From The Existentialist Cowboy
By Len Hart

In the US the ‘political season’ occurs every four years and lasts four years. In four years, many words are said and inversely fewer mean anything. Do the math. The campaigns are but a sop to public delusions that the US is a ‘Democracy’.

The US was the creation of Northern commercial interests and remains so today. For those who wield power, the campaigns are a light diversion in which mock debates are held about things that don’t matter. When the dust has settled, the power brokers still broker power, the slaves are still lashed to the wheel. Every four years you are thrown a bone to gnaw on until another bone is thrown you four years hence!

John McCain came dangerously close to saying something meaningful when he said we may stay in Iraq for ‘ten thousand years’! Just words? Obama said that the decision to invade Iraq was ‘the most important foreign-policy decision in a generation’ –’just words’! Unless he means that it was a bone-headed, fascist decision that has bankrupted the nation, destroyed the Constitution, enslaved the American and the Iraqi people, enriched the rich, and resulted in the murders of over one million Iraqi civilians. Why didn’t he say that? Perhaps, that’s not what he meant! Perhaps, it’s all just words!

Sure the so-called candidates talk about ‘Iraq’ but in buzzwords, fashionable but meaningless phrases, Pentagonese and ‘cute speak’! ‘Cute speak’ is ‘pre-fab’, ‘lego’ language, clauses and phrases assembled on-the-fly: one from column ‘A’, one from column ‘B’, one from column ‘C’.

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