The financial collapse of America

It’s finally here. The time we’ve all dreaded. Most of us knew it would come down to this. The draconian lies of the Republican Party, and the Machiavellian ideals of the Democrats. Either party is a vote for business. To paraphrase Noam Chomsky, there are not two parties in America to vote for. There is one: the business party. Both say they have differences of opinion, but both are simply factions to one party: business. To serve the interest of the ruling class, hasn’t that always been what power is about? From the days of “democracy” in Ancient Greece, where only the ruling class could vote, to the Roman Republic, whose history has so many parallels with America right now many enlightened people call New York City “New Rome,” and Americans the “New Romans.” Fast forward through the dark ages and we have the church, structured in such a way as to serve the interest of the ruling papacy. No one had the authority to interpret scripture until the Protestant Reformation.  We have the “divine right of kings,” where nobility, moreover, the monarch, was no less than Jesus in vicar. The peasants were kept stupid and were robbed of their labor, land, and rights. Feudalism is not different than Capitalism. The CEOs and Presidents and government officials are simply the new nobility. And the working class is simply peasants, robbed for their time, lives, health, humanity, freedom, love, dignity. Only now we have the illusion that we’re free to vote. The Republican Party has done a fine job at concealing the fact that labor unions fight for health care, decent pay, shorter days, and a guaranteed job. But a vote for them is a vote for the off-shoring of jobs, of tax-breaks for the super rich, of people like the Koch brothers who have so much money and are so disgustingly libertarian they’d rather there be no social safety net and America be anarchistic, but to the point of chaos, not ideologically. And now, instead of compromising with the Democrats, they want to let America collapse because they don’t want tax increases on corporations or the mega-rich.  Gotta love them Republicans, whose voter base is highly religious, which is one of the illusions that keep them in power. Jesus wouldn’t have stood for privatized tyranny, so why should the right-wing base? And to the left, with such grand plans as NAFTA, simply another form of neo-colonialism. And so, as we stand here on the eve of financial collapse, we should all be wondering, when is enough? When have the people had enough? When will the people wake from their apathetic slumbers, as MLK once said? When will something truly equitable come along to replace this illusion of a two party system, a system which has America cornered, in check, with very little hope to get out of it? Ask yourself, when the **** have you had enough? Get out there and protest! It’s your constitutional right to do so! It’s your responsibility as an American! Tell Congress that the only anti-Americanism is their support of corporate, privatized tyranny here at home and abroad and soon enough the whole thing is going to fall. Then we’ll have to deal with China.