"The mess we're in today? It's because you voted for scoundrels and cowards who made you feel good."

[calmblueocean]

That's what I'd like to hear in a campaign ad.

It's not Bush's fault. It's your fault. You refused to use your minds, to spend that tiny amount of time it would've taken to reflect on their insults and false promises and let the bare lies shine through. You are dumb enough to think ridicule is truth. You think mocking environmentalists will make global warming disappear. You think you can make a war go away by calling the people who want to end it traitors.

That's why there are thousands more dead soldiers today than there were four years ago.

Thousands more dead than there ever had to be.

It's not Cheney's fault. It's your fault.

Because anyone who makes you feel bad, think a difficult thought, face an ugly truth, is someone you have to destroy.

Pretending that Bush's leaving will change things is a delusion. You're going to keep getting leaders like Bush as long as you keep voting the way you do. The value of your house is going to keep collapsing because you only want to hear the good about free markets, and never the bad. You laughed at the people who would've protected your house. You insulted the people who wanted to save your kids. And that's why you're going to keep getting more dead people.

These cavaliers of yours, Bush and Reagan, are the ones who bankrupted America, who sold your future, and your kids' jobs, and your grandkids' education to Chinese bankers for cheap DVD players and Happy Meal toys coated in lead paint. You threw away the precious rights the Constitution gave you just to make that scared little kid inside you feel like an action hero, but it didn't work, and it never will.

Let us tell you a secret: what you've done to the country is so vast and so vile that Obama can't fix it. Hillary can't fix it. But McCain will only make it worse. He's a brick on the accelerator. A cement block tied around America's ankles. If you don't like what this country has become, then you have to stop listening to the people you've been listening to. You have to stop voting for the scoundrels and cowards who make you feel good. You have to widen the circle of people you care about. You have to work with people you don't like. And learn to find what's likeable about them.

You do that for us, we'll do that for you.

You don't, and the American Dream dies in its sleep.

It's your call.

* * *

Yeah, it wouldn't get any votes, but it would feel good to say.

[DJ13]

1. The voters hate honesty

Look at how many were conned into hating Obama's bitter comment by the MSM for an example.

[MercutioATC]

2. Damn straight!

...you do realize that you have absolutely no future in politics, right?

[TomInTib]

3. Highly Recommended

Not only would it feel good to say, it was great to read.

Tom

[Muttocracy]

4. I want man-on-the-street interviews with former Bush supporters

Ask them (1) So did you ever get to have that beer with Bush? (2) How are those Bush tax cuts working out for you? (3) Feel safer thanks to Iraq? (4) What happened to bin Laden?

[bluetrain]

5. I recently watched a flawed but interesting doc called Anthem which was shot toward

the beginning of Clinton's term. Your post reminded me of it. McGovern is one of the people interviewed in it.


Random!

[truth please]

6. Great Post!

I don't know how many will really care or think of what they've done. It's really scary that it is so simple to get people worked up over b.s. that doesn't matter while all the time having them bend over and take a stiff one where the sun doesn't shine. I know the rest of the world has to wonder why we have so many foolish people.

[peacebird]

7. would that we had politicos honest enough to say THAT...!

beautifully put, calmblueocean!

[grannylib]

8. Wow...that's well said! I'd drop over if a politician were honest

enough to say that. Unfortunately the people stupid enough to have voted for those morons would be too stupid to be anything but defensive and wouldn't change anyway...

[blm]

9. You got MY vote.

.

[gateley]

10. K&R! nt

[abq e streeter]

11. You've said what I've been saying ,but not nearly as well-put as you just did ...K&R

[Asgaya Dihi]

12. Nice post, K&R nt

[chill_wind]

13. J'accuse!

Facilitating Fascism

J'accuse by Zbignew Zingh
copyleft 2006

What kind of doctors has the United States trained who stand by idly while prison guards force-feed prisoners in Guantanamo Bay with plastic pipes shoved down the noses of the shackled and tortured?

What kind of psychologists have we educated who assist the Pentagon inventing new ways to torture men and women, breaking their minds without breaking their skin; who help create government propaganda, plant false news stories, devise “psy-ops” to mislead us all?

What kind of lawyers are these who work for the Department of “Justice”, the “Defense” Department, the Pentagon or the White House, who waste their careers finding legal loop-holes justifying torture, deceit, eavesdropping and imprisonment without charge?

What manner of scientists, hardware and software engineers have we graduated who dedicate their intelligence and creativity to devising deadlier weapons, more secretive ways to snoop, and more innovative ways to kill?

What types of ministers, priests, rabbis, chaplains and reverends are these who mutter empty palliatives to their congregations, run through empty chants and mindless prayers and paeans to Love and Holiness in pursuit of a Life to Come, while today, right now, human carrion burns in their names, and naught do they do at all?

What types of writers, journalists, editors, reporters, actors, what types of men and women are these who slavishly say and write and do as they are told knowing that they spread lies and deception and blather?

Although this nation is led by a few, its actions are facilitated by many. We are the facilitators – the professionals, the educated, the trained – we are the ones whose skills and knowledge keep the whole machinery moving, the cogs oiled, the system operating smoothly. Without the collaboration of the entire class of facilitators, nothing happens. No invasions occur, no bombs drop, no one is tortured, no one is disappeared, no doublespeak is spoken. The minority of “Leaders” do not actually commit hands-on crimes. You will not find Mr. Rumsfeld's, Mr. Cheney's, Mr. Bush's fingerprints at the crime scenes in Iraq any more than you could find Mr. Kissinger's on the casket of Allende. The leaders lead, but their employees, the facilitator classes, do the deeds.

I deny that America is a land of fools. We all know. Everyone of us. What some do not know, they do not want to know. The myth of propaganda is that it imparts falsehoods to the people. The truth of propaganda is that it discovers the falsehoods that the people want to believe, and imparts it to them as they want it.

The hypnotist cannot hypnotize someone who is not willing.

The falsehoods disseminated by the Leaders and the Media are the alibis for the Many doing what they want to do anyway. Propaganda is the cover for the crime: We did not know what we were doing. We were deceived. We were dupes. We were fools. Therefore, we can profit and do what we do with a clear conscience.

J'accuse!

There is no one in the educated world who cannot know the truth if s/he will know it.

The psychologists, lawyers, writers, reporters, ministers, scientists, engineers and doctors who deny the reality of the harm they do as employees and as gladiators-for-hire for this global empire would also deny the nose on their face.

The brightest minds on earth gave us the nuclear bomb... deployed by the dumbest, most venal minds on earth. Science and medicine and the law, in the service of military aggression, do not discover knowledge, heal or seek truth. Rather, they become weapons themselves, no better than cudgels wielded by cavemen. The scientist, doctor, psychologist, chaplain or reporter who sell their services, and their professional oaths, their professional creeds, their professional standards, for the sake of a Job, a Career and Security, do not deserve the name “professionals.” These are not real doctors, psychologists, lawyers or scientists who “research” on behalf of their clients and employers how better to harm people, how more efficiently to interrogate them, how more effectively to kill them, how to sell them more drugs, more lies and more harmful products, how to develop more intrusive technologies to probe private lives. They are prostitutes. They are mice. They are the facilitators of crime. They know it. We know it.

J'accuse!

It is not endless polite protest and demonstrations - as and where permitted - that will stop war and aggression. Nor will socially responsible investing nor voting for Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum nor giving to charity nor meditating nor even publishing trivial little essays like this.

What puts a stop to all is when the majority of the facilitators of fascism – the professionals, the psychologists, lawyers, doctors, writers, reporters, teachers, ministers, priests, rabbis, scientists and engineers decide, at last... if ever... to rebel against the employment that makes them well-salaried galley slaves rowing to the beat of a danse macabre.

Let there be Leaks.

Let there be breaks in the ranks.

Let there be Dissenters.

Let there evolve vertebrate professionals and the evolution of a new facilitator class. One with true professionalism. A facilitator class with class.

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[Hissyspit]

14. I remember that one. Thanks for reposting it.

[krkaufman]

15. Hell, I'd like to see some talking head or Democratic surrogate w/ a political death wish ...

... suggest that old Democratic primary voters aren't necessarily the wondrous creatures they've been painted to be in the media the last few weeks. It's some of the older voters who've been crossing-over and voting Republican for the last 30 years, and are showing their intelligence by threatening to vote for McCain in the general, so I'm A-OK with the youngsters coming in to the Party and having a say.