For Now, It’s Probably the Same Ol’, Same Ol’

 

I need to let it all settle down, this election; but I have a few counterweight issues to think about in light of our apparent losses.
Politics is an ever-energized process. Never any time to sit back and rest on laurels – even when there aren’t any to rest on. The expectations are always far too high in the electric atmosphere of an Obama win and a takeover of the house of Congress. Problem is – those expectations are impossible to meet – especially in the deepest economic downturn in modern history. Barely an adult alive who recalls the Great depression. It’s all new and the collapse of everything must be blamed on someone and that someone is whoever’s in office at the time, to wit: incumbents of every stripe.
 
Since the common man or woman cannot dismantle the corporations that got us into this mess, they rush to dismantle the institutions they have the power to: governments at all levels. 
You cannot take a man’s or woman’s job from them, and/or their health care (once reliably provided by employers, but no more) and/or their pensions (also provided in some measure or another by their employers, but no more), and expect them not to lash out. Add to this that the same machinery the government bailed out with our money also may have taken their homes away, and there’s not an incumbent alive today that won’t feel the brunt of the  rage resulting from this out-and-out assault on the middle class.
But again, the middle class cannot take down the banking system, the real estate industry, the insurance companies or strip the investment bankers (not to mention all other consumer industries that have ripped them off); they can only take their government apart, incumbent by incumbent, until the message they want to convey hits home.
But, here’s their continuing illusion: that any government bought and paid for by corporate America and the contractors that wage war in our name will be any different than the one they removed, because it’s the system, not its occupants, that are so corrupted and co-opted by the same corporate America that sent their jobs overseas and now refuse to lend them the money to get them back on their feet and doesn’t really care that the middle class survives beyond consuming the goods and services produced by slave and child labor overseas.
It’s a system in total ruin because the subsystems created to control the greed and overreaching Dwight Eisenhower warned us about almost 60 years ago are now completely controlled by the very same people they were designed to regulate.
And as soon as people march in the streets to protest this and the wars we’ve created and maintained to control the world’s resources they’re met by raging renegade police officers who say such demonstrators are terrorists and that they’re acting in the name of law and homeland security to protect us from those terrible people: us. This, when they’re doing nothing less than dispatching forever any semblance of the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution – all sanctioned by Barack Obama and his FBI and other security forces. Barack Obama – for whom expectations shot through the roof to the point of an impossible dream, supports all of this pro-corporate, pro-contractor, war-mongering behavior as if this should be the norm for the UNited States of America.
I really don’t know if we can recover any semblance of almost any part of the US Constitution. But we’re dreaming if we think that by throwing the bums out, we’re changing much of anything.