I suspect….

 

I got a note on the last entry that said pretty much what I really think, that Bush and company will get away with their crimes 100%.  He and his dad nominated the balance of the Supreme Court – those guys (and one woman) with lifetime tenure know who they owe, and they would not hear any case brought against Bush and company no matter what.  While I will stand and cheer and happily admit I’m wrong if it does happen, I do not expect it to happen.  You shouldn’t either.

The note points out that Mr. Obama has "more important" things to deal with (what a fucking mess).  True, I think, but it goes to show that "who you know and who you blow" operates all the way up the line.  Causing the US’s rep to go into the toilet and costing us trillions is no big deal to these people, because that money (3 trillion estimated cost of the Iraqi War, and the trillion and a half squandered by the repuglicans) did not get piled up and set on fire.  Nope, it went into the pockets of the politician’s REAL constituancy… and that ain’t us.

I suspect that Mr. Obama is fully endorsed and supported by the same people who raked in all that cash.  I suspect there’s a huge disappointment waiting, because of those endorsements.  People will get RICHer off this new president, and not too much will really change.  No point in getting pissed about it – we’ve got the best government money can buy, and one of the things that makes America "great" is that we have stability.  No matter who’s in office, nothing much really changes deep down.  Oh sure, surface changes happen, but the bedrock is secure in it’s form and unless "The Revolution" happens (and it won’t) nothing fundamental will change.

One of the brilliant aspects of the US system is that it relies upon the petty benefactors of the current system to share a morsel of the fat of the land as it’s stripped off for the few.  Those little pieces give the guards of the system the incentive to keep things the way they are, the guards being the cops, the lawyers, the judges, the school principals, the mayors and city councilmen, the TV and radio execs, and etc.  If Mr. Obama wasn’t a paid member of the establishment, he would have had as much of a chance to get elected as, say Jesse Jackson.  Or me, for that matter.

The Obama regime will spend trillions more in an effort to clean up the mess, and who do you think those trillions of dollars will go to?  The same people who screwed it up in this case.  The rest of us will continue to struggle to make ends meet, idiotic "consumers" that we are.

I guess maybe people still say that anyone can grow up to be President of the US – Bush makes that clearly so – any idiot can be President.  The really smart people work within the system to better their and their families lot, to everyone else’s detriment, but they’re getting theirs and that’s all that matters to them.

See, the real problem is that human beings are selfish, inconsiderate morons.  Not just here; everywhere.  There’s more money around now than ever before, and who does it benefit the most- the fewer and fewer who have more and more.  That won’t change.

Why? Because of that selfish inconsiderate moron thing.

HOPE is good, but even better if the illusion of hope blinds enough people to make things work the way they always have.  Marx called religion the opiate of the masses, and why?  Because it gives a sense of hope that there is Justice, karmic justice or whatever, out there, that "bad" people come to bad ends, that the "good" are rewarded in heaven, that no matter how poor or bad off people are now, that after they die, they’ll be rewarded in heaven.  If that’s what keeps you going, more power to you.  It is a way to get people to accept their lot in life.  It is the way to make the greedy and selfish rich seem "better" than the rest of us.  It gives people enough hope to keep things the way they are, in hopes that "someday"  the "meek" will "inheirit the earth".

On my white board above my desk:  "Whatever you hope, figure it’s not going to happen.  If it does, be happy.  If it doesn’t, well, you knew that."

I predict that a LOT of people will become disillusioned, but not enought to cause REAL change.  It’s that selfish inconsiderate moron thing again.  The illusion of change and a new HiDef TV will cure a lot of that disappointment.  Or some new geegaw that you "Have to Have".  Give morons enough "stuff" and they’re happy, and that’s the beauty of the US system – it gives enough "stuff" to enough people so that the morons are happy and don’t make too much noise.  Stability.

Nothing will REALLY change… and the morons will be ok with that, because REAL change is frightening and unstable.

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One last thing:  Bush imfamously called The Constituion "just a piece of paper".  He’s got that right, I suspect.

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