But as Carlin (among many others) has pointed out, *they* are not the problem. The problem is the people who voted for, and continue to vote for them. Having lived in the Mid West these past thirty-odd years, I can attest to the fact that the Senate does reflect the values (such as they are) of the majority. I've recently been reading the last few musings of Trotsky and I agree with Hitchens, that near the end of his life, he'd come to recognize that the October Revolution was based upon a fallacy. The great failure was that the proletariat had not, and could not rise to become a ruling class. They simply cannot be trusted to build a just and fair society. They lack the ability. This is not to say that the Tsars of his day or the plutocratic monied Tsars we've lived with these past 40 years are any better. They are their own brand of evil and I maintain they are still worse. For they, unlike the masses, know better.
This is a nation composed of unimaginably greedy, xenophobic, Luddite bastards and their Senate is composed of people just like them. Or at least composed of people "smart enough" to use them as the useful idiots that are the overwhelming majority.
Maybe its that I lived so long in the Mid West that I'm beginning to give up on humanity. I don't know. From time to time I read the LA Times and am reminded that there is another America. And then I remember Orange County and recall that even the Left Coast has its human cancers.
Into this mess I have assisted in bringing two new humans. I suspect there will come a day when they curse my ashes for doing so.
This is a nation composed of unimaginably greedy, xenophobic, Luddite bastards and their Senate is composed of people just like them. Or at least composed of people "smart enough" to use them as the useful idiots that are the overwhelming majority.
Maybe its that I lived so long in the Mid West that I'm beginning to give up on humanity. I don't know. From time to time I read the LA Times and am reminded that there is another America. And then I remember Orange County and recall that even the Left Coast has its human cancers.
Into this mess I have assisted in bringing two new humans. I suspect there will come a day when they curse my ashes for doing so.