#36 “Washboard Abs and Bacon Cheeseburgers”

Dear Don1001,

I’m clueless; I don’t even know what day it is. After the announcement of Obama ’s re-election campaign, I’ve been eating as much opium as a man my age should do, I haven’t had a bowel movement in three days. I think I probably need to lay off the poppy juice and start eating some roughage, but fuck it, I’ll push on through till I reach the “truth” that exists on the other side of the wall, whatever that is. I’m just trying to get a handle on a world where a supposed liberal like Obama acts like a neo-con and then gets blamed by reactionary  wing-nuts for being a Communist. Does anybody have a clue of what the political spectrum is anymore? Seriously, if you put a gun to most people’s head and asked a simple question “Tell me the difference between a Fascist and a Communist, or you die”, there would be bodies all over the streets. Yet these political philosophies lie on opposite ends of the political spectrum. It’s absolutely amazing how many people participate in the political process and have never figured out exactly what their political viewpoint truly is, or they would see the apparent contradictions in what they believe. Like being anti-abortion because all life is special but being for Capitol punishment. Wanting Social Security and Medicare but shunning single payer health insurance because it’s socialist. You want less taxes and smaller government but don’t mind if the CIA, FBI and NSA spend huge sums of money to indiscriminately wiretap innocent American citizens. Folks, what we have here is a failure to connect with what we say and what we truly believe, and if the country doesn’t come to grips with these apparent contradictions soon, the so-called leaders of this country are going to run this crazy train off of the tracks. It’s like wanting to have “six-pack” abs but you don’t workout or stop eating bacon cheeseburgers and double orders of fries. Those washboard abs aren’t going to happen and neither is the U.S. going to have a chance at any sort of a future unless we come to grips, what the fuck, we truly want, as a people, a nation, as a culture. Right now America is in love with the myth not the reality. We don’t want to pay taxes, but we want the best schools, highways and the best healthcare. We want democracy and justice, but we don’t vote and we will do anything not to serve on a jury.  We want good leaders, yet we won’t take the time to read intensively about the candidates or the issues that they represent. Yet we feel the right to be righteously indignant at the way things are and how fucked up the Congress truly is. Right now, this country needs to look in the mirror and come to grip with the enemy.

                      In a search for the light, Brother Gregory

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