It just keeps getting worse

One of the worst court decisions since Dred Scott v. Sanford has just gotten worse. Reading numerous articles over the weekend and today has opened my eyes to the grim future of the United States after last weeks court decision to allow limitless finance to candidates running in elections from corporations. The thing that just struck my mind is who's to say that foreign corporations won't get in on elections in the United States? Last weeks Citizens United v. FEC was bad enough but now SpeechNow.org v. FEC is threatning to allow foreign corporations to fuck with the US democratic process. One of the other things that is troubling to me is why this is not getting more coverage. I mean this is not something like a small defense contract getting thrown out. This is effecting the electoral process for fucks sake! Why do people not seem to care about it?!

As Keith Olbermann named them so eloquently as "Those poor, dumb, manipulated bastards; the tea-partiers", they remain blissfully unaware of the repercussions of this bill while they stand out side the White House like asses holding signs that compare Obama to Hitler and Stalin. I still have yet to find a connection between President Obama, who is attempting to better the health care system, and Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, two of the biggest mass murderers this planet has EVER seen. I also fail to see why Obama has been called a socialist, communist, Marxist and anarchist. It makes one wonder whether these clowns even know what they're talking. Do they know that none of those words are synonymous? Do you think they know each of them have different philosophies and propose different things?

Another thing that is REALLY bugging the piss out of me is why have political parties become so polarized. Why is it ALWAYS “us” versus “them”? Why do there only have to be 2 political parties? I’d like to and consider myself to be in neither party, though I side with the left far more than I do the right. I consider myself a democratic socialist. I’m not afraid of admitting it. I AM a socialist. Why do so many people see me as such a bad person because I believe in a system that is different than capitalism? I don’t think that our government is bad. I merely suggest that our government could be better by doing things different. Why is that wrong?

So many people, both republican and democrat, believe that this country’s health care is not great. So do I. I think a different system is the way to go. I think socialism practiced under a democracy is something that could make this country a better place. Socialism is NOT something to fear. It is to be explored and understood. I do not mean to force my beliefs upon others. That would be destroying some of the concepts democracy encourages. For the record, democratic socialism DOES NOT equal AUTHORIARIAN SOCIALISM, DICTORIAL SOCIALISM, AUTHORITARIAN COMMUNISM, DICTORIAL COMMUNISM, etc. Nor does socialism equate to ANY type of anarchism. Democratic socialism equates to democratic socialism. Socialism does not mean a hammer and sickle. One thing that socialism does not do is advocate a society where the top 5% of the population owns just as much as the bottom 95%.

One last thing; Some people accuse of President Barack Obama of being a "traitor" for what few may see as socialist policies. Which of the following equates to a traitor to you; a person elected by the people of the United States of America to be the president of the United States of America or 5 people voting to corrupt the election process of a democracy?

Many people believe this country can be better than it currently is. Am I such a bad person in believing that it can be through different ways than yours?

Wait, WHAT?

Would you trust a news company if they actively pursued a court case that would give them the legal right to lie on TV? Would you trust a news company if they actively tried to suppress a story that involved the public health, one that involved the health of children? I know I wouldn’t. What kind of News Company could do that with a clean conscience? Why would they do it? How can they STILL be broadcasting?

I give the one, the only, Fox News:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZkDikRLQrw&feature=player_embedded#at=25

It’s a bit frightening isn’t it? One of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world actively pursued and won a court case that gave them the right to distort news and lie on TV. Now I’m not saying that this news organization over here is truthful and this one here isn’t. That’s not the point. The point is that the Monsanto Company used bovine growth hormone to make milk that was possibly harmful to humans. They did this KNOWINGLY and Fox News tried to cover the entire thing up.

Still trust Fox?

http://www.organicconsumers.org/rbgh/fox-news.cfm

http://www.ceasespin.org/ceasespin_blog/ceasespin_blogger_files/fox_news_gets_okay_to_misinform_public.html

He saw the inevitible demise

Sometimes people can see things that others can't. I never really researched Dwight D. Eisenhower's political ambitions and achievements but he was one of those people. Throughout his 2 terms as the president of the United States, he saw things beginning to happen. I wish more people saw them. Perhaps they were inevitible or perhaps that we were too far in to our current ways at the time but they did in fact happen. Now we're stuck in our ways. It depresses me sometimes. Maybe the Romans are not the only empire of the world to be the cause of their own failure. I implore you to read part of Eisenhower's farewell address below. Please read it.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwightdeisenhowerfarewell.html

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Military-Industrial_Complex_Speech

"The cost of one heavy modern bomber is this: A modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants each serving a town of sixty thousand population. It is two fine fully equipped hospitals…. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron… Modern weapons take food from the hungry and shelter from the homeless."

~President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Warping stupidity

During a lapse in judgement, I watched an episode of an MTV reality show. I'd now like to stab myself in the ear as punishment. Real World was bad enough, but this reality tv shit has evolved itself in to something that is downright... Ugh. I suppose I may be too much of a "Back in the day" kind of person and miss the 80's/90's MTV when somewhat shitty music videos and Beavis & Butthead were on. I did expect something decent from MTV, given that I haven't watched it since I can't remember when. However, that does not excuse my stupidity in stooping to the low levels of reality television.

I am seriously awed at this crap. I suppose I am taking all my anger about MTV on "My Life as Liz". I mean, there are loads of absolute bullshit I could be angrier at. Oh say, Real World, Road Rules, Cribs, Teen Cribs, My Sweet 16, Jeresy Shore, True Life (which its name itself should be humorous), Made, The Hills, Laguna Beach + numerous others. These are REAL good ideas for television shows for teens. Making them want for shit they DON'T need, babies most of all (Teen Mom). But more than that, it is making teens want for things. It teaches matierialism and selfism. It makes us become more of a consumer based society. I try to be as non-consumeristic as possible but what can I say? I'm addicted to food and water.

I could go on society gone awry rants til my lungs ran out but fuck it. Now then, where was I? Daria/Juno rip off. Now I remember. I saw Juno and immidiately saw it as a somewhat real life Daria rip off but I didn't mind that much. The "young 'uns" needed their own anti-hero outcast just as much as I did. But this, this has bullshit rip off written all over it down to an exact scene in Juno. Instead of Juno, it is of "Liz" laying on her car windshield looking up at the stars with a same fucking sized big gulp for fucks sake. As if our eminent failure as a country due to bureaucratic bullshit wasn't bad enough... Now I'm suffering from the shock of RTV, er I mean "MTV", the channel that shows 19 hours of reality TV, 4 1/2 hours of commercials and 30 minutes of VERY shitty music. Sometimes society just has to put it in your ass far too much as needed, as is the case now.

I fear for my ass more than ever.

Corporations are people and other oddities

Back in 1886 in the court case Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad, our good old boys on the Supreme Court of the United States decided that corporations are people under the law. Since then, corporations have had many of the same rights, liberties and freedoms that normal, breathing, thinking people have. Now, in 2010 that decision might have just fucked the people of the United States right in their puckered up asses. Earlier today, our good old boys in the Supreme Court decided that corporations have not been getting all of their first amendment rights since they can not donate litterally limitless amounts of cash to candidates running for office (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/21/supreme-court-rolls-back_n_431227.html)

So… let me get this straight.

Corporations are people… they are not getting the right to free speech… and money is the way they speak? I can already tell this is going to come out corrupt in every sense of the word. I mean it’s basic math.

Money from special interest groups + Politicians = BAD

This no limits campaign-finance from corporations, it's something you need to pay attention to. People do not seem to grasp how big this is. This is HUGE! The truth is that this decision gives an enormous amount of power to corporations. The only color that really matters down in DC is not red or blue. It’s green. The corporate agenda just became the public agenda and politicians just became a commodity. Billions is being spent in DC by corporations and special interests groups bribing, er, I mean "lobbying" politicians, which is why this healthcare bill is fucked. If insurance companies had one fucking noble strand in their DNA then this bill would be passed in a matter of days. Unfortunately for us, these corporations and special interest groups bribing, I mean "lobbying" politicians are the health care companies getting politicians to steer away from health care.

There is only one thing that these enormous health care companies care about: The bottom line. The bottom line to them is not that this country's health care system sucks. It's that this health care bill would piss off their share holders. It's funny. We're the richest and most powerful country on the planet and our health care system is complete shit compared to others. The most ironic part is that politicians know this and still do nothing... because of this bribing, er, sorry, I mean "lobbying" from health care companies.

I really do not find it that hard to picture a few politicians in the not so distant future in DC saying, “Yes, did the congressman from McDonald’s have a question?” or “Senator from Nike, you have the floor.” If you are thinking to yourself, “Hey that could never happen” then you better stop, now. This is happening. In the near future when our politicians are bought and paid for by corporations and conglomorates perhaps we should have signs on all entrances to the country with these words written on them: "Welcome to America. We don't elect our politicians. Corporations just buy them."

One thing is perfectly clear: The first amendment crap is just bullshit. This has partisan-policy written all over it. It's disheartning down to my soul to know that these Supreme Court Justice's are supposed to know right from wrong and act accordingly. In this instance, they did NOT by any means! They know the implications of this bill. The 5 that voted to overturn the case should not be Justices' at all. They should be outcast. They knew this would corrupt the democratic election process and they did it anyways! I am terribly, TERRIBLY disappointed in them! America is about to change, ENORMOUSLY. If you really don’t think corporations have the power I write or that their agenda is not part of the equation then you better check your facts. Research how much corporations have influenced public policy. Watch Why We Fight or The Corporation if you need to. Corporate agendas and the public agenda are NOT very far apart despite what your elected officials say. When corporations have full control of public policy and a majority in the House and Senate, good luck getting your country back.

One thing I think is certain: the future of the Corporate States of America is pretty goddamn grim.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34981476/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann