If elections could change anything in this country, they would be declared unconstitutional, undemocratic and officially abolished.
After Obama, it should be clear to anyone even only slightly politically conscious that all that change may do, will be only cosmetic, never substantial.
Among the political cosmetics we are allowed to choose are a higher degree of skin pigmentation when it comes to the selection of the president, or the replacement of the traditional presidential Y chromosome with an additional X chromosome.
Although such changes ought to be considered trivial and of no political value at all, they are in this country officially embraced as revolutionary — however, only to forego the true revolutions necessary to implement peace and justice on every level of society.
Occasionally there may be an anti-pollution act to prevent starving hope from dying completely. Starved hope is essential to the illusion of democracy.
Had Obama kept only half of his campaign promises, he would have met John F. Kennedy’s fate. He is smart enough to know this instinctively. His survival instinct trumps universal reason.
There is no other way to explain why someone of his intellectual caliber would act against reason and the people to listen to his corporate donors from the insurance, oil or nuclear industry.
It is common sense that only with universal health care and free education a people can be considered wealthy. Yet this country is unable to approach these goals with minimal steps.
Despite Obama’s failures, Bush was by far the better puppet. He was much easier to manipulate, without a conscience and without any principles whatsoever. His stupidity allowed him to lie with a straight face and ignore or “misremember” what was said a minute before.
Here is the only chance left to the Republican candidates, as they compete for the nomination with the only asset left to them: the complete decadence and desolation of their total demoralization. Martin Luther King, Jr. called this fatal state “spiritual death.”
We have long reached the point of history where there is dire need for an incorruptible, political saint who stands by the principles of peace and justice religiously in order to change the fatal course of destruction for the promise of a continued future — and who does so in the face of likely death.
John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Robert F. Kennedy or Fred Hampton serve as silent and silenced warning signs not to mess with the political mafia.
To circumvent lucky — and consequently, tragic — accidents of history, systemic and fraudulent provisions are set in place to protect the status quo. Too many assassinations would dispel the illusion of democracy.
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Hence, media, courts, commissions and financial lobbyists carefully exclude the more principled and hence threatening candidates from debates, caucuses and primaries, and select candidates the people are allowed to “elect” to ensure that elections remain effectively abolished.
Should this manipulation threaten to go wrong, the vote will then be rigged electronically, as happened in 2004. The disenfranchisement of millions, most of them blacks and ex-prisoners, remains a tradition fixed in the system.
The ultimate safeguard will always be the Supreme Court, as the 2000 elections taught us, when the justices appointed George W. Bush to the presidency after it was clear he had lost Florida.
To change this, the Occupy Movement must grow into an Arab Spring whose revolution won’t be co-opted or stolen. All, involved or uninvolved, must heed the dire warning of the late John F. Kennedy:
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
