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The Old American Lie

 

 

Enough with the quixotic drama of politics. The senseless cacophony of discourse that follows the immovable bickering of our government, Democrats, Republicans, and all others who bother with the notion of politics are some of the most humorous and crude men and women in our country, those who are so immersed in their supposed infallibility. It has devolved into a bad genre in which no meaningful contribution or imperative thought is expressed; it has become a fruitless and unending struggle between two hopelessly ignorant forces.

 

Neither political entity truly hopes for a moral and proper resumption to our country's constant decadence. Are the poor and subjugated farmers of the West expected to join in the trivial game of politics when their wages remain unchanged? Are they expected to swoon in immense joy when they see their “relatable politicians”? Pompous real estate tycoons without the slightest inkling of knowledge regarding their lackeys. Or the urban workers, are they expected to throw their hands in the air when their decrepit stockbrokers promise action? “Pending on the election, of course.” But certainly, this knowledge must surely develop the same immediate response; you cannot abandon the process! Vote and participate, for you matter just as well! Now, this response is partially correct; the workers and the proletarian hordes matter, but why must they matter in a set “political” apparatus that refrains from showing them the slightest shred of compassion?

 

They ought to instead embrace their power, but not concentrate it into the most decadent process in our country; rather, we would be perfectly inclined to utterly do away with that process altogether. Instead, we enforce the perfect consequence of centuries of economic indignity and the old game that common folk don't play, this old game of politics. The worker has the means and moral justification to do away with it and establish a new, perfect society. One where surely the common man controls himself. Are we not justified, and even propelled, to pursue our happiness? But our happiness is only obtained in the absence of our current society. Not in its gradual change, to be completely free of profanity in my saying so; the worker has been praying for a gradual change for 200 years.