The Politics of Failure

I love all this US election crap/coverage that's just everywhere. Just 11 more months of hell everyone! Then we get a kinder, gentler Bush who will abandon Iraq and bomb Iran, waffle on Palestine and just maybe sign up to the Bali Declaration despite the lack of any meaningful targets. Phew, then we can all relax and get back to the mall.

The "development" of the tar sands and all those greenhouse gases already mean that Canada is automatically out of any future agreement.

Anyway in the spirit of the election season I encourage you to rent The Simpsons Little Treehouse of Horror VII and watch Citizen Kang. Watch out for great lines like:

"My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, but tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom."

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"Abortions for all." [crowd boos]
"Very well, no abortions for anyone." [crowd boos]
"Hmm... Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others." [crowd cheers and waves miniature flags]

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"The politics of failure have failed. We need to make them work again. Tomorrow, when you are sealed in the voting cubicle, vote for me, Senator Ka... Bob Dole."

Or insert Senators Obama, Clinton or McCain; Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee or (shudder due to his dweebishness) Rudy Guiliani.

Perhaps we'd be better off with aliens or apes as our masters. Either way, I'm learning that putting your power in other people's hands is a bad idea. Electing one person isn't going to save the world (despite all our hopes) given the nature of the system that exists based on endless growth on a finite planet. We need to take steps on our own.