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Perhaps it’s presidents running down the whole laundry list of
issues, but it seems to me the last dozen or so State of the Union
speeches by presidents could put a galaxy of insomniacs to sleep.
Originally, the State of the Union was the president talking to
Congress. Now we all know no one from the Senate or the House is going
to move a new inch by anything the president says in his speech.
It’s just a dog and pony show. It’s also a chance for the president
to talk to the television audience. That’s the real event. The
president’s on TV.
It’s a stage play and it closes the night it opens. The script is
always too long. It should have been cut by nine-tenths in rehearsals.
The droning of the laundry list is, of course, a reflection of the
fact that big government has its paws and nose in every facet of our
lives.
I was waiting for Obama to talk about an adequate supply of toilet
paper and paper towels in public-park restrooms, and the danger of
pictures of guns brought to school.
And how about those unsightly vegetable gardens growing on front
lawns? Would be bring in the FBI and the ATF and DHS to solve that
problem?
Would he push for free sex-change operations for all college
students? Radioactive body scanners in coffee shops? I think the system
for assigning names to hurricanes and blizzards should be subjected to a
task-force study.
When tonight Obama said the only way to make progress was for us all
to work together, he didn’t just mean the Congress. He meant the
American people, aka the television audience. But I’ve never understood
that idea.
What are we all working together to accomplish? What’s the program?
Giving away more of our income to the federal government? Agreeing to
more surveillance of our movements?
Supporting the invasion of more countries? Refraining from
photographing the police making arrests? Restricting our Facebook posts
to happy faces and rainbows?
Are we all working together to surrender our guns in exchange for
movie tickets and candy? Are we pretending to be overjoyed that the
federal government wants to force everyone to get vaccinated and eat GMO
food, and take SSRI antidepressants that demonstrably cause people to
go crazy and kill others? Is that it?
Are we somehow working together to print endless amounts of money?
Are we working together to push the percentage of Americans collecting
free government money from 40 percent to 60 percent? Is that the
glorious goal?
Are we working together to give money to alternative-energy companies so they can go broke and declare bankruptcy?
Are we working together to protect and defend the World Trade
Organization, so ravenous mega-corporations can export jobs to China and
roam the global landscape, raping and pillaging resources and labor?
Are we working together to accept Obamacare, which will steadily
eliminate natural-health alternatives and enroll more people in a
medical system that kills 225,000 people (actually a lot more) every
year like clockwork? Is that the goal?
Are we working together to pretend we have two very different major
political parties in the country, instead of one party with two heads?
Are we working to assure that no bankster is ever sent to prison for scamming the American people out of trillions of dollars?
Are we working together to take guns away from people who would only
use them to defend themselves and their families against criminals,
while at the same we work to ignore gang violence stemming in part from
the fact that Mexican drug cartels use these gangs as subcontractors,
under the protection of the federal government?
Are we working together to imagine that our troops are really fighting wars to protect and defend the nation?
Are we working together to hide the fact that, although interest
rates are artificially low, we’re spending more and more money every
month to buy what we need to survive?
Are we working together to hamstring every small business in America with red tape and taxes?
Are we working together to ignore the absurd insanity called
climate-change science, so the government can install carbon taxes and
penalties and lop the top off of American industry?
Are we all working together to frame attractive free incentive
packages for unlimited numbers of immigrants who come to America, while
untold numbers of Americans are going hungry every night, and people
can’t find jobs anywhere? Is that the objective? Destabilization of
society, under the cynical guise of humane gift-giving?
Are we working to dream that when the president says he’s going to
focus on jobs in his second term, this means he’s actually going to do
more than squint at the sun?
Are we working to find more foreign enemies we can invade, as our
military advance teams pave the way for imperial corporations and
continue to launch some sort of ridiculous “surround Russia” operation?
Are we all working together to drown the Third World in “free”
medical drugs and vaccines that destroy immune systems, rather than
cleaning up contaminated water supplies and installing simple sanitation
systems (at a millionth of the cost of the drugs)?
Are we all working together just “to work together” and continue the fine tradition of destroying the nation from the inside?
That’s what I thought. Yes, that’s what I thought.
Hell of a speech, Mr. President. You and GW and Bill and Bush the
Elder and Ronnie and Jimmy and Gerry and Nixon really know your laundry
lists. You talk, and the government gets bigger. It’s magic.
There’s always more to do and the government has to make it happen. Otherwise, what are you there for?
I ask myself that question all the time. I’m still looking for an answer, other than, “We’re all in this together.”
Who is this WE you keep taking about? And what is this TOGETHER? You
mean we who are watching on television and you who are talking on
television? You mean you who are slicing the Constitution into little
pieces while ridiculing it as a Neanderthal document?
You mean you who are covert agents of Globalism? You mean you who
have been vetted to make sure you’re on board with the op to take
American down into a planetary management system that will bring a
thousand years of peace to people made over into androids?
That’s what I thought.
You talk and the government gets bigger. You bankroll education and
students are brainwashed into “uplifting social themes,” and become more
dumb. You talk and the state-corporate media strain themselves into
hernias to praise your erudition or passion.
You talk and thousands of lobbyists who have the inside track on your
souls parse your words and plan their new strategies. You talk and the
American people desperately try to imagine you’re making a grain of
sense.
You talk and the winds blow and the snow falls and Somebody Actually
Important, at a much higher level of the Mob, pats you on your shoulder
and folds you up like a puppet and drops you in his pocket and walks
upstairs to the Residence and puts you to sleep.
Asleep, you dream of a strange and alien thing: the freedom and power
and independence of the individual. For you, it’s a nightmare.
The author of an explosive collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California.
Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an
investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics,
medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine,
Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe.
Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.
Thanks for listening.
