Statecraft Informer

Sparxafire!

One of the best writers/bloggers at the Huffington Post is Steven Weber, and he just posted an eloquent and hopeful piece hoping to rouse the masses out of their stupor. I encourage any visitors to bounce around here and read a few sample posts… That’s what we do here, at Statecraft Informer. We try to understand the Bush supporters. How do their minds work? What makes them tick? What mysterious logic takes them to the conclusions that the Iraq war (Operation “Enduring Freedom!” Ha Ha! Who knew “enduring” meant troops will be there for 50 years???) is a good thing?? Ad nauseum.

Where Steven has hope for the masses, I’m afraid I must argue that that ship has sailed. As a baby boomer, I am allowed to say, “Shame on the boomers; 2007 is the world we created.” Euw. Must be so! Clinton and Bush are both boomers, too. We began our productive, adult lives in the early 70s. We are starting to turn 60 this year. What did we contribute? The electric car and reduced dependency on fossil fuels? Health care for everyone? Economic security for all? Maybe we can take some credit for developing (not inventing…) the Internet. And what is that?

Instead of using the Internet to create a true democracy, where everyone is wired in, and could vote daily on all issues facing the government, we went with porn. Interesting choice.

Name one president who has done anything to help the middle class. I remember “having hope” when Jimmy Carter promised to revamp the IRS and clean up the tax codes and eliminate the lard and so on. How’d that work out?

There are a bazillion such examples of failure. Reagan’s presidency? Oh, my. Every time I hear that damned, “Mr. Gorbechov, tear down this wall!” I laugh out loud. I see the captain of the Titanic declaring, “Mr. Iceberg, sink this ship right now!”

When was the last time the government “did” anything??? Anything at all to improve the quality of life in this country. Instead, everything they do, or fail to do, has beaten down the middle class to a bloody pulp. So here we are, one of those third-world outfits with a few wealthy at the top, and near starving masses. Recipe for revolution? You’d think so, wouldn’t you?