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Only the formal albeit superficial guises of a republic obscure the reality that our government no longer represents the best interests of the citizens. Some would have it that fascism is now the de facto force of our governance.
The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to rule against the Florida's court decision to further examine the validity of that state's managed presidential vote in 2000 supports this perspective, as does the Court's recent decision -- overturning 100 plus years of precedent -- that corporations are citizen-persons in the eyes of the Constitution and can invest limitless millions in elections to persuade the vote.
Also supportive of the proposition is the fact that the emergence of an "opposition" majority of both houses of Congress did not alter one whit the War of Lies in the Middle East, nor did it publicly question its instigators. Further, the election of an "opposition" president in 2008 proved only to reinforce the notion that the slaughter in the Middle East must continue, no -- be escalated to protect the 8,000 mile distant "Homeland," a new coinage for America that the Bush degenerates lifted out of the Nazi propaganda of the 1930's and 40's.
In all, the argument that we have lost all three of the pillars of the republic appears to have merit.
Perhaps the theater of fascism disguised as democracy has been no more brilliantly performed than in the charade of debate over a national healthcare system for America, our nation which now ranks 37 (!) in quality of medical care for its citizens among theworld's family of nations.
From the get-go, we were indulgently but curtly instructed by our congressional "leaders" that a Single-Payer system (common to the other 36 national systems superior to ours) was "off the table" (that's au current congressional-sleaze for "fuck you all") and that the real debate would be about something called the Public- Option.
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"Hmm," perhaps some pondered, "What in the world is that?" What we subsequently learned, of course, was that this new boy in the arena of political jargon was a poor excuse for even a stalking-horse of Single-Payer, and then even the Public Option may well fall victim to the wont of private interests, and -- even more wildly exploitive -- citizens might actually be required to purchase private medical insurance or be fined for nonconformance to a newly considered federal law that in actuality guaranteed increased income and profits to Big Private Insurance.
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What is the state of this contrived madness now? Well, as this citizen gropes to comprehend this bizarrerie, apparently there is a proposed bill consisting of some 2000-plus pages (which no one person has actually read in full nor comprehends) actually on-the-table somewhere in the political wilderness between the desks and the rhetoric of the Senate Majority Leader and the Madam Speaker of the House, while Big Pharma, Big Insurance, the Banksters, the Daddy Warbucks, ad nauseam, celebrate their slick abortion of Single-Payer while promoting the mongoloid Public-Option, which itself will doubtfully survive the cesarean option.
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What will WE do about all this? Talk, write, certainly complain, unless we're completely still bedazzled by slogans, flaggies, bumper stickers, and narrow political partisanship of zero validity. We'll in all probability -- as for the last nine years, some would say thirty years -- not do anything that would make an actual difference. Instead -- yes, perhaps grumpily -- simply continue to allow things happening TO us.
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And there's the pity: the longer we wait, the more drastic and bloody the necessary and inevitable correction will be.
