My simple minded view of this country, and planet, I call home: the uber-haves are looking to fuck over the rest of us poor, stupid, unlucky 99 percenters.
My simple minded view of those we have elected to rule us: if you are not screaming to stop the fucking over, you are perpetrating the crime. It's a binary state of being.
My simple minded solution to correct the situation: fuck if I know, but maybe, just maybe, talking about our real problems will slowly move us down the path to real solutions.
Enough is enough.
The debt debate is but the most recent example of our Electeds collective idiocy and distraction.
We have a jobs problem not a debt problem.
Just like we have a pollution problem not an energy supply problem.
Just like we have a poverty and education problem, not a crime problem.
Just like we have imperialism problem not a terror problem.
Just like we have an insurance company problem, not a health care cost problem.
This whole country is set up all wrong. How do I know? I look at my bank statement every month and it tells me so. It tells me I pay $1500 a month to insure my family, then fight to get the Ins. Co to pay the doctor my kid just saw. It tells me my wife and fork over $800 a month to Chase Bank for student loans. It tells me my food bill has gone up every month, while my pantry is stocked with items that come in smaller sizes (by weight of course - thanks to those magnificent bastards the Marketers!).
How do I know? I look at the people I work with, all "professionals" with advanced degrees, SLAVING away for just enough to be perpetually stuck on the hamster wheel of government orchestrated privately held debt-servitude. 80 hour weeks just to pay the loans, the rent, the health insurance, the food bill. Savings? What's that?
We pay more, get less. Work harder, have less security. Our Electeds let the rightwing idiotmachine attack attack attack - and then enable the idiotmachine's framing and ideas and discombobulated passions.
This isn't about electing more and better of anything: its about the survival of the 99 percenters as a viable people who are a rung above nasty, brutish and short.
My furious anger will no longer allow me to chose the better of two options. It forces me to demand: are any of you 1 Percenters begging for my vote clamoring to make the choices that rule my life better? If not, then fuck you.
Fuck you with a primary challenger. Fuck you with a new party. Fuck you with new media.
But most importantly: Fuck You.
The politics of this country is broken. The daily cheerleading of "Our side won!" "No OUR SIDE won!" would bore me to tears if my life was a shit-shambling disaster waiting to happen because of it. Fuck your side, and especially fuck "mine". Its ONE side: the 1 Percenter side, that fucks all of us over through their inane "debates" over nothing.
Every bridge I drive over is ready to collapse. Every gas pipeline I walk by is ready to explode. Every school my children will go to will be underfunded, understaffed, and overwhelmed. Every levy is ready to burst. Every damn is cracking. Our infrastructure is collapsing around us, ready to maim murder and massacre us, and we are treated to pathetic whining about "debt ceilings."
Fuck you.
Fuck every Washington "compromise" - codespeak for "do the 1 Percenters get everything or only mostly everything."
In fact, DOUBLE Fuck you for your compromises.
This country is disintegrating before my eyes - it is not time for compromise, it is time for holding childish idiots accountable. And fuck you for being too weak willed, too desperate for fuck knows what, to do what real leadership should do: FUCKING LEAD.
I have been radicalized by this do-nothing political class. I am no longer beholden to the incremental bullshit bargain "Well, at least the Dems are a tiny bit less worse than the GOPers."
FUCK incrementalism, that cowardly hole psudeo-leaders dive into at the first sign of a strong-minded pollster.
Bring me solutions or go the fuck home. Bring the fight to the idiots, and CALL THEM IDIOTS, or go the fuck home.
This is the season for finding, funding and forwarding challengers to the 1 Percenters of both parties who have contentedly sat by these last four decades while the rest us have worked harder, gotten less, and seen any semblance of security get tossed aside for the benefit of some hedge fund assholes.
I tried disengaging from our politics, and all it did was let the place fall to further shit around me. So I'm climbing back into it with one simple thought motivated by my furious anger at those who orchestrated, enabled and cheered the collapse:
FUCK YOU - I'm coming after you with my vote.