The Mental State of The Union

I’ve come to some very disturbing conclusions lately, covering the Birther/Town Hall Mobster beat as I have.

I’ve been covering it from the seedy backroom of the unsung Internet political forum, the true Pantheon of Modern Rome. Any story worth getting is worth getting from the front line, and for months I’ve been witnessing the very savage and brutal punch-for-punch ground combat, and let me tell you… let me deliver the message out to Peoria – It’s brutal out there.

There’s a very real sense and hope that the strange, heady mix of variables in play when it comes to debate over the Internet (being anonymous, untraceable, and therefore able to toss any old bullshit into the public consciousness) the environment itself is mostly responsible for the kind of deviant behavior we’re seeing. It’s a place almost completely populated with opinionated personalities, and any time they get together to discuss even something as innocuous as clouds, there’s a five-bell riot in minutes. So naturally, introducing politics into this kind of environment and then attempting to hold the results up as an accurate cross-section of the populace as a whole is dis-ingenious. At least we’d better goddamn hope so. Because if real life ever gets anywhere near as controversial and explosive as people are getting on the Internet, we’re going to have some Serious Trouble on American Streets.

Let’s cover the sides at play:

The Right, having recently been shamed by a utter sacking at the Polls, is desperately groping to salvage some architecture of a party from the rapidly deflating balloon that is it’s reality. This means instead of shucking off the zealot fringe, it is indeed the only core the party has left.

The Left, feeling vindicated for it’s near decade of oppression and recommended silence, is now glossing over abuses and issues that would have had them on their rooftops with latte’s in hand, blogging fierce venom on the wireless until they expired and fell to dust.

And the Centrists are so bewildered by how easily the corporate interests can whip up the nutter element on both sides, they’re quietly stocking up on ammo and water, having just recently decided that talking common sense and acting rationally is a lost art in this country. I went to get groceries today at a major nationwide chain, and the place looked like it’d been raided by vikings. So that’s a yes for the binge eating and instinctual hoarding during time of crisis. And if my recent nightlife ventures have been any indication, the drunks (not unlike werewolves) may defeat us before the speculators and white collar criminals do.

I mean, the Birthers.

Or is it the Apologists this week? One can never keep up.

Truly the end times, they are upon us, yada yada yada. This most recent season of fear apparently has been expanded (due to high demand) to a year long fiesta of reactionary bullshit and thinly veiled PsyOps nibbles coming down the AP wire by the bucket load. They’re tweaking that racism knob real hard, hoping for a spark to send this entire dirigible into an unrecoverable spiral.

And after that darkness, who knows? Do they even have a plan? God knows the Left/Right sure don’t seem too concerned with having one. They’re so busy locked in Mortal Combat over the Fate of Our Great Goddamn Nation that they wouldn’t know what to do with the crown if they finally stumbled, stabbed and bribed their way into it. Not that that won’t keep them from trying, you understand.

So, in this foul year of our lord 2009, how can one resist cuing up some stolen and unlicensed dire sounding music, flinging open the back door, and saying fuck it. Drink directly from the bottle of sake/port/40/rum and buy those really nice cigarettes you never convinced yourself to splurge on.

Because here’s the disturbing conclusion I’ve been building to, one that became clear finally following this wicked beat titled ‘The Decay Of Modern American Society’ – They Just Lie Til It’s True.

The whole world’s built on lies. People have stopped trying to pretend they’re bad for you, or that lies aren’t nice. Lies have become the opiate of the masses. People breathe them in every morning, and exhale them every night. We have whole channels devoted to maintaining them. People knowingly toss them about because they’re actually considered polite lies. And oh, the lies lies lies we tell ourselves just to make it one more day and not want to do something desperate.

We have people, right now, in this country… to whom definitions of words don’t mean anything any more. It’s the “I Got Mine, You Can’t Have Any” movement, proselytizing their Scorched Earth religion as the prevailing mindset of the Most Powerful Nation on the Planet. They don’t have to be True. They don’t have to Know. All they need is Faith and a Promise. Help. And once their armor is constructed of those two elements no Brick Wall of Truth Ever made can stop them. So they think. Go check youtube, there’s plenty of footage of their ilk crashing and burning in the light of Reality. But they’re determined animals, and they go back to the drawing board after every defeat, hoping to wear the rest of us down on the idea of giving them the keys ‘just one more time’.

The still-recognized legitimacy of Administrations like Bush’s (still legitimized by Administrations like Obama’s) are the ones responsible for emboldening these otherwise fringe undesirables. The American Education System was created to rid us of this scourge, which then went to the highest bidder and became My First Training Course for corporate America.

So now we have the Drone Class. And political madmen, seeing an untapped demo, legitimized them. Now they feel that their philosophy, (righteous, sans objectivity) has a ‘mandate’ and that it is necessary for them to ‘take America back’ to a time that hardly has any allegory in reality out side of the kind of fare you’re most likely to find on Nick At Night. Incidentally, those shows were mostly filmed during the last time the propaganda machines took over in the interests of acting as a kind of societal steering comittee.

Starting to make sense now? The elite learned their lessons from the 60′s. Just not the ones we’d hoped for. The Class War is on and spilling into the streets. Keep all three eyes open, True Seekers. We haven’t won any ground yet, this is just getting started.

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