exists within the ambition and passionate pursuit of political change.
If you've got power, it's likely you wanted that power, and as such, took it.
The spectacle of swallowing fire on a busy intersection to distract the crowd of spectators from having to witness the frozen evening sweat on the beard of a Midwestern hobo that is the current American election has a large chunk of the worlds population- including myself- on its toes, waiting for the naive doctors diagnoses- is the cancer of Republican market economics terminal? Or can the equally lethal but well-intentioned chemo therapy of Barack Obama really kill enough cells to probabilistically give America (and, consequently, the world) a chance to survive?
It's likely that, should Mitt Romney gain office, the cancer will be left unchecked to fester in itself and spread to other parts of the global body even more so than it already has. However, it would be ridiculous to assume that another 4-years of medical blunders in an attempt to bring the sickness under control would do much for the American body part, which fancy's itself the brain of the world, but is more likely the hungry stomach of a nihilist surrendered to the post-modern world- "fuck off, I'll eat these shitty chips and smoke this cigarette if I want to. It's not like it matters; we all end up stiff and hard in the cold, careless soil anyways."
All the individuals and activists of genuine sympathy and hope turned away from America in disgust and disgruntled submission years ago.
"He's just a fucking asshole, and until he figures that out, there's nothing anyone else can do for him."
The Presidential debates, although interesting in a context synonymous to the thrills one shakes from sports, are dangerous ramblings in themselves as each contestant simply spits their rhetoric on the dying middle-class, completely ignores the lower, and neglects to mention what's really important* in preference to telling the junkies that their next high is safe and sound, despite the fact that it's the addictive substances that caused the cancer in the first place: coal, oil, gas, and money. You won't cure a hangover by drinking more alcohol. You'll just keep waking up with a headache wondering what the fuck happened last night.
It seems the nicotine patch of ethanol is really doing little to control the craving.
Many of the problems of America- and yes, hence, the world- seem self-manufactured for the sake of maintaining the problem and sustaining the melodrama. In the case of competence, the conspiracy theorists may be right about the whole Illuminati-Rothschild banker stuff; although things are rarely what they seem on either extreme of the spectrum. It's only by looking between both sides of the story that the truth can even begin to show its faded silhouette through the fog machine you refuse to get off your couch to turn off.
In the case of incompetence, the self-manufactured melodrama may simply be the psychosis of a dying narcissist unwilling to accept his mortality.
However, in the case of the looming election, Noam Chomsky may be right: "The Republican organization today is extremely dangerous, not just to this country, but to the world. It’s worth expending some effort to prevent their rise to power, without sowing illusions about the Democratic alternatives."
But in the case of America, as was stated before, "He's just a fucking asshole, and until he figures that out, there's nothing anyone else can do for him."
*climate change, Occupy Wall Street, common sense in the fact that devices used to brutally maim and murder should not be in the hands of citizens, let alone ones trained and paid for by the state itself to march into someone else's house and rob them blind right after a session of brutal rape and murder of men, women, and children; and in fact, if a semblance of sanity existed within America (which seems unlikely now, as the tumor has done so much damage to the brain that the country's mental faculties have been irreversibly destroyed to the point of schizophrenia**) everyone would have just laughed at their silly fellow citizens attempts to dress-up and pretend they're somehow the king of the castle.
**SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA:
-Hallucinations ("Barack Obama is a true change for America," "If Mitt Romney gains office, he's going to make everything better," "I visited outer space the other day. What the fuck are they talking about, borders don't exist? I saw the borders true and clear. America shone like Jesus ascending to heaven!")
-Hearing voices ("In God we trust," "don't worry, you're doing the right thing stepping into this countries affairs and murdering thousands," "Jesus spoke to me the other day," "We are a nation of God!")
-Delusions, often bizarre ("I truly believe in the book of Mormon," "America is the greatest country on Earth because God is on our side," "This is an American century!") or persecutory in nature ("Islam and the Arab world are really out to get us," "Russia is out to get us," "Every attack on America is a terrorist attack," "Israel is our best friend because they know what it's like to be bullied by their parents and thus take out their anger and fear on the poor helpless kid across the street to the point that he practically gives up on life and commits suicide alone in his bedroom after everybody decided to do no more than politely tell the bully to stop being disrespectful. We get you, Israel, Britain was a dick to us too, giving us all that land she took from the neighbors , free food, free tea, free housing.. as soon as we turned 19, Britain said, "I'm sorry, but you're going to have to start paying room and board," and we were all like, "oh, fuck you bitch," so we yelled at her, kicked her in the face and out of the house, and didn't return her calls for 150 years.")
-Disorganized thinking and speech ("When America votes, America always votes for peace. That's why they're going to vote for me, Mitt Romney. Over the course of my term in office, I'm going to add $461 billion to the military's budget so they can afford more weapons and machines of murder. So remember, America: a vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for peace," "On my first month in office I, Barack Obama, will shut down Guantanamo Bay," "Mr. Obama, we just need you to sign here to officially enact the NDAA.")
-There is often an observable pattern of emotional difficulty, such as a lack of responsiveness ("Neither candidate has mentioned 'Occupy' even once. Are they avoiding the question? Or is the entire political structure of this country just mentally retarded?" "We all need to band together and do something about climate change. Is everyone in?.. America? Hello? Hey.. America? I'm talking to you, you do know it's common social convention to give at least some sort of response.")
-Outbursts of seemingly irrational violence, both verbal and physical in nature (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya... the list goes on and on and on, worthy of a post in itself)
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