There’s a Black Man in the White House
Imagine for a second you live in the backwoods of Mississippi. You don’t get out much. No internet or telephone or newspapers. You’ve written off society a long time ago. After those bastards stole Bush a second election you decided “ah, the hell with it” & stocked up on Pork n Beans, a can opener & some wood for widdlin’. No contact with the outside world. You’re happy as can be. Until one day while widdlin' a nice enough reproduction of FDR you notice you’re all out of pork n beans.
So you finally start the ole truck up n head into town. You’re excited in a Kissin' Cousins kinda way as you haven’t seen or heard from anyone for quite a long time.
When you get to town you realize there’s quite a ruckus going on at Mabel’s Bar & Fish Bait Shop. You walk into find everyone glued to the idiot box watching a man on stage who apparently has been elected President of the United States. You are in shock as well as being dismayed. Mostly bcuz you didn’t realize how much time had passed. But also bcuz you think you recognize the new President standing on stage with his family.
You think you recognize him cuz you used to follow politics somewhat before you retreated into the backwoods but never thought you’d see the day when a politician you actually liked would be elected President of the United states. Someone who was a straight shooter. Who truly represented the voice of the people.
“That’s Joe Biden,” you mutter to no one in particular. You can’t believe it. “They’ve elected Joe Biden as president of the United States !!” You begin to jump up & down for joy as you can barely contain the excitement of seeing a true democrat back in the white house. Not since 1976 & Jimmy carter have you been this excited about the future of this country.
But then you notice something strange.
“Who’s that colored fella on stage with President Biden ?
Is that his driver ?? Are they really that close ? Look he even let the colored fella bring his family out on stage too. Ah, ain’t that sweet … what ? … wait, why is the colored fella gonna give a speech ?? Is he gonna announce Senator Biden to the crowd ?? President Barack Hussein Obama ?? What year is this ? Hot damn !! How long was I gone !!?”
We’ve been colonized !! Run for your lives !!"
The Elephant in the Room
Everyone knows we are up shit creek without a paddle in many regards these days. The Environment, Peak oil (tho know one has the guts to call it by its true name), a failing economy & 2 wars. But isn’t it interesting that no one is mentioning the root cause of all these problems: American Consumerism.
Until we deal with the fact that we have been depleting the earth’s resources at an irreplaceable rate & to the detriment of most of this planet’s inhabitants (U.S. is only 5% of the world’s population but we consume 70% of the world’s resources) the problems we are facing today will never be solved.
I know you can’t exactly get elected president of the United States on a platform of shop less, be more !! But someone at some point needs to say something & force the American people to face that their way life is simply unsustainable. I know… how about the American media ?!?! Oh, yeah, they are all owned by all the very corporations whose profit margins would suffer if we were to face the facts & consume less & recycle more, saving the planet in the process. It seems silly the argument that we make here in a so called “free” nation against places like Cuba & Venezuela where the most powerful people there supposedly control the media … while all along that is exactly what is going on here. Which begs the question: How free are we ?
Can you say ‘conflict of interest’ ??
So unless you want to see mass storage units built for all our remaining “stuff” right next to parking lots for the planet’s last remaining SUV’s on Mount Kilimanjaro since that is how high the waters will have risen thanks to unchecked Global Warming, it is time for a comprehensive plan to move America & the world into this new century by accepting the limitations of a flawed economic system (capitalism) which requires infinite growth while living in a finite world.
