Wednesday, January 23, 2008
The song remains the same
I'd forgotten he was running, but Duncan Hunter apparently dropped out of the presidential race several days ago. He has endorsed Mike Huckabee, which makes sense; both of them are nutzo lunatic fundy dominionists.
As for Fred Thompson, he was never exactly running. More like tottering along on his walker frame. I have no idea why he bothered. Anyway, his lazy, somnambulant candidacy, which nobody wanted anyway except the media, has finally fizzled out with a whimper.
Which still leaves the rethug field crowded with rich old pasty-white guys. It's almost as if George Bush Junior has finally succumbed to mental meltdown and developed multiple personality disorder, and each personality is running to succeed him as president. I'm not sure "succeed" is the right word there, after Junior's dismal record of abject failure. But anyway, Huckabee is the manic religious element of Junior, the chimp God talks to. McCain is the crazed warmonger, Giuliani is the sleazy crony capitalist, Romney is the vacuous stuffed suit with nothing inside, and so on. And Ron Paul is in the race because it's a constitutional requirement that we have a loon from Texas who panders to white supremacists and neonazi skinheads.
What I find fascinating is how all the rethug candidates mindlessly intone the mantra of change without ever mentioning what we need a change from. Isn't the fuzzy promise of change an admission that untramelled conservatism, with its monopoly on political and judicial power, has been a ghastly, unmitigated disaster? Does anyone with the IQ of a sea cucumber imagine that any rethug candidate can really bring change, let alone change for the better?
As for Clinton, I grow ever more sickened by her Karl Rove tactics and dirty tricks. If she's elected, she sure as hell isn't going to change anything. We'll still have endless war, endless evisceration of the Constitution, and endless unaccountable rule by the megacorporate elite. Why isn't the Dem establishment lifting a finger to roll back Junior's destruction of our civil liberties? Because they fondly imagine they'll get to exercise those illegal "unitary executive" powers themselves.
No privileged millionaire insider, regardless of skin color, is going to change the system. Change must come from within, as the saying goes. And change must come from below, from the grass roots upwards.
Do we really want change? How badly?
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