"Except we in the U.S., in the Empire, are left with a vision that is not limited to a fictional kingdom, king, or politicians. For the U.S. is nothing if not an imperialist state, "so far in blood that sin will pluck on sin," and the idea of "peace" is akin to the Duke of Gloucester's "winter of discontent."
What do people do with the contempt hurled against them?
It is here when a fellow citizens offers a soliloquy. My younger cat let me know someone was standing outside my door. I leave the computer to see through the peephole a man, a white man, not a tenant but with a clipboard and he is writing as he looks at my door. I open it, and he begins his soliloquy as if speaking to a camera just to the side of my face. "Gov. Walker-- Then "registered to vote-- and see here "Barrett-- And he pauses. He offers me a flyer with Tim Barrett, the alternative!
The poster quickly returns to the clipboard when I do not reach out for the flyer. What's the problem here? But he cannot say this and looks around, starts to move away. Not the electoral process, again! Come or go? And me: Do I close my door?
He does not want to know.
As an American, it is a good chance he believes in the narrative, weaned, as most American citizens are, on patriotic, flag-waving loyalty to an image of democracy, and produced 24/7 by corporate-owned media.
But as a liberal, he will not want war either. He is a die-hard Democrat, his work, saving democracy against the treachery of the Republicans--and never mind that I feel, at this moment, in this democracy, that the Gestapo has appeared at my door, and the surveillance apparatus enhanced by the current president at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C., prevents me from declaring my determination to see true democracy rise from the grassroots citizenry in America.
He will not want drones flying over Afghanistan or Pakistan or the Midwest, deployed by local police working with Homeland Security and the CIA, but he supports the Democrats who along with the Republicans who support the private towers that house to profit from discarded humanity.
He will recognize the unquenchable greed of the corporate-capitalist rulers, but believe there are good guys and gals in blue who can work the system for him and his fellow "little people." While all the while ignoring how blue hats and red hats crisscross the congressional aisle and that only the greenbacks in the hats matter and those greenbacks are not for the "little people."
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