WHEN ALL HOPE IS ABANDONED

We all have those moments of crushing despair where we know something we had hoped in is no longer possible. For some, like a rich couple, it may be matriculating their child into some prestegious private prep school. But when the child approaches the age of admittance, perhaps seven, it becomes apparent that he is just too mentally lacking to be up to the work load. He just doesn't have the "right stuff" and you realize they're no use. On today's soap opera Samantha Brady, who has spent most of her time as a rather frompy unwed mother of several children, she was faced with evidence of the violent death of her youngest daughter. Her estranged husband planted the evidence for cruel motives of his own. His actions are perhaps the purest form of evil known to man. They say you never get over the death of a child. And then we have the death of your Christian faith. For me that was all but assured after a phone call with "The Asshole from El Paso" that left me almost physically ill when the reverand accused me of being "Obsessive" when it came to pursuing my Christian faith. Now liberals out there have to contend with a "virtual" death. Obama did not suffer assasenation but hope in him died nontheless. Just read earlier postings in this blog such as "No Quarter" or else read a bunch of postings in "For the Record". Clearly the writing was on the wall six months ago. I read the writing but somehow didn't believe it. You try reasoning and prodding and cajoling and any other means to somehow "wake this President up" from this idiological slumber he's been in and you realize that it's utterly useless. Obama was not taken out by the Mob, but he nonetheless has been rendered politically useless all the same. There remains nothing to do except to look around for a more worthy candidate to run in 2012, preferably on a third party ticket.

Clearly it is time for the American people to get serious about running a candidate on a third party ticket. The two political parties are corporate parties A and B. Evan Bayh has decided to quit the senate but people argue that he isn't changing what he basically does. He's just changing offices. He is in bed up to his eyeballs with corporate interests. It's seemingly impossible to over-state the extent to which lobbyests control American politics. The Nation magazine the other day talked about how lobbyests control the media. The so called fourth estate is owned, lock, stock, and barrel by corporate interests such as Arthur Daniel Midland, and General Electric. These networks, even supposedly liberal ones like MSNBC routinely put up apologists on news interviews for their special interest views constantly defending the status quo. It would seem that the phrase "conflict of interest" has vanished from everyone's vocabulary. But aside from outlets like The Nation, the voice of the left is surprisingly muted in this country compared to what it was 25 years ago. This was back before conservatives had taken over talk radio and the media still gave you an honist reporting of the evening news. I have cited example after example, such as the way these Networks handle demonstrations of the left verses ones on the right. If ever there was a time for "thinking outside the box" this is it. Today people have taken to attacking such things as wind power generation, much prefering a massive return to Nuclear as the way to go. They cite statistics from 1985 talking about all the wind power turbines that have been abandoned. Other people don't like bullet trains. They say things like "Nobody rides the train any more". Of course these people say they want jobs but when President Obama talks about a program for "Green jobs" they are against that, too. Many on the right, and I have talked to them, act as though corporate taxes have never been higher in this country and that is why we are losing our domestic industries. Did you know corporate taxes are higher than they have ever been before? No? That's because it is a bold face lie. One of so many bold faced lies that people on the right tell. But the answer to all these problems after you've read enough blogs like this is to go out and get active and do it quickly. There is no time to lose. Remember that Franklin Roosevelt actually picked up congressional seats for his party in the 1934 off year elections. If he did it so can we. I know that Obama is no FDR. He's proven that over and over too many times to count. But we can incorporate FDR's methods in spelling out the issues to the people. Nobody in 1934 would have trusted a republican right wing group that called itself a "grass roots movement". The big difference between now and then was that in 1934 we had a President who wasn't afraid to lead. We don't have that now. There is a gigantic VOID in the Executive branch of government and we have to overcome that and if possible, endeavor to do the President's job for him. Are we up to that?