blah blah blah political rant

another of my longstanding beliefs is that significant political reform can be accomplished only one way in this country. the old fashioned way. 18th century style. old school. bloody, popular, armed revolution. my good friend TJ once said: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." there is no difference between the two major parties and everyone knows it. and there's no mandate in the constitution that there must be "two major parties", but everyone pretends not to know this. hence the term "bipartison". i cringe whenever i hear it.

we've built up a phony system of lies and invented words to help convince ourselves that we're running our country. we're not. systems are in place to prevent us from making any significant change in the administration of our country. what's more, systems are in place to prevent us from noticing this.

bah. i sound like the typical acid-head college hippie who thinks he knows everything and can see what's really going on just because he smoked some weed one day. that's why i rarely (if ever) talk about my true political views, even though i think about them often.

it's an intractable problem. armed revolution in this country, in this day and age, is hopeless. a private army has no hope of organizing, much less defeating the second best military in the world. short of some external catastrophic event (asteroid, aliens, another al qaeda strike, return of jesus) i see little hope for our great experiment here. (of the possible catastrophic events, I think "return of jesus" or "aliens" are the best. settling the "god question" once and for all would go a long way toward uniting the country (and the world) enough to change the focus from insignificant crap like whether bush wears a wire or whether a rich guy like kerry speaks for the poor and on to real issues like the long term survival of our species on this planet. then again, maybe only "return of jesus" would do it, i doubt even an alien invasion would be enough to rend the faith based reality of True Believers, especially if the aliens are also christians.)

sure, maybe (maybe) the dems are the lesser of two evils. maybe they'll bring us closer to human rights and international cooperation and all that crap, but they're still not going to deliver the nation from the divide-and-conquer approach that the people in charge (you know, the illuminati, the shadow government, cigarette smoking man, <wink wink>) have taken to distract and subdue us. the only real difference between reps and dems is the ratio of bread to circuses.

what's that? i live in a naive utopian dream world, where everyone lives in peace and harmony and nobody disagrees and there aren't any bad people or crazy people or people with bombs and guns?

i've got news for you: utopia isn't a dream, it's a necessity. in the not-as-long-as-you-might-think term, it's the only thing that will keep us from blowing ourselves up, evaporating our atmosphere, slaughtering our neighbors, and unleashing bioweapons upon members of our own species.

now i really sound like a hippie. i'm not, look at the hair! but i'll sum up this rant with a quote by a guy i've never heard of, a quote that quite nicely summarizes whatever point i may think i've got:

"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers ... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born." --Francois Fenelon

what have we done lately in this country to repay our debt to the human race?