an exercise in true itching
by Shaun Grub
Roving reporter Shaun Grub here over this morning's cup o' brew. Whilst skimming through my daily stream, I came upon this ad put up by MoveOn, which is a grass-roots organization, so let's try to move on ourselves from this confusing claptrap while I conduct some fast and loose riffing over what it all means to me.
First off, why in the Hell are they even televising this trial? In a nutshell, it's because while federal courtrooms generally don't allow cameras, many state courtrooms do, and in this case, the state of Georgia believes allowing cameras helps to preserve transparency. Fair enough.
What really irks me about this is that the state of our national divisiveness has now reached such a critical mass that "bipartisanship" appears to no longer be on the menu. It seems useless to even ask if anyone reading this remembers how it was years ago when some democrats voted for republican bills and some republicans voted for democrat bills, but that's the way things were in what appeared to be a more fair and balanced world. But was it, really? Allow me to suggest that this deadlock stalemate is a perfectly natural and inevitable outcome for our experimental form of governing. So we have merely reached that imminent stage of the evolution of our democratic republic. Third party, anyone?
Today, democrats and republicans seem to have become ultimate enemies, fighting each other in a death-lock of mortal combat, each party vying for supremacy in order to take back or maintain control of our country (that they each have irreconcilable views about). Let this sink in for a minute while I finish my coffee.
Okay, I'm back, theoretically wired, except that's my natural state, so now I'm justifyingly hyperwired enough to continue this impromptu essay. My point being, just a cursory glance at this sort of paid ad streaming through the MetaVerse [FaceBook, et al] pleading for us everyday Americans to "help run ads to combat MAGA lies" suggests, to me at least, that vested corporate interests in the United States of America circa 2023 [meaning "just three years post-pandemic"] have taken such a stranglehold on the everyday American's wallet, that it got me to thinking. It seems to me more and more every day that we are sadly living in the midst of a craven new world that's inexorably culling the poor and disenfranchised while invariably strengthening and enlivening the one percent.
It must be due to the fact that our ordinary way of conducting politics has been fully subsumed by profiteering. I mean, what else could it be? It seems to me that we have long ago abandoned conducting our political affairs with earnest integrity. The very notion of "civic duty" seems to have nearly withered altogether from the vine. Somehow, after all the dust from the rapid succession of previous storms hasn't settled fully, but on occasion thins enough to let us catch a glimpse through all the haze, it seems the answer lies half shrouded before us all, that is if you're straining your eyes and mind to pay enough attention.
If you ask me, our two major political factions in this deadlock have simply merged sufficiently to the point where profiteering motivates enough of their respective careers. It must be as simple as that. Which leaves us with a question that should be asked by us all:
"How much longer will we, the American public, continue to allow ourselves to be fleeced dry of our money and blood to these revenant undead politicians?" In other words: "When will WE, THE PEOPLE take back our country from these con-artists proliferating in our government?"
Only YOU and I can STOP
these Corporate Vampires
from draining our lifeblood dry!
SO BE SURE TO VOTE! IN OUR
FORTHCOMING ELECTIONS
BEFORE OUR COUNTRY
IS STOLEN FROM US ALL
BY SELF-SERVING
POLITICIANS
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