OLMEK
09-22-2004, 04:08 PM
I must express how badly we need to get George Bush out of the White House. Not that I'm real impressed with Kerry, mind you. In my opinion, one's as bad as the other and they are both devils cut from pretty much the same cloth. Both are slickly sophisticated when it comes to playing the media game, as we have all witnessed from this latest round of sniveling propaganda. All these covert plantings of malicious stories designed to sully the names of the candidates is embarrassing.
These are two grown men acting like two little boys on the playground, arguing inanity and irrelevancy back and forth. Kerry has crafted this ultra-patriotic, Lincoln-like persona of the war hero with a progressive outlook. To me, the war hero part is some real bull****. I see someone who signed himself up to travel halfway around the world to assist in the genocide of a race of poor people of color, in the name of a dominating, oppressive government regime.
I've said before that my pops went to Viet Nam. Not by any choice of his own. He was ordered to go. He had no family connections to get him deferred. He went mostly out of fear of what would happen to him if he refused. My father spent more than a year in heavy combat and received no formal recognition for his service. He was only freed from his bonded servitude after being wounded while ducking from sniper fire. He came home and managed to live the rest of his life NOT being a homeless junkie, or a mentally crippled shell of his former self. He didn't become an alcoholic family abuser. He didn't become one of those casualties of war who couldn't move on with his life. He went on to work and live and raise a family.
I kind of think that Kerry's shameless parading of his time in Viet Nam is vile. Even if he truly was the heroic figure that his ad campaign portrays him to be, it is not something that should be processed and packaged and shoved down the throats of the world community. It's an insult to every person who never recovered from that horrible war. Its horrors are the communal property of all those who lived it, not the sole proprietary of one man who wishes to use it as a selling point on his resume. And you know what? The fact that Kerry served in Viet Nam ultimately has no bearing whatsoever on the issue of if he can fix this country or not. The Machine is the Machine, and no one man (even if his intentions are true and pure) is going to stop what the world has been enforcing since civilization began.
But, hey, he ain't Bush, so, what the ****. I'll probably vote for him...
Throughout history, oppressed people have experienced a multitude of tactics employed in the process of their subjugation. Logically, once traditional means fail, in order to effectively counteract an enemy’s tactics, one modifies strategies to account for the adversary’s fighting style, adopts similar strategies or continues to utilize the same methods. It has been said that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and to expect different results, yet politically, that is exactly the course of action employed by the majority of the politically powerless in the United States.
The dual strategies of “divide and conquer” and “divide and rule” have served the imperialistic powers exceptionally well. It would do some of us justice to explore the implications of adopting a modified version of this methodology in its pursuit of political empowerment. An organized effort at constructing a highly versatile voting bloc, one that “divides” its political power in a coordinated campaign to “conquer” electoral politics is proposed.
While some political pundits say that the day of bloc voting has passed, this is a complete fallacy. Bloc voting in the traditional sense of a particular demographic voting en masse for a specific party is dead. Voting blocs must leverage and consolidate their voting power to manipulate electoral politics according to their own interests.
Picture a group of 100 voters working in concert, committed to political education and activity within and without the established political system. If 40 of those voters were registered Democrats, 40 Republicans and 20 independents, the bloc would have leveraged power within all major parties. During general elections, this power would be consolidated according to the interests of the bloc, not aligned with any one party. Multiply this formula by the hundreds; thousands and hundreds of thousands of potential votes the the revolutionists represent and one can appreciate the impact this strategy can have if properly utilized.
-OLMEK
These are two grown men acting like two little boys on the playground, arguing inanity and irrelevancy back and forth. Kerry has crafted this ultra-patriotic, Lincoln-like persona of the war hero with a progressive outlook. To me, the war hero part is some real bull****. I see someone who signed himself up to travel halfway around the world to assist in the genocide of a race of poor people of color, in the name of a dominating, oppressive government regime.
I've said before that my pops went to Viet Nam. Not by any choice of his own. He was ordered to go. He had no family connections to get him deferred. He went mostly out of fear of what would happen to him if he refused. My father spent more than a year in heavy combat and received no formal recognition for his service. He was only freed from his bonded servitude after being wounded while ducking from sniper fire. He came home and managed to live the rest of his life NOT being a homeless junkie, or a mentally crippled shell of his former self. He didn't become an alcoholic family abuser. He didn't become one of those casualties of war who couldn't move on with his life. He went on to work and live and raise a family.
I kind of think that Kerry's shameless parading of his time in Viet Nam is vile. Even if he truly was the heroic figure that his ad campaign portrays him to be, it is not something that should be processed and packaged and shoved down the throats of the world community. It's an insult to every person who never recovered from that horrible war. Its horrors are the communal property of all those who lived it, not the sole proprietary of one man who wishes to use it as a selling point on his resume. And you know what? The fact that Kerry served in Viet Nam ultimately has no bearing whatsoever on the issue of if he can fix this country or not. The Machine is the Machine, and no one man (even if his intentions are true and pure) is going to stop what the world has been enforcing since civilization began.
But, hey, he ain't Bush, so, what the ****. I'll probably vote for him...
Throughout history, oppressed people have experienced a multitude of tactics employed in the process of their subjugation. Logically, once traditional means fail, in order to effectively counteract an enemy’s tactics, one modifies strategies to account for the adversary’s fighting style, adopts similar strategies or continues to utilize the same methods. It has been said that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and to expect different results, yet politically, that is exactly the course of action employed by the majority of the politically powerless in the United States.
The dual strategies of “divide and conquer” and “divide and rule” have served the imperialistic powers exceptionally well. It would do some of us justice to explore the implications of adopting a modified version of this methodology in its pursuit of political empowerment. An organized effort at constructing a highly versatile voting bloc, one that “divides” its political power in a coordinated campaign to “conquer” electoral politics is proposed.
While some political pundits say that the day of bloc voting has passed, this is a complete fallacy. Bloc voting in the traditional sense of a particular demographic voting en masse for a specific party is dead. Voting blocs must leverage and consolidate their voting power to manipulate electoral politics according to their own interests.
Picture a group of 100 voters working in concert, committed to political education and activity within and without the established political system. If 40 of those voters were registered Democrats, 40 Republicans and 20 independents, the bloc would have leveraged power within all major parties. During general elections, this power would be consolidated according to the interests of the bloc, not aligned with any one party. Multiply this formula by the hundreds; thousands and hundreds of thousands of potential votes the the revolutionists represent and one can appreciate the impact this strategy can have if properly utilized.
-OLMEK