As the November Elections Draw Closer:
By
Frank Pitz
OpEdNews.com
- As the November elections draw closer, liberal Democratic angst is
becoming a regular daily “true confessions” kind of sideshow
both in print and internet venues.
While beating their breasts and uttering a fervent “mea
culpa” the Dems continue to excoriate themselves for their seeming
lack of direction. With
much hand wringing and whining Democratic pundits and wannabes have
fallen into a seemingly perpetual Rodney Dangerfield state of mind.
Perusing lefty magazines like “In These Times,”
“The Progressive,” “The Nation,” etc.
I marvel at the content and tone of the letters section as
well as many of the articles that purport to offer sure-fire
solutions to get the Dems back to the top of the heap.
Move left – move right – move center; attack Bush,
don’t attack Bush; stay the course, alter the course – for
Christ’s sake what a dizzying array of convictions.
The problem (for this socialist progressive) in getting the
Dems back to the top of the heap is that heap is nothing more than a
pile of slime constructed of corporate money, which has contaminated
the entire Democratic process in this country.
The Bush crowd is firmly ensconced at the top of that
accumulation of feces, groveling contentedly while mucking for their
corporate masters – this is where the Dems want to be?
Judging from the size of the corporate dollars flowing into
the Kerry campaign – although most of this is just good old
fashioned “hedging your bets” – the Dems don’t seem to mind
lolling about in some good old manure.
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- Nothing
of substance is forthcoming from the Democratic camp for the simple
reason that they have ceded the high ground to Bush and company vis-à-vis
their continually being on the defensive concerning stupid
television ads. Thirty-second
sound
- bytes
have robbed this campaign of any significance as far as issues go,
and it is most assuredly contributing to the “dumbing down” of
the American voter. The
media loves the circus atmosphere as they reap the financial rewards
of an election carried out by competing ad agencies.
The media focus is on advertising and the groups behind the
message, as well as whether or not the communication is true or
false. This presidential
campaign has been driven to the lowest, asinine denominator, of
“he lies,” “he lies.” The
American public by virtue of their infatuation with instant now is less issue oriented and more
media-short-attention-span mesmerized.
We have become a culture addicted to the fast moving news
ticker at the bottom of the screen.
It moves in a short (10-12 word sentences) storyboard of
supposed newsworthy events requiring no intellectual capacity and no
thought.
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- Bush is
responsible for millions of jobs lost over the past three plus
years. Bush is
responsible for the deaths of over 1,000 American men and women in
an illegal war. Bush is
responsible for adding thousands more to the ranks of uninsured, as
well as an exorbitant increase in health care.
America has no credibility – or respect – within the
international community because of Bush.
Bush has added thousands of people to the poverty rolls, and
has gutted education for America’s children.
Bush has raped and tortured the American people just as sure
as his defense department neocons raped and tortured at the prison
known as Abu Ghraib. No
connection between Saddam and bin Laden, no WMD, no biological
agents, no terrorists ready to spring from Iraq and threaten the
U.S. Though it must be
said that Bush is rapidly changing that scenario by virtue of his
crusade against Islam.
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- These are
the true life and death issues which should concern every American;
these are the issues which need to be hammered home day after
agonizing day until we enter the voting booth.
But do the Dems possess the cojones to shout this from the
rooftops of this country? The
answer my friend is blowing in the wind of corporate financing and
corporate thinking. Play
it safe, don’t rock the boat, talk about television ads and ticker
tape news. Forget about
people dying for lack of decent health care, forget about people
living in cardboard boxes, and forget about people losing their
retirement savings. See
no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Up with the corporate bosses and down with overtime for the
American worker. Enshrine
Kenny-Boy Lay, and entomb John Q. Public.
Why talk of real issues when one has Arnold Schwarzenegger
and his tirades about “girlie
men” to enthrall the stupid masses?
George W. Bush is a pariah and as this writer has espoused
for years: the apathetic American public deserve what they get.
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- Peace,
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- Frank
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- Frank Pitz
fpitz(at)comcast.net is a 66 year
old iconoclast, writer, poet, cynic - and on top of all that a
Buddhist as well. He lives year-round in Pompano Beach,
Florida, is an alumnus of the glorious "cut and paste"
newspaper days - Lancaster Independent Press, has also worked for a
living from bricklayer, to truckdriver to Housing and Urban
Development Professional. He's a grant writer, and has been
known to run a political campaign on occasion.
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