This Was the Species that Was

The mother needs a rest. Mother Earth needs a long rest with no people on her. —Spalding Gray, who later opted to do his part thereto

What with the way Hillary Clinton née Iron Rodham and Barracks Osama [sic] have been trying to out-Republican the Republicans lately with the frequent public flaunting of their rabid bellicosity—yea, even unto nuclear annihilation of "our enemies"—even as the public finds increasing fault with our national warmongering, I have to wonder (apart from wondering why nobody else seems to be wondering) what's going on in the federal gubmt game.

Ok, so that's being coy. It took me maybe 30 seconds of wondering to come to a conclusion, the only Occam's razor-satisfying conclusion I can find: These miserable motherfuckers don't even give a shit anymore who actually gets voted into the presidency. Or rather, they may give a champagne grape-sized turd about it, but they are coming to realize that it is far less important to appeal to U.S. voters than to the scumbag criminals in charge of the world's most powerful corporations—the war-making and war-sustaining corporations; the oil- and other energy-mongering corporations; and when we get around to the appropriate political rhetoric re health care, also the pharmaceutical, hospital-owning, and medical insurance corporations—who can and will pump sufficient money their way to ensure their bid for the presidency is viable. They are not Democrats any longer; nor are they Republicans. There is NO SUCH DISTINCTION. They are the tools and the benefactors of the corporations who use them to ensure continued and increased profitability, to the sheer, exclusionless exclusion of any other factor, like ethics or human rights or human lives or human quality of life.

In short, they're tired of the other party having all the fun. And since there's really no way they're going to reverse the trend of corporate ownership of our representative gubmt, even if they were inclined to so try in the first place, they might as well play the game just as well as the GOPs. Yes, of course we'll invade more countries that pose no immediate threat to us. Yes of course we'll consider tactical nuclear weapons (which, BTW, we can actually pronounce!). Of course of course of course.

Some of my dearest friends act like the Democrats will win and then things will be all better. I think that's the biggest load of horseshit I've ever heard. Nothing will make this better. We are the Roman empire (in particular, Mel Brooks's Senate hollering "FUCK THE POOR!"); we are Louis Quatorze. We may or may not have revolution in our lifetimes, but there's really no way one would succeed anyway. As mindless, slavishly devoted as countless Middle Easterners are to Allah, we are every bit as devoted to the defense of capital. We the corporations have 99.9 percent of the world's firepower. We the people (quaint little phrase, innit?) are wholly owned subsidiaries. We are sacks of chemicals of no value or consequence to the owners of this planet except for their chance to annex the little we own to their fortunes.

We are doomed.