falls for the pretend democracy espoused by the amerikan empire.
The only candidates allowed to run in amerika without spending bucketloads on lawyers in each state for dispensation to get on the ballot, are those nominated by one of two parties whose range of views is narrow and largely irrelevant. eg Stem cell research or gay marriage divide the voters, matters which are far better decided at a community level, but that of course protects the major parties from having to espouse truly divergent opinions on the real issues.
Like what right amerika has to send it's military into over a hundred sovereign nations, that is how many countries which have been blackmailed, bullied, or bribed into having amerikan intelligence and or military bases, many of which store thermo nuclear devices aimed at people the citizens of the host nation have no dispute with.
Despite the new regime's pretence of stopping extra-ordinary renditions, citizens of foreign nations many of whom have never set foot in amerika, are still being abducted and transferred to secret prisons around the world without trial. That is normal run of the mill 'allowable rendition'.
The Pathan people or as amerikans prefer to call them 'pashtuns' still can't get married with traditional ceremony lest an unmanned drone piloted by some fat assed no hoper just back from the Taco Belle on Creech Air Force base in Nevada decides to loose a few missiles in the general direction of the wedding party.
Nothing has changed with the change of administration in amerika. Sure the fans, supporters of the donkeys are jubilant and the elephant lovers are sulking but that is no different to what happens at any sports match. The results of the game will have about as much influence on the numbers of humans about the world killed by amerikan bombs, guns, and missiles as the result of any other sporting contest would.
The continuation of empire is never up for debate by either party. Both democrats and republicans accept amerika's role as judge jury and executioner without question.
The secretary of defense remains unchanged so as to ensure policies continue on the ground just as they did before.
Obama's 16 month Iraq withdrawal that isn't a withdrawal since 50,000 troops will remain in Iraq after that date was changed to 19 months because one of his generals told him that it needed to be that long even for a pretend withdrawal. Otherwise amerikan troops will not be able to properly supervise the elections in Iraq and if that happened Iraqis might elect someone they wanted rather than someone amerika wants - that is someone who will invoke the section of the SOFA that allows the Iraqis to request the amerikan troops stay longer.

Surely the smart thing for amerika to do for it's own citizens in this time of economic meltdown would be to stop wasting billions on killing other humans and spend the dough on health education and housing? That isn't up for discussion in this 'democracy'. A bit of tinkering around the edges perhaps, but no substantive move away from empire. That would be treason and could get you locked up in the land that claims freedom of speech.

Meanwhile the republicans howl and pretend to oppose the democrats for giving trillions to already fat banksters, safe in the knowledge that the crowd likes that call, but equally sure they would pull a similar rip-off of taxpayers if they were in power. Citizens are still losing their homes, workers are still losing their jobs, long after the first tranche, a mere $750 billion has been devoured by the same Wall St greedies that bankrolled Obama's campaign.

After having studied both the Soviet Communist Party of the 80's and the republican and democrat parties of amerika in the noughties it is safe to say that the USSR communist party had elected members who expressed a much wider range of opinions about the big important issues than all the democrat and republican members of congress in amerika currently do.
The domocracy which amerika pretends to espouse is no different from the highly restricted options of other nations which amerika's leaders criticise for not being democratic.
I say pretend to support democracy because when citizens in other places vote for someone that amerika doesn't like the amerikan government at best ignores the result at worst tries to subvert it. See Haiti, Venezuela and the Hamas victory in the last Palestinian election. Apparently Hamas wasn't kosher because of their charter not accepting the right of Israel to exist, nothing is ever said about the Likud charter which doesn't accept the right of Palestinians to have their own state. Likud has been in government several times yet amerikan 'peace brokers' didn't see a problem with their charter.
And don't say that was shrub - Obama is different - because this adminsitration is still refusing to deal with Hamas who are the elected government even though Israel spitefully imprisoned most of the Hamas MP's. amerika under Obama claims that Abbas, a man elected president just once and whose term expired long ago, (can't have another election cause Abbas would lose for sure) who was ever only the head of state and not the government, is the whole government of Palestine.

Hypocrisy, lies, murder, and theft all reign supreme in washington no matter which party is in power. These travesties are kept in place precisely because whatever system amerika may started off with has been corrupted beyond salvation long ago.

Power politics dictates that the Cuban system of government in place for a mere 50 years will be far more responsive to the needs of it's people than the amerikan system of government is for its citizens, just because the Cuban structure is much newer and therefore less entrenched to suit the wishes of it's political elite.
The amerikan system has become far too corrupt to to anything other than serve it's masters, no matter which team they are on. Check out the farce of Karl Rove's summons to congress, for a classic example of the public role playing both parties use to hoodwink voters while they work together to steal from everyone.