The Splendors of the War Criminal

YOU ARE NOT FASCIST, BUT YOUR COUNTRY IS:
The Splendors of the War Criminal
 
The remedy to power is to simply withdraw that consent. – Murray Rothbard

For the second time in less than a decade Americans have gone out to the polls and reelected a war criminal.  2012 was very much 2004, years in which the people of a country could not see past their own boxed in ideologies and decided to go and vote when in reality there was no actual choice to be had.  They should have stayed home.  In these two years, not only were criminals given the reward of more power, but they were given consent to take even more rights away than they did in their first four years.  The worst picture painted on election night is right after this consent is given.  We see masses of people celebrating their very own natural human rights being legislated and executive ordered away; tearful, wondrous celebrations of their very own indefinite detention.  So while 60 million voted one way, we were sadly just over 2 million votes away from a different regime with very much the same views of authoritarian power. 

Over 100 million Americans chose abuse over enlightenment.

It is a terrible position for people to be put into.  Essentially we have a choice between a man who promises to murder thousands, and the other who speaks the rhetoric of peace while actually murdering thousands.  How did we get to this point?  The illusion of choice has become strong within our society, an illusion that has us believing there are two teams in existence within this political structure, and that one is more evil or less evil when they are both evil all the same.  Those who choose to vote are celebrated while the individuals who choose to opt-out are derided for their conscious decision.  Even those who do vote, but do so for a third party in protest of the corporatist party, are considered fools for wasting their vote.  Patriotism is reserved for those who choose to reelect war criminals.  The bright minds of the future are those who are bribed with their own money. 

The opt-outers of the abusive federal system, in which there were at least 100 million, aren’t even considered.

Revolution will never come by casting a vote.  Men who gain enough money and advertising to head the corporatist state have clearly been bought.  They have made promises to nefarious people and they have lied to millions.  It is not a problem for them to have blood on their hands or to take in billions of dollars through force and act as if they have the know-how in which to distribute it.  These are not men with great courage.  They are men who simply have the guns and know where to point them.  Yet we still find so many people believing their promises when we should all know by now that they are just slick advertisements or flat-out lies. 

No voter can truly be blamed.  This picture of the powers that be is never painted for us because both figureheads of the one-sided coin have their very own television station.  Each station worships their own celebrity and each paints their celebrity’s equal as the evil version of themselves.  The voters no longer have access to watchful eyes that report truth (if they ever did), only promoters and handlers that shape, clean, and shine their restoration project until the rust has been scraped from the surface.  Because of this power worship, the election process has become a long-winded, never-ending reality show, and the voting class doesn’t quite understand that at the end of the game it is their own heads on the line.  The casting of ballots has become a foolish task in which we acquiesce our rights to a man who simply seeks power.  Voting is a reminder to the elected leader that “yes, they can.”

Yes, they can take away your rights.

Yes, they can take your labor and your property.

Yes, they can murder whom they want.

Yes, they can waltz into any country they please and join in on the oppression that already exists there.

The worst part of the continuation of this self-abuse is that you cede ownership of your life and will.  They own it now.  Yes, they do.

You are the splendors of the war criminal.