Political Masturbation

"What's the use!?  They're all bad!  Ain't nobody got time fo dat!"

The above meme (and all it's other myriad of forms) is an ingenious, insidious, bipartisanly-applied, Republican creation that paradoxically keeps folks from participating AND keeps sending THEM (GOP) into office(to fix the terrible, 'bad' government).

As it is NOW it's either 'one side or the other' can win.

To effect change or the result you want you have to work the system that is in place now.

So you need to choose.

The thing is that this 'deception' I spoke about at the outset almost guarantees that mentally you won't have the appetite to truly and fully asses and make the only choice you always and will EVER have:

Picking the Lesser of Two Evils.

Picking the 'One that Stinks Less'.

Everyone in this country has been 'infected' by this 'intellectual virus' that ALWAYS rears in our minds, as a point of view and course of action, as a 'fever' so to speak; its 'symptom':

The mentally-lethargic indictment of both major players, accompanied by a violent 'shiver' shrugging off any sort of informed nuance or perspective and sapping away any 'energy' for basic fact checking of records, trends and history of the entities vying for your vote.

  

Democrats seem to have no answer for that hegemonic piece of genius either . . . despite witnessing it up close and personal for decades

(At times that deficit within the Left's ranks has left me cynical and suspicious . . . but even that sentiment by lefties like myself could end up propagating what I swear I'm so against.  I'll explain later.)

Back to the Democratic Establishment . . .

The DNC doesn't seem to be interested in or are unbelievably able to counteracting the growth and/or excising that 'lump' of a national, political 'cancer' that the GOP have caused to spread malignantly across all ideologies, religious faiths(even atheists!), cultures, economic classes, and ages!

It's breathtaking how interwoven this 'egalitarian condemnation' of 'all government' is in our society!

What I said in parenthesis earlier comes into play below:

Liberals prize that 'thought' on some level in that we are 'always distrustful' and simply don't 'believe' . . . so in our 'brilliance' we may make a principled vote for a third party candidate or a write-in, thinking we're standing up to the so-called 'GOP-anarchy' . . . when in fact we have just taken ourselves OUT of the overall arsenal for 'good'.

Why?

Because a vote like that doesn't really 'count'.

It's an exercise in political masturbation:

You 'help' no one but yourself 'feel good' . . . your 'spunk' gets wasted in the 'exclusive, private towels' of your own mind . . . and no one else is privy to this.

Your 'act of bravado' 'moves' no one else . . . there is no 'cooperation' . . . there is no 'alliance' that is in sync with you and your little 'rebellion'.

And republicans are just masochistic drones . . . they 'savage' and 'de-limb' themselves 24/7 going along with the GOP and spouting that garbage about government being a problem.

They can't see that the way they vote KEEPS government dysfunctional and that THE SAME ONES who they send there and keep sending . . . mucked it up in the first place!

It's a perfect, self-replicating, highly-defensively-adept mechanism for societal 'sepuki' of a caliber that we haven't seen in centuries!

The thing is that only a minuscule few stand to benefit as we gash our arteries open and bleed our future away . . .

Political Participation is a must.

You need to garner a 'political, environmentally-significant' 'win' EVERY TIME you 'play' if you are truly interested in making change.

Every 'move' you make MUST 'count' towards the 'direction' you say you want things to go.  You also must learn to defend like a rabid animal ANY gains towards that end, no matter how small and seemingly insignificant they may be.

What might be small today may be a huge asset later.

The way forward is messy and not as satisfying . . . in fact it's depressing at times . . . but nothing truly necessary and good EVER happens quickly.

Fast Food is bad for you . . . but so are Fad Politics . . . and indignant, idealistic, stubborn and reactionary political choices.

America:

Wake up and Grow Up!

The old folks used to say masturbation would make one blind . . . I'd say they're right when it comes to political habits and choices.

You have such a tight grip/focus on 'your shit' . . . you don't see what the collective sum of your actions could and will do to the larger society's social and political 'health' so to speak . . . 

If  we all go 'blind' . . . then the country is truly doomed.

(C) Dike Matthew 8/16/14