Editor,
If the last two years has taught us anything, it should be that the President of the United States does not actually run the country, set policy or enforce the rule of law, despite what we’ve been led to believe all our lives.
He is merely a figurehead whose main purpose is to make flowery speeches and act as a cheerleader for the military industrial corporate complex that actually dictates our nation’s policies.
I can’t believe that this realization would come as a shock to anyone who has been paying attention lately, especially to those poor souls who thought that “Change we can believe in” actually meant there would be some sort of positive change to this country’s dangerous, destructive policies.
A lot of young voters are probably disgusted at this perceived betrayal, but I’m convinced this was part of the overall plan to finally put an end to any form of political activism in America by demonstrating once and for all the utter futility of hoping for a better future in this country.
The joke is on them for thinking they could alter the disastrous path our country is taking by simply voting. It’s become plainly obvious that Democrats and Republicans all work for the same team — the War Party — and that nothing is ever going to change.
I realize that the Glenn Beck cult wants to blame all of our problems on President Obama, but that is clearly just a short-sighted, ignorant and racist viewpoint — despite their protestations to the contrary.
Race-baiters and hate-mongers like Beck and Limbaugh have been busy turning their worshippers against fellow Americans instead of against the war profiteers, corporate shills and Zionists who are working diligently to destroy our way of life. That’s how good propaganda works: Divert criticism from the true enemies of the state and blame the scapegoats for everything.
Do Beck or Limbaugh ever mention the profoundly detrimental effects our pointless, lost wars have on our economy? Do they ever talk about how globalization has sucked all of the jobs out of the country? Or how the destruction of the labor unions and the lack of decent wages have decimated the middle class? Do they ever mention the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergers or the criminality of the Federal Reserve System? Of course not, because they’re apologists for Wall Street and corporate America, and they put the needs of soulless, criminal multi-national corporations above the needs of their own people every single time.
They’re perfectly happy spending another trillion dollars to kill people in far-away countries who pose absolutely no threat to us, as long as the money isn’t being used to pay for much-needed social programs and infrastructure here at home that could benefit everyone.
Why, that would be socialism! And if we dare question the incredibly bloated “defense” budget, or the need for never-ending wars for profit, they label us unpatriotic, all while they refer to President Obama as Hitler. Funny thing, that is.
Jason Darensburg
UNM student and staff member
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