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The Republic of DemRep

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Short essay on the fictional Republic of DemRep which symbolizes the closed spectrum of political leadership, confined to Democrats and Republicans only. The article reveals that this leadership is essentially comprised of armies that invade countries and kill both soldiers and innocent people. The article closes by making it plain that choosing either party is to join an organization that has killed millions. Choose neither.

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In their blind ambition to dominate the world simply because they can, the Dem and Rep armies, like Mafia dons, use violence or the threat of violence to eliminate and intimidate resisters while dispensing favors to collaborators who repay in blind obedience.

 It's armies rampage relentlessly against resource-rich countries and blowback foes, killing soldiers with consciences blinded to the deaths of uncounted innocents cut down in the blitzkrieg crossfire like corncobs in a field.

The Rep army, lately, has killed with greater gusto, but not long ago the Dems bombed to the Stone Age an entire nation, leaving a decade of desolation littered with hundreds of thousands of dead children, victims of disease and hunger.

To secure DemRep's "interests," its death-dealing armies invade or overthrow minor States at will, finding that it may be necessary to kill or torture only a few hundreds of a vastly outnumbered and ill equipped military, plus anyone else who gets in the way.

 But when a nation opposes not only their troops but their sick ideology, DemsReps kill, sometimes by the millions.

Their citizens fund the marauding armies eagerly, succumbing to the call of perverse patriotism pitched to rampant zealotry by irrational fear of the ideological "other," fierce anger toward exceptions to their own God-given exceptionalism, and righteous wrath toward any who question their madness.

 All questioning is treason.

Appeal to "the lesser evil" is appeal to the lesser madness. The not-insane choose neither army.

 

My primary goal now is to persuade the PBS station in Minneapolis, that reaches 4 million homes, to carry the Amy Goodman Democracy Now! program. I was in Seattle to protest the arrest of Lt. Watada. I held a moveon.org showing of an anti-war (more...)
 

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