WHY I DID NOT VOTE – THE STATE OF DISUNION
Posted in Michael O'McCarthy's Blog, Main Blog (All Posts) on January 28th, 2008 8:55 pm by Michael O'Mccarthy
Michael O’McCarthy
Recommendations to the Democratic Party “Agents of Change” Obama and Edwards.
By Michael O’McCarthy
Tonight the President of the United States lied once again to the American people and to the world.
We live not in a time of “concern” about our economy, we do not live in a time success, and we do not live in a time of victory over the agents of terror. We live in a time economic and ecological rape, a time of treason and our country is represented by war criminals. Our nation is held the hostage of dysfunction, disunity and political cowardice.
The Republican Party is the party of this liar – and its apparent heirs continue the lie. We seem once again to be the prisoners of the Democrats to offer a change from this intolerable state. And thus, last Saturday in my resident state came the time to vote. I chose not to and the reason is simple: Neither, Clinton, Obama or Edwards represented progressive change.
Secondly, this “democratic process” is not only rigged by those who have stolen it, bought it and subverted it for their own selfish purpose, but has been negated by the alienated, disaffected masses who simply will no longer participate in the process. Whether by deliberate act of political refusal or passive disinterest or substantive ignorance, they are not moved to play an active part in their political future.
The one “progressive” alternative to the state controlled by Democrats and Republicans was Dennis Kucinich. His platform for change was rational, humane and doable – if there was a Camelot minus the apparent need for a White Knight, it could be found in his vision. Yet his percent of any primary or caucus was negligible. That was before the ruling class machine shut him down, banning him from debate after debate. Thus, the once sparkling, yet daunted, quirky prince that he is too succumbed to passing his baton to one of the Party favorites, Barack Obama. Practical electoral politics or not, it tainted his banner and disaffected those who believe in his campaign for progressive change.
History tells me that what we are about to get in 2008 is more of the same since the “election” of John F. Kennedy in 1960. That is, in my opinion, when the military-industrial-corporate state began to consolidate its rule over this nation. Coming into play after WWII the US became a gluttonous consumer nation; simultaneously it expanded its imperialistic range worldwide. Secondly, the political machines of both the Republican and Democratic parties ramped up Red Scare witch hunts that deterred any “progressive” political alternative by branding any and all dissenting opinion or movements either communist or offshoots of world communism. Nothing has changed: the US foreign policy is economic imperialism with a militarist interventionist arm. Its domestic policy is one of corporate exploitation, greed and deliberate social repression.
Today Clinton, Obama and Edwards represent the moderate wing of the corporate state’s ruling government machine and by their proposals and practice promise to deliver more of the same. History is my primer.
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January 28th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Well Mikey don’t vote than. But when it comes around that you don’t like who got into the White House. Don’t Bitch either. I will say one thing. You need to get your sorry but out of the 60’s and lay off the cheap dope because what you are spewing here is the same crap that you were spewing in the 60’s and look were it got you there. Oh and just to clue you in on something. You are your hippy friends weren’t the reason we got out of Nam. It was Congress and it had been from the start. Since the US had that war won clear back in 69 and the congress was the one that told the troops to stop. That is why Nam went on for as long as it did.
February 6th, 2008 at 10:32 am
anon- i thought that this was just a little info on mike here that you might get a little kick out of. i found this in Counter punch oct. 19 of 2002
by MICHAEL O’McCARTHY
My name is Michael O and I am a recovered alcoholic. what surprises me is that he is a “recovered” alcoholic i was not aware that anyone could be recovered i was always told that one is always in the recovering stage.