Re: Obama V Romney
I agree with you, and I don’t think you’re naive. Many people realize this system of neo-feudalism, unfettered capitalism and permanent war is an artificial construct that cannot sustain itself. It’s easy to poke fun at Republicans and Fox News - they are easy, comical targets. What’s hollow and insidious is continuing to claim that the Democratic platform stands for something different. “Obama vs Romney” is an illusion of choice. A vote for Obama is just a cynical vote against Romney as far as I’m concerned. I’ve had enough of this impotent compulsion to ‘vote for the lesser evil.’ I won’t do it.
Chris Hedges articulates this better in Death of the Liberal Class:
“The liberal class has ossified. It has become part of the system it once tried to reform. It continues to speak in the language of technical jargon and tepid political reform, even though the corporate state has long since gutted the mechanisms for actual reform. The failure by the liberal class to adjust to the harsh, new reality of corporate power and the permanent war economy, to acknowledge its own powerlessness, has left the liberal class isolated and despised. The liberal class has died because it refuses to act as if anything has changed. It ignored the looming environmental and economic collapse. It ignored the structural critique that might pull us back from the horrific effects of climate change and a global depression. Our power elite and their liberal apologists lack the ideas and the vocabulary to make sense of our new and terrifying reality.”