I can't wrap my head around it, but I am as much at fault for Iraq
as Presinents Bush and his buddies. So are you. Sometimes, it makes me
want to fucking kill myself, but I step back from the brink and look at
the big picture and remember that if I kill myself, I don't get to
watch any more pornographies. As a country, as citizens, as humans, we
have all failed to organize properly to prevent the problems we face,
and we lack the organization to fix the problems we have made for
ourselves by allowing ourselves to be governed in the way in which we
are governed. What? I said we have failed to organize properly to
prevent the problems we face, and that we also lack the organization to
fix the problems we have made for ourselves by allowing ourselves to be
governed in the way in which we are governed.
It's not entirely true that you and I are equally culpable to
Presinents Bush and his crack team of ethnic cleansers, because we
don't make the decisions at the top. But, we also fail to hold anyone
accountable for the actions of our leaders. It's all a failure of
leadership, but we put our leaders where they are, and it's our job to
also watch our leaders carefully. So, it's a failure of us, too.
It's not a stretch to say that the current Iraq situation is fairly
unpopular at the street level in this country (I'm in America, BTW, for
all you Googlers). What we need is an anti-war leadership to step in
and tear the fucking house down. We won't get that. To quote Ricky Roma, "it is not a world of men, Machine." Well, not a world of women, either.
Where are the leaders? Let's break it down, community by community,
of available groups of organized people in the U.S. of A. who would be
able to influence our current elected government, as they are often
wont to do.
The anti-war community: There's an anti-war community?
The black community: I would imagine that the black community is, on
the whole, against the Iraq stuff. I cannot speak for any single member
of that community, as I am bone-white and of European dissent (ha ha!),
but I'm willing to hazard a guess. The problem with the black community
is priorities. As in, Iraq war 3%, Don Imus 97%. Nuff said.
The Troops: Support the troops! Really, do. If you know a troop,
don't ever let them pay for a drink in your town again. To be honest,
the troops do carry a lot of water in this situation. They could stop
the war tomorrow, if they had the proper leadership moving them in that
direction. Look at Ehren Watada. What the military would need is
150,000 Ehren Watadas
waking up tomorrow and saying they won't support the mission anymore.
Yeah, impossible. That's like imagining that tomorrow I'd wake up and
suddenly women would want to have a sex on me. Debate leaders in
certain sectors technically could call on troops to stop
supporting the mission. However, I have trouble imagining any such
individual making any such call having any sort of future as a living
member of society. I won't comment in such a fashion for those very
reasons.
The Latino community: again, bigger fish to fry. They're very much
focused on converting 12+ million of their members from criminals by
name, to "valued guest workers." You fight the power, amigos!
The feminist community: LOL
The religious community: praying for the armageddon, willing to
extinguish actual human beings in the name of the most holy, and
definitely pointing the wrong way on the Great Commission, e.g. KILL EM
ALL!
Your local community leaders: LOL
The Congress: Bush's pecker deep in dey throat y'all
Nudists: No real impact on global events here, sorry.
Corporate leaders: it is rarely in the interest of any stakeholder
in a given company to want their company to take positions on matters
of public policy. Likewise for any of that given company's employees,
so enjoy the deafening silence from almost everyone gainfully employed
by a major corporation in this entire country! Woo! Go freedom! FUCK
FUCK FUCK! Go freedom!
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