Take Two a re-edit of a previous post

Posted by Matthew Crouch at 16:39

I have to make a confession for this blog record of my crazy over caffeinated rantiness - I seriously and I mean I seriously considered voting straight Republican for the elections this week - Which after the elections in 2000 I swore I would never and I mean never ever vote conservative again (Not that I did then either – I reluctantly voted for free speech rights inhibiting Gore). Every election is always about voting for the lesser of two Evils and this time around that was easier than in the past. Not that I am in the habit of voting conservative but I have I confess done so once or twice in the past before I knew better. In theory I am a tried and true Republican conservative - it is just that since - I don't know - maybe since Lincoln was shot - there hasn't been an actual Republican in Washington, D.C. to vote for and certainly never in my lifetime (except for maybe Gore Vidal and the Clintons). Although my ballot gets sent in from overseas and therefore probably gets lost much less not even counted as if it matters - which after the 2000 elections I don't much believe in the whole voting process in the states and can you honestly say - do you? Can't we like get NASA who in their day was able to land things on the moon to now accurately collect, collate if necessary and so gather our nations vote from within the US and from those of us happy and unhappy ex-pats - military and non-military types - from abroad?

Why are there not sophisticated like machines with GPS systems tagged to voter identification that can ensure safe, fair and accurate voting data via satellite? Maybe Google Earth could have all the Americans go outside and stand looking up holding their vote choices on a placard – and thus with facial recognition technology via satellite so our votes can get accurately counted while the census is being conducted.

I believe in 2000 Al Gore won a victory and that the familia Bush duped the nation and ignored international warnings about the imminent events that would take place on what would become what we now know as 9/11. Events that unlike anything imaginable, strangely (or perhaps even suspiciously), meshed nicely with the likes of Wolfowitz and Rumps-velds opportunistic sinister vision of control and fake purpose for the Americans a la text book applications of Leo Straussian philosophy.

I will say when I saw junior Bush talking post election this week on some Euro-News TV bit that the Bush guy sure looked relieved for someone who just learned the nation spoke against him and his kind in no uncertain terms. Even via radio this relief was audible in Bush's voice. Bush can - for the next two years without a guilty conscience - if he indeed has the capacity for that - now spend his time on some luxury private, chemically treated, green lawn golf course in as hot as it is flat Texas. Perhaps Bush's relief comes from having to stop being his father's puppet in the Oval Office. Or perhaps these sham-Republican types wanted to lose the election so that the Democrats can be kept busy from doing what they were voted in office to do and thus expend all their efforts (and popularity) cleaning up the consequences of the Bush Regimes merciless exploits abroad and extraordinary domestic neglect back home. (Remember when Ms. Katrina paid our nation a visit down there in New Orleans par example? Seen any new levee’s built? Heard of a reconstruction program to rejuvenate a living grand old predominately African American city)...

I don't believe Bush II should have been in office at least between 2000 and 2004 and without 9/11 his regime wouldn't have made it to now in 2006. This is why I wanted to vote straight Republican. I believe all these henchmen should be in office to clean up the mess they made and to face the consequences publicly for what we will see come back to haunt us from their irresponsibilies in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Getting Iraq convinced (ordered) to execute Saddam Hussein in time for Christmas is just the very gift these so called Republicans - The Bush's and their henchmen - have on offer as a Pandora’s Box of a present for the Democrats who have usurped the Bush regime’s position. It is not a bad idea to consider that the US reinstate Saddam in Iraq - pull out from there and let the people of Iraq do as they will with their land, society and resources. Certainly Saddam was much better at running Iraq than the Americans and perhaps even it might be said that less lives were lost or exploited in Iraq under Saddam.

Certainly Saddam was for the Americans who put him there better as the devil we knew than the devil we didn't know - known as the Anarchy that is in Iraq now. The scariest attribute about being an American in these times is how with every misinformed vote we cast, for every election we miss, or any blank vote in our ballet we don't fill in - that because we are a "Democracy" that suppose-ably rides on our backs as citizens - we are morally held accountable to our higher power for the choices we make. The consequences of whatever we fill in for our vote selections invariably have consequences we don't see much less can get accurate information on in other peoples lives. Lives sitting in US prisons (from dubious wars on drugs and terror) or lives trapped in the foreign places our nation invades in our names. To think this all might have been by tricky vote rigging over time through strategically placed members of the Bush Royal Family - in a nation that has forgotten a banking crisis with the Bush boys name all over it... Well, I wanted to vote for these guys so they can be in power to reap what they have sown when the cows of consequences come home from Iraq from the blood for oil harvest there. But I could not accept that by my casting even one vote in these Bush regimes direction because I would be held morally responsible for perpetuating their godless tactics and lack of human compassion.

Much to my regret the only choices I had, had been for a few Independents and a lot of Democrats both of whom I know nothing about: Democrats who are Democrats without a cause that don't hinge on a reaction to Bush policies. For the Democrats are without vision or beliefs and just another politician like Gore with careers to protect. Or Independents who are good for nothing at this point in the state of the states democratic process than throwing your third party vote away and giving it to the conservative minority on a silver platter.

I don't want to be American because I don't want to participate in this corrupt process and have the blood of the decisions heartless greedy tyrants in economic power make in other lands oblivious to their own strip malled and freeway'd, parkinglotted, suburbanified, razor wire protected, human resourced like oil commodities into retail slave labor - once great and majestic land in America. Neither do I want to be counted among these new Bush era Americans who were once, in previous generations, kind and genuine and excessively generous people before they became the malcontents about their neighbors (the Mexicans) in typically tribal and selfish European ways. Oh say can you see by the freeway lights of capitalism that so proudly stand over where you shop, drive, park, eat, work and sleep....