Skid Row Politics

 written back in 2016

Skid Row Politics.

Have you ever seen the elimination of skid row by redevelopment?

They tear down, they rebuild, they modernize and does skid row go away? No, it just moves somewhere else. To Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan, nearly all the countries in Central and South America, all of Africa and nearly every other country around the world. They've all been skid row to the Western Empire. Tear‘em down, put ‘em  new leaders in power, destroy their infrastructure, rebuild, give them more weapons, and woo la, a new Skid Row pops up somewhere else, nowadays in the Country we just call it "redeveloped". You can hate skid row but you can't kill it. Know why?

 

Trying to kill tyranny with tyranny is as old a concept as, well, let's say, trying to establish democracy by tyranny. It doesn't work but when you live in a society such as ours it's easy to believe that changing who is in the government actually changes something. Many countries have had a series of tyrants running their military and it's never changed a thing. Different faces, same results. We're about to try and elect a woman as President, right after the black man, who came after the southern sax playing Welfare Killer and  corporate lover, who came after the Great Communicator and in between a couple of them there was the  former head of the CIA and his son who ran the presidency as if he were a simpleton King with his henchman, Oliver "Dick Cheney" Cromwell. Not a dimes worth of difference between any of them. We have the same problems even though we call them by different names.

We don't have educational segregation but now we don't even have an educational system. We don't have Vietnam, Chile, Guatemala, Cambodia, Palestine, the Cold War but now we have Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, War on Terror. There are probably ten other major conflicts we've been involved in and the stage is being set for the next generation wars, the wars we can manage from the air but even that isn't new because we tried to eliminate the Vietnam Cong and North Vietnamese by dropping  record numbers of bombs from B-52's which were the untouchable war machine like the stealth technology is today. B-52's dropped their payloads from so high in the atmosphere military generals laughed at how easy it was. Look what we gained. Some people say we are governed by the military it's not just the use of technology to establish dominance by violence but is just as much of what's in the hearts and minds of political leaders. And in this age of subliminal violence that dominates and controls us, militarism and religion is at the heart of and in the minds of all those who wrongly believe that deadly force rids the world of cruel and violent ideas. 

ISIS is the creation of men who think they are god but who essentially don't believe in anything except power and wealth. Isn't it ironic that Congress and the President are in agreement, finally. Obama put off his immigration policy, for the sake of democrats struggling to win election or re-election, as if immigration reform doesn't exist. Both parties here in the US have no new ideas because the world they are creating is not new, except in it's title, New World Order. It's all about oil, resource control, and religious hegemony. Make no mistake about it, folks, we are living in the end times though there will be no return of gods form of fascism but the complete elimination of all forms of dissent. They are willing , ever since, 9/11 to throw the baby of freedom out with the bath water of fascism. Unfortunately, ISIS, as the Taliban before it, or Zionism, or Nazism before that, all have the distinction of looking like formidable myths, but, in reality, are only ideologies, coming from the inside because of what's happening outside of us. We have been brainwashed with media hype for decades now on how we need to defend ourselves and if you believe the media, which is a creation of the military/CIA/industrial complex to make us fearful.

Whenever I hear of a new threat, I look around me, at the inhabitants of my local community and what do I see? Parents of all ethnic and cultural beliefs and fears simply going about their business of trying to get their kids educated, working, and trying to survive without a thought about ISIS or the Taliban or the wars in the Middle East. Maybe some of them have sons and daughters who are in the military so they have concerns for them but could care less or know even less about the politics of what their kids are involved in. How can anyone really know the depths of insanity our politics can muster for the sake of ideologies that have been so corrupted and abused, that very few knowledgeable people even try to piece together everything that's wrong. The one's who are supposed to know and create an atmosphere of democracy, which only an informed public needs in order to make legitimate choices, give us cliche, simple scenarios about complex issues.

We went to war in Iraq and probably, Afghanistan on a lie. The Taliban was more vicious than ISIS and had control of Afghanistan for one reason and one reason only. The United States helped them, despite knowing their religious zealotry, to defeat the Russians, who were as foolish then as we are now. If we think we can kill all those who hate with precision air attacks, then there's probably a thousand other places on the planet that have to be scoured. Syria is a good example of a foreign, religious, weapons industry centered war. ISIS came out of Syria but inside Syria and nearly every other North African and middle eastern, sub-continent country are the seeds for violence and hatred. From our side, hate and violence comes from a more intricate philosophy that is as anti-democratic as it is anti-freedom. All one has to do is look around and it's obvious. People won't be contained by borders nor will they sit still if their homes are destroyed, nor will they forget.

That's the problem, Obama and America. The people won't forget.

Stop colluding with fascism.