Of course, cartoonist and commentator Ted Rall is a fellow Generation X'er in the United States of Amnesia; only a Gen X'er -- who, unlike the baby boomers and the Generation Y'ers, has some sense of recent history -- could have produced this 'toon...
Wake me in January 2009
(unless it's President Billary)
I haven't been blogging lately because ... why?
Can anything surprise us anymore? "President" Bush in essence pardons felon "Scooter" Libby? That's a shock? From stealing the 2000 presidential election to starting the bogus Vietraq War, the members of the Bush regime have always been about ... the members of the Bush regime. We Americans are just the fucking idiots who just let them get away with mass murder and the theft of billions and billions of our tax dollars. Oh, and we also just let them do things that will make us Americans more likely, not less likely, to be the targets of terrorist acts in the future while the members of the Bush regime claim that they're valiantly fighting a "war on terror" (and certainly not war profiteering! Because that would be treason!).
What's there to write about anymore, at least where American politics is concerned? What isn't been there, done that where the Bush regime is concerned?
It's just a fucking waiting game now. Things in the United States of America aren't going to change for the better until the Repugnicans are out of power entirely, because even just one branch of the federal government under Repugnican control is enough to contaminate and drag down the entire nation, and things especially aren't going to improve until a bunch of people, the powers that be, finally die -- the baby boomers, a bunch of stupid white men of baby-boomer age or older (most of them Repugnicans), the pope (who recently claimed that the Catholic Church is the one and only true church, which sure makes Pope Palpatine sound an awful lot like those "Islamofascists" who believe that their religion is the one and only true religion), et. al.
Jerry Falwell's trip to hell was a good start, but we need a lot more deaths of people over the age of about 50 right about now. The powers that be (and most of them are over the age of about 50) have no intention of leaving the world in better shape than it was when they got it; their only goal is to suck up as much of our resources as they can while they still can. All of us will be better of when they are six feet under (even they will).
I say wake me in January 2009, when there's a Democrat in the White House -- I'd rather that a real liberal be in the White House, but hey, I'm realistic; I know that the best that I'm going to get in our pay-to-play "democracy" is a Democrat -- but if it's Billary Clinton, let me keep snoozing, because a President Billary will mean just four or eight more years of national sleepwalking.
I haven't given a penny to any of the Democratic presidential wannabes because none of them floats my boat. (Well, OK, I like Dennis Kucinich, but what a waste of money that would be.)
So unless Al Gore jumps into the fray -- and since he largely got us into this fucking mess, he should be the one to help dig us out of it -- I don't plan to do much for Election 2008 except vote (and if the Democratic candidate indeed is Billary Clinton and Ralph Nader runs again, I'll probably vote for him again, just as I did in 2000) and maybe blog.
I italicize "maybe" because, in case you couldn't tell, I'm just not excited about the United States of America's political prospects right now, and I'm sick and fucking tired of having banged my fucking head against the fucking wall since late 2000, when I was one of the way-too-tiny minority of Americans who were appalled that our democracy was clubbed to death like a baby harp seal, its ruby-red blood spilling onto the blinding white snow, by the election-stealing members of BushCheneyCorp.
More than six years later, a good chunk of Americans still don't see anything all that wrong. Which makes me say, "Fuck it!" Those who so casually allow their democracy to die don't deserve democracy.
I don't know how others, such as activist Cindy Sheehan (who just turned 50, so she gets to live), go on. One of the few nuggets of good news as of late is that Sheehan at least tentatively plans to challenge Speaker of the House Nancy "Impeachment Is Off the Table" Pelosi for Pelosi's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sheehan at one time was thinking of challenging DINO (Democrat-in-name-only) Dianne Feinstein (whom I lovingly think of as Mrs. Benedict Lieberman) for Feinstein's U.S. Senate seat for California in 2006, but ultimately decided against it, to my deep disappointment (I ended up voting for the Green Party candidate).
If I lived in Pelosi's district I'd definitely vote for Sheehan. I can't think of a more courageous, driven person than she. She has faced an incredible amount of abuse from abject fucking morons who are Americans only in the dictionary-definition sense of the word and yet she still presses on. Hell, I can barely work up enough motivation just to fucking blog, and this woman is gearing up to run for the U.S. House of Representatives.
I don't think that there are enough Cindy Sheehans, though, to keep the United States from sinking. I'm reading a pretty good book right now that is titled Are We Rome? My answer to that question is a resounding Hell fucking YES!
My reality is that I, a member of Generation X, am caught between two rather shitty generations: the baby boomers, who care only about their own welfare while they are still alive, and who are the first generation in the history of the United States of America that didn't give a flying fuck about leaving things in better shape for the generations that follow them; and Generation Y, many of whom actually are wonderful people (by contrast, only a handful of baby boomers shouldn't be made into Soylent Green or be forced to report to Carousel), but who, being the first American generation raised almost entirely by corporations (we can call them the Pepsi Generation...), don't know enough about the true spirit of American democracy to be able to adequately carry the torch.
Why is this? Because the baby boomers never understood the true spirit of American democracy themselves. They were spoiled rotten by the "Greatest Generation"; the boomers were brought up in post-war materialism and materialism is all that they know, and they learned only the outward observances and appearances of democracy. They never internalized the spirit of democracy, but simply mimicked from their parents what democracy looks like.
The boomers have refused to allow my generation to have any power whatsofucking ever -- the number of my fellow Gen X'ers in positions of any great power in the United States is, compared to the number of baby boomers in power, tiny -- and so the bright shining examples of democracy that the Gen Y'ers have had have been people like George W. Bush and Dick Fucking Cheney.*
We Generation X'ers have called "slackers," but the fact of the matter is that we're just emotionally exhausted from having been fucked up the ass our entire lives (with ground glass as lube) by the baby boomers -- even by those baby boomers who were supposed to help us, not to treat us as competitors, even our own parents and our own teachers. Keep someone down long enough, and after a while he or she will no longer even care to try to get up.
"Slacker"? My entire adult life I've watched the boomers suck up everything that's worth having and give my generation the shitty end of the stick. My entire adult life I've had to work more for much less than my baby-boomer parents, when they were my age, were able to have for less work.
I have been mildly** amused that the boomers' avariciousness has been such that everything in the United States has gone to shit before all of the boomers have died. I think that the motherfuckers were pretty self-assured that things would go to complete, total and utter shit right after all of them finally kicked off, but now, many if not most of them are shitting their pants thinking about the fact that they'll be shitting their pants soon and no one will be there to wipe their asses for them.*** (As I said: Soylent Green! Carousel!)
At any rate, I want the members of Generation Y to try to understand why we Gen X'ers have given the fuck up: While we Gen X'ers were growing up, we were taught all kinds of things that turned out to be nothing but a pack of total fucking lies, such as that we have democracy in the United States of America (yet the "president" of the United States in 2000 was selected not by the voters, but by the members of the U.S. Supreme Court who had been appointed by Repugnican presidents), that we have liberty and justice for all (but if you're a felonious member of the Bush regime, you'll never see the insides of a prison cell), that the United States of America is the most morally supreme nation on the planet (forget about those thousands upon thousands of Iraqi civilians whom we have given the ultimate "liberation" since March 2003, based upon the treasonous lies of our unelected "president" and his henchpeople), and that if we Gen X'ers worked hard and finished college, we would have great careers and lives ahead of us (the fact of the matter is that all that college did for us was to give us worthless diplomas and student-loan debt, and that the baby boomers refuse to fucking retire, but continue to hold onto all of the jobs that are worth having with death grips, like president-picking Supreme Court justices who have their plum jobs for life).
The only time that my generation (the "overeducated underclass," as Ted Rall aptly calls us) will ever be able to come to power is when the majority of the fucking baby boomers have finally kicked off -- but by the time that finally happens, they should have run the United States of America quite thoroughly into the ground, having made sure that if they couldn't take it with them, they'd make damn sure that no one else could enjoy it, either.
So try to understand if I kind of don't really even feel like blogging anymore.
In the meantime, while the New Roman Empire continues to crumble, you might as well go catch a movie. Michael Moore's "Sicko" is pretty good. If you don't want to be reminded about how our empire is crumbling right before our very eyes, however -- which "Sicko" will do -- then I recommend the excellent "Ratatouille."
*Which reminds me of this 'toon by Ted Rall (the poor soldier, of course, would be a Gen Y'er who was "educated" on such important subjects as democracy and morality and history and logic by baby boomers):
**Mildly because, of course, my generation has to follow the baby boomers' parade and scoop up all of the horse shit.
***On this note, I used to be a nurse, but because baby-boomer greed destroyed the American health care system, as wonderfully outlined in Michael Moore's "Sicko," I left nursing in the late 1990s, and the baby boomers can shit and piss and drool all over themselves without my help.
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