“Play Ball”
The Great American Ruling Class Game
Jerry Brown, heir apparent to his Democrat Party elder would-be presidential candidate and father, Governor Pat Brown once told me that American politics is like the great American past time, baseball.“They got their turn at bat, (the Republicans,) and now it’s ours.” I believe Jerry Brown knew then, what we all ought to know by now: The rich love their sport on a level very, very few of the rest of us get to play. While they love golf, polo and the stock market, what they truly love is playing with people. Us!Thus, oh contraire Hillary, who said today,“Some people think elections are a game — it’s about who’s up and who’s down,” she said. “It’s about our country’s future, it’s about our kids’ future — it’s really about all of us together.”Then she took her turn and nailed it,“It’s not easy, it’s not easy, and I couldn’t do it if I just didn’t passionately believe it was the right thing to do,” she said. “I have so many opportunities for [from] this country. I don’t want to see us all fall back[wards],” she said, her voice breaking in the last phrase. “This is very personal for me,” she said to supportive applause from the small gathering…”I believe every word she said. It is very personal for her; she has “so many opportunities for this country.”Hillary is experiencing a melt down. It’s a real disappointment not to be able to lead her team to their turn at bat, akin to the millionaire New York Yankees beating the Boston Red Socks in the next playoffs.
As for “opportunities for this country?” Well, so did our gift from Jesus, George Bush. So did Bill Clinton. And they turned out not to be much of an opportunity for the poor and the working-middle classes.
Now so do Mitt Romney, Huckabee, McCain and Giuliana. And so does Edwards and Obama.
The ruling class always has Great Ideas for what to do with OUR country. The history from Washington to the Decider has just had some really grand ideas. From genocide to gender apartheid; from a slave nation to union busting; to more wars of aggression and imperial control than can be itemized here; to more US military bases throughout the world and more prisons and prisoners than any other nation on the planet.
Its time America woke up and realized who these professional bought and paid for corporate managers work for: It ain’t us. Forget the Republicans. Aside from the faux populism of the Huckster Elmer Gantry wannabe Huckabee, they are all touting a corporate state line that makes McCain’s imperial thousand-year plan for Iraq sound sane.
It’s those three “agents of change” who want that next turn at bat with a fervor.
In the process they co-conspired, by commission and omission, to killed off the one agent of change who represented the best interest of that menage that is called “the people,” Dennis Kucinich. If for no other reason than not boycotting any debate that barred Kucinich, they ought to be figuratively tarred and feathered and run off the campaign trail. Agents of change? If killing democracy by increments is their path to being “agents of change” then they have more in common with fascists than democrats.
Aside from belittling his personal views and apparent eccentricities, like Bush and his Patriot Act is destroying the Constitution, the Democratic Party and the corporate media stripped Kucinich of his First Amendment to freely express his views via the people’s own airways. Obama who has a pharmaceutical whore as his NH vice chair while shaking his head and saying “not true” on national television; Edwards who sucks money from hedge funds and invites the insurance companies to participate in OUR health insurance; and Clinton? Her corporate donor, lobbying list is longer than Bill’s wagging finger when denying that he “had sex with THAT woman!”
If we don’t get it now, when you next hear, “you’re out” it won’t be in a ball park, (unless Bush pulls a Pinochet “time out” and we are renditioned a into Chile-like stadium-arrest just before the November election.) and it will be US, the American people, who will be out of a country we can ever call our own again.
How’s that for mixed CIA-sport metaphor: This September 2008, will be 35 years since the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende and his murder by the Chilean dictator Pinochet and the CIA. That was work of another president who “had so many opportunities for this country,” (and Allende’s,) Richard Milhouse Nixon and his hatchet murder henchman, Henry, ” lets Nuke North Vietnam” Kissinger, who said lightly,
“I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people.”
Aside from the fact that the Allende government wasn’t communist, but democratic socialist, there is only one kind of “opportunity” these clots favor: it’s their brand of opportunity.
Ah democracy. We must love a top down form of government with elections based on fear and illusion because otherwise how could we Americans fall for the parade that is coming to town in the 2008 versions of Elmer Gantry and The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars And Motor Kings.
