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It would appear the person who is our President-Elect is a man who despite no political or military experience has somehow managed to become our next Commander in Chief and leader of the free world. He doesn’t seem, and has never seemed, terribly interested in public service of any kind. Even though his only qualification appears to be that he is a billionaire celebrity (if that is a qualification at all), he is scheduled to take office sometime next month.
As I write this, his opponent Hillary Clinton has a two and a half million vote lead which is steadily growing and some states are trying to affect a recount as several computer scientists have discovered some rather disturbing anomalies which seem to reflect massive voter fraud. Stay tuned...
All I know is that we seem to be able to get accurate results in national voting for American Idol and Dancing with the Stars, but can’t quite seem to get this whole national election business squared away. This of course doesn’t keep us from bombing the hell out of other countries who don’t practice democratic principles like we do.
Does the election of this man, who is genuinely unsuited for the job, shows signs of mental illness and has character flaws simply too numerous to enumerate, mean that our country is made up of a bunch of unhinged, knuckle dragging, mouth breathing, anti-intellectual, racist, sexist, xenophobic people with zero sense of spirituality or religiosity, yet a huge sense of religious intolerance? I don’t think so.
It is important to remember more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton and as it turns out by a very wide margin. They just didn’t live in the right places. My home state of California is the most populated state in the Union. So my vote doesn’t count as much as if I lived someplace where very few people wish to reside.
Here in California we have a massive, diverse economic engine which provides jobs for people in all sectors of society. If California was its own country it would have the sixth largest economy in the world. This economic juggernaut is driven by a more equitable taxation system where our billionaires pay their fair share of taxes. Don’t worry they aren’t moving. Have you been to California? These people didn’t become billionaires so that they could live in Nebraska. Yeah, I know, spoken like a true ‘coastal elite’.
In other words, states like Kansas, and even Texas, and all across “middle America” for that matter, who continually vote Republican are states that take in huge amounts of Federal assistance and welfare. This of course means that Californians will continue to pay for people who refuse, for whatever reason, to vote for their own self interests. You don’t have to thank me, but you are welcome nonetheless.
For the first time ever Californians are actually talking about seceding from the United States. This of course will ruffle the feathers of those people who live in the American south. You know the so called ‘Bible belt’. This is where they take flag waving and God very seriously. They once tried to leave America for economic reasons, to preserve their southern heritage and way of life. Sorry that didn’t work out for y’all.
California in 2016 is much better equipped to go it alone than Dixie in 1850. Virtually every kind of crop, including cotton, is grown here. From those rather expensive pecans to lettuce to every kind of food imaginable, we have it all. We even have grapes and we make wine.
We also cultivate young minds. Our state colleges and UC system of higher education are the envy of the world. Yeah, we also manufacture smart people. This is something to which the rest of the country apparently doesn’t attach a particularly high value.
We have the jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena and the brainiacs who drive the information super highway on their way to work in the so called Silicon Valley.
A California secession would bring Dumbfuckistan to its knees.
So the big question is do we take Washington and Oregon with us on this journey? Of course we do. They have Nike, Microsoft, Boeing, Starbucks, lumber and perhaps, most importantly, water. We are going to need that shit.
Anyway, the important thing is we have a real cool flag. It has the image of a grizzly bear walking to the west. We don’t have grizzlies anymore as we hunted them into extinction a long time ago, but America...since the bear’s hind quarters are facing in your direction, you can kiss its ass.
America, when you are ready to grow the fuck up, I’ll take you back. I love you. I know you are not all that bad, just a little frustrated that’s all and I get that, believe me I do. However, that silly little temper tantrum you threw a few Tuesdays ago was uncalled for.
I guess I shouldn’t be so hard on you America. I just thought this election would be more of a landslide. In fact it may have been just that. I urge you to read a fine piece by a great investigative journalist (remember those guys) Greg Palast. He has written and will continue to write on this subject. Check out www.gregpalast.com .
Remember this isn’t about personalities, or even ideologies, it is about our Democracy and self rule. If we choose to abdicate that, then we get what we deserve. Very few humans in the history of this planet have lived with the kind of freedoms we have enjoyed here in America. For us to turn our back on that is inexcusable. To let one side or the other steal an election and then sit back and say, ‘Gee Dave, do you really think we should be talking politics? I don’t like it when people talk about politics. It makes me uncomfortable.’ Well to that I say, ‘I’m uncomfortable with a right wing coup that just stole an election.’
As it turned out, they used the tried and true yet effective strategy. They get everybody scared and focused on boogie men like flag burners, homosexuals, invading Mexican rapists and murderers as well as religious extremists while they run off with this country’s most valuable commodity, our democracy.
They will back a Brinks’ truck up to our national treasury while we discuss who can use which restrooms. They did it before at the end of the Bush reign of terror. Surely you remember that brazen act of treason. It was called the Wall Street bailout. I also would like you to remember what happened to people who protested this crime. We called it the “Occupy Wall Street” movement. They called it a great chance to beat people’s skulls in with nightsticks. We have always suspected, and they confirmed, who our local law enforcement officials work for...and it ain’t you and me brother.
I have a feeling this new regime won’t wait to pillage the treasury until they have one foot out the door.
These people, who have seized control of our government, do not represent the values and ideas regarding public policy of the vast majority of Americans. They know this, which is why we have everything from gerrymandered Congressional districts to flat out voter fraud and suppression.
To be perfectly frank, they don’t really have any values with which to disagree. It is all a smoke screen to keep us arguing with one another over race, gender equality, gay marriage and whatever else keeps us occupied long enough that they can wreck the economy for you and me while skating out of town and to off shore bank accounts with our money.
The obvious example of this is our President-Elect’s constant campaign mantra, “We are going to build a wall. A huge wall...” He has not uttered one word about his huge wall since the election. Not one word. Does anybody anywhere need any more evidence on what is going on around here? We need to keep our eye on the ball and thwart this coup. Once a fascist dictator takes power it is difficult to have them removed.
- David Mac
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