THE EASIEST WAY TO PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY, TO PROMOTE OUR VALUES, OF RIGHTS, PROTECTIONS, LIBERTIES, FREEDOMS, PRIVILEGES, RIGHT TO PRIVACY, DEFENDANTS RIGHTS, AND OTHER, CHERISHED, CONCEPTS, THAT WE VALUE IN OUR COUNTRY, THAT FEW COUNTRIES, HAVE, TASTED, OR EXPERIENCED, AS CITIZENS, IS TO VOTE THE RIGHT PERSONS INTO OFFICE!
WE HAVE ALL STOOD BY AND WITNESSED, WITH THE STROKE OF A PEN, SOME FUCKING EXECUTIVE ORDER, COMING OUT OF THIS WHITE HOUSE, THAT, LIMITS, DISINTEGRATES, AND ELIMINATES, THIS OR THAT, FREEDOM AND PROTECTION, FROM TAXES, TO IMMIGRATION, VIOLATING OUR VERY SENSES OF DECENCY, AND POLICY! AND CONSTITUTIONAL OATHS, AND VIOLATIONS!
TRUMP TRUSTS, NOBODY IN THE WHITE HOUSE? THAT IS BECAUSE, HIS STAFF, IS LOYAL TO THE CONSTITUTION AND THE COUNTRY, NOT, LOYAL TO THE PRESIDENT, THAT IS NOT THE OATH THEY TOOK, NOR THEIR JOB! THE PRO WRESTLER, TV ANNOUNCER, AND, BODY SLAMMER, DOESN'T GET, EVEN THE BASICS OF GOVERNMENT, THAT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IS NOT "HIS" PRIVATE ATTORNEY! MICHAEL COHEN, YES, OR WAS, SESSIONS, NO! NOW, THE COURTS, CONGRESS, NEED TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE, FROM SHITTY, POLICIES, AND PROGRAMS, THAT, ARE DATING BACK TO WHEN, THE PATRIOT ACT, TRIED TO TAKE OVER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION . . . WHY DO YOU THINK MY SISTER'S STINKY ASS IS SITTING BEHIND TRUMP? THEY FEAR ME, AND USE HER TO PLAY ME!
IN THE BOOK I AM READING, "EMPIRE OF ILLUSION: THE END OF LITERACY AND THE TRIUMPH OF SPECTACLE" BY, CHRIS HEDGES, PULITZER PRIZE WINNER, COPYRIGHTED, 2009 . . . HE LOOKS AT THE PRO WRESTLING MODEL, OF WHICH OUR "SO-CALLED" PRESIDENT, WAS A PART OF THAT WORLD
. . . AND MUCH, LIKE THAT, FANTASY, ACTORS, DEVIANCE, STAGING, FAKE LIVES AND MANTRAS, OF "WHO CARES, WE WON" ARE COMMON, PRO WRESTLING, GOALS . . . WE DON'T CARE, HOW WE GOT HERE, NOR WHO WE WON, THE REAL, ISSUE IS THE FACT THAT WE WON!
WE SEE THIS ALL THE TIME IN TV, ON REALITY SHOWS, LIKE SURVIVOR, AND THE BACHELOR OR BACHELORHOOD, OR IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS . . . BACK STAB, VOTE SOMEONE OFF THE SET OR GAME, DO WHATEVER IT TAKES, NOT LIMITS, AS IN THE "SMILING FASCIST" WITH NO EXCEPTIONS! "WE WON! RIGHT?" . . . OR DID WE? IF THE WHOLE COUNTRY, FAILS, THEN, DID WE WIN? TRUMP'S RALLIES ARE MUCH AKIN TO PRO WRESTLING CROWDS, CHANTING FOR THE UNDERDOG, TO STAND UP TO THE MENACE OR BULLY, BUT IN THE ARENA OF TRUMP SUPPORTERS, SAME CROWDS AS THE PRO WRESTLING CROWD, THERE IS A SIMILAR, FRENZIED, CHANTING, MUCH, LIKE THE ROMAN COLISEUM, AND THE BLOODY GAME OF ANCIENT ROME, THE BLOOD LUST . . . DO WE WANT TO BE MERELY ENTERTAINED? OR DO WE WANT A PRESIDENT WHO TAKES THE BUSINESS OF THE COUNTRY, SERIOUSLY? TRUMP AND HIS CRONIES, ARE INSULATED FROM HIS BAD POLICIES AND DICTATES! BUT IS FLORIDA OR PUERTO RICO? BE IN THE DEVASTATION OF A HURRICANE OF A FLOOD, OR AN EARTHQUAKE, AND THE SABER RATTLING, BULLY, MAY NOT BE WHO YOU WANT, WHEN YOU ARE IN NEED OF COMPASSION, AND IN NEED OF THE VERY BASICS OF LIFE, FOOD, WATER AND SHELTER!
TRUMP'S BASE, ACTS AS IF, FLORIDA AND PUERTO RICO, OR VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE, OR JOURNALISTS, GOING TO GET PAPERWORK TO GET MARRIED IN THEIR RELIGION, WHO HAVE MILDLY, CRITICIZED THEIR GOVERNMENT, ARE ALL, JUST PROPS IN HIS GAME, OR THE RICH, GAME, AND NONE OF THEM ARE REPUBLICANS . . . OR THE PEOPLE, HURT BY THE AMERICAN DREAM TAX REFORM, GIVING TONS OF NEW BREAKS TO THE WEALTHY, HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BURDEN OF TAXING THE MIDDLE CLASS, AND POOR, TO MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE, IN PAYING FOR THE PRESIDENTS OF WAR, OR THE COPS, OR THE MILITARY OR THE NEW SHINY, JETS, TANKS, AND SHIPS!
YOU DUMB-FUCK, REPUBLICANS, ARE TAX PAYERS, DIP SHITS!
YOUR OWN, FORMER PRESIDENTS, LINCOLN, AND EISENHOWER, HAVE FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE, WARNED AGAINST, BUILDING UP THE MILITARY WAR COMPLEX, GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR MONEY AND JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, THE GOP WAY . . . FIX THE ECONOMY, GO TO WAR!
HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION, TRANSPORTATION TO GET TO JOBS OR SCHOOL, UTILITIES, PRISON REFORM, CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES, LOWER TAXES FOR ALL, CIVIL RIGHTS, FOR ALL, AS IN JUSTICE FOR ALL, LOWERING SEXUAL ASSAULT AND RAPE, ALSO, SAVES TAX PAYERS MONEY, STOPPING JUVENILE DELINQUENCY, PUTTING MONEY INTO SINGLE MOMS, LIKE, SARAH PALIN'S DAUGHTER, BRISTOL, WITH TWO KIDS OUT OF WEDLOCK!
THESE ARE REPUBLICAN ISSUES TOO!
DO YOU WANT YOU KIDS TO GO TO WAR, OR COLLEGE?
YOUR VOTE WILL DETERMINE YOUR RESPONSE!
JOBS FOR GREEN ENERGY OR JOBS FOR PRISONS AND GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS, AND ARMS?
IT'S YOUR CHOICE, IT IS YOUR MEAL!
YOU WILL BE FORCED TO EAT IT!
This it the cult of distraction, as Rojek points out, masks the real disintegration of culture. It conceals the meaninglessness and the emptiness of our own lives. It seduces us to engage in initiative consumption. It deflects the moral questions arising from mounting social injustice, growing inequalities, costly imperial wars, economic collapse, and political corruption. The wild pursuit of status and wealth has destroyed our souls and our economy. Families live in sprawling mansions financial with mortgages they can no longer repay. Consumers recklessly rang up Coach handbags and Manolo Blahnik shoes on credit cards because they seemed to confer a sense of identity and merit. Our favorite hobby, besides television, used to be, until reality hit us like a tsunami, shopping. Shopping used to be the compensation for spending five days a week in tiny cubicles. American workers are ground down by corporations that have disempowered them, and used them, and have now discarded them.
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The cultural embrace of illusion, and the celebrity culture that has risen up around it, have accompanied a growing system of casino capitalism, with its complicated and unregulated deals of turning debt into magical assets, to create fictional wealth for us, and vast wealth for the elite. Corporations, behind the smoke screen, have ruthlessly dismantled and destroyed our manufacturing base and impoverished our working class. The free market became our god and government was taken hostage by corprotations, the same corporations that entice us daily with illusions through the mass media, the entertainment industry, and popular culture.
THE ELDERLY VOTE, AT ABOUT 80% . . . THEY ARE ON THEIR WAY OUT!
MILLENNIALS, YOU ARE LOOKING AT ANOTHER, 60 OR 70 YEARS!
THE FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS!
MSNBC, CHRIS MATTHEWS, SAT DOWN WITH, FORMER, PRESIDENT, JIMMY CARTER, A QUIET, MAN, KNOW AS A PEANUT FARMER, DEMOCRAT, BUT HE WAS ALSO, A NUCLEAR ENGINEER, WHO, STARTED TO RUN FOR PUBLIC OFFICE, THEN, SURPRISED THE NATION, AND WON THE PRESIDENCY!
AT THE TIME, MID-SEVENTIES, I WAS A NEWLY WED, PUTTING HUBBY THROUGH COLLEGE, WITH, YOUNG CHILDREN, AND NO TIME TO FOLLOW POLITICS, SO I KNEW, LITTLE OF PRESIDENT CARTER, A SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN, OTHER THAN THE AMAZING, PEACE TREATY BETWEEN, EGYPT AND ISRAEL! IT WAS FINALLY, FINALLY, PRESIDENT CARTER, APPEALING TO ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER, MENACHEM BEGIN, DOING THE BIDDING FOR, THE PM'S OWN GRAND CHILDREN, THAT, CHANGED, THIS HARD HEARTED MAN'S HEART, WHO, MERELY PICKED UP A PEN, AND SIGNED THE DOTTED LINE, THAT CHANGED MIDDLE EAST PEACE OR CHANCE FOR PEACE, FOREVER!
PRESIDENT CARTER, PUSHED FOR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, FOR CLIMATE CONTROL, MANY DEREGULATIONS OF VARIOUS INDUSTRIES, TO JUMP START THE ECONOMY, AND ON AND ON . . . THINGS WERE HEATING UP IN IRAN, AND HOSTAGES WERE HELD RANSOM, FOR WHAT ABOUT 440 DAYS, WHILE REAGAN WAS RUNNING AGAINST THE INCUMBENT, ONLY AGREEING TO RELEASE THEM, ON ELECTION DAY, AFTER, CARTER LOST TO REAGAN.
THE MAN, IN CONSIDERATION FOR ECOMOMIC CONDITONS OF THE TIME, GAS PRICES, AND SOCIAL UNREST, SCALED DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE POMP AND CEREMONIES, HE WAS INSTRUMENTAL, IN FIGHTING AND STANDING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS . . . TAKE THE TOTAL OPPOSITE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP, ON THIS KHASHOGGI MURDER, HE WAS FIRM IN HIS RESOLVE, THAT HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS WOULD NOT, BE TOLERATED IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR KIND, FROM FOREIGN POWERS. HE DIDN'T MAKE EXCUSES FOR THEIR VIOLATIONS, AND IT PROBABLY COST HIM THE ELECTIONS, AFTER THE CIA PUT THE SHAW OF IRAN INTO OFFICE, WITH A STUDENT REVOLT, DUE TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, WITH THE AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI, LATER BEING ELECTED, FROM THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT . . . BASICALLY, CONTROLLING OUR ELECTIONS, USING THE HOSTAGES TO DO IT! WITH PEACE BETWEEN, EGYPT AND ISRAEL, IRAN WAS WORRIED ABOUT, THE BALANCE OF POWER IN THE MID-EAST AND MADE THE PEACE LOVING PRESIDENT WHO BROKERED THE DEAL, PAY WITH THE ELECTION AND PRESIDENCY!
PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER, HAS DONE MORE, POST-PRESIDENT, TO HELP THE WORLD, HIS COMMUNITY, AND THE COUNTRY, EVEN PREVENTING FUTURE WARS, THROUGH HIS PEACE EFFORTS, THAN ANY OTHER PRESIDENT!
HE TEACHES SUNDAY SCHOOL, IN HIS LOCAL CHURCH, STILL WORKS WITH "HABITATE FOR HUMANITY" AND WHEN, ASKED IF HE WAS, DOING IT FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES, HE SAID, NO, HE WAS JUST TRYING TO GIVE BACK! HE WAS AND IS, CONCERNED ABOUT HOUSING FOR THE POOR.
THE CARTER FOUNDATION, HE AND FORMER FIRST LADY, ROSALYN CARTER, RUN TOGETHER, HAS INSPIRED, THE BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION, GOING WORLDWIDE ON THEIR CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS AND INFLUENCE . . . THERE WAS SOME PARASITIC IMPURITY IN THE WATER, MAKING PEOPLE IN AFRICA, I THINK, SICK, AND AFTER THE CARTERS GOT INVOLVED, THE CASES WENT FROM, I THINK, 300,000 CASES, DOWN TO 30!
THE MAN IS SIMPLY AMAZING.
SOB.
IT MATTERS WHO'S IN THE ROOM, AND WHO'S IN THE WHITE HOUSE!
THANK, YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, PRESIDENT CARTER AND FIRST LADY CARTER!
OUR WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE OF YOU!
VOTE!