(Most of this post was written the week before the presidential election. My last few entries were challenged and a solution was requested by a faithful reader. I am not a politician nor have I a political science degree so most of this post is speculative.)
We need real political conventions, not these product-placement-driven pep-rallies and slander-fests…
The last administration has been filled with incompetence. Personally, I don’t hate George Bush. He seems like a nice guy. I dated a woman for a short time who’s family knew him socially. Needless to say, we never talked about him much... He stood up and responded accordingly to the terrorist threat, at least to the best of his narrow-minded abilities. However, his competency has never been questioned. Why? His atrocious handling of the Katrina disaster, the gung-ho mentality that threw us into a horribly-run war in Iraq… What an irresponsible action, to go into a country forcibly and search for WMDs. If they actually HAD WMDs we would have enticed a direct attack on US soil. Didn’t anyone think of that? Apparently not. How lucky we are you were wrong, Little Bush. The lies and deception… Yet we chose not to pursue impeachment… But we canned Clinton… What a fucking joke.
Bush is not a bad guy. He just didn’t have a strong enough of a personality to stand up to his advisors… namely Cheney. And he was led into some shitty decisions that, unfortunately for him, will be his legacy. And unfortunately for us, could have easily enslaved us forever.
The question has been posed to me. What would one nation under CORDOVA look like? And I’m here to answer this question to the best of my ability.
Desperate times call for desperate measures… therefore I say in the name of expediency we would go on a 10-year plan of social reform that would include much of the healthcare plans and the taxation plans proposed by Obama. The truth is we cannot fund change without cracking some eggs. And if the American public think it’s possible to fund a revitalization of the country without taxation, I say you all are selfish moronic fools who should have taken finances courses instead of 3 years of ceramics for electives. Pulling out of the war would free up BILLIONS a month, even after putting in place a memorial fund to the fallen soldiers who were thrown to the lions. To that I would add my own brand of Cordovaism.
-Put a limit on children born to new families. 2 children per new household. If you choose to have more children you are taxed for each additional child. For each child born over the limit the penalty goes up exponentially. This money goes directly to the appropriate agencies to pay for the costs of running the program.
-give major tax breaks for life for all adults over 40 who have voluntary hysterectomies or vasectomies.
-Nationalize the record-breaking profits of the petroleum companies who are making a killing during an energy crisis. Take 95% of the revenues over the gross average culled from the past 5 years (starting 3 years ago, to not include the outrageous profits during the energy crisis) and put it directly towards developing reusable energy programs.
-put a high tax on all SUV’s and RV's. If you own one your insurance is higher and the funds go directly into alternative fuel production. Alternately give tax breaks for owning small cars and hybrids.
-release all bans on pre-fabricated housing within city limits and give tax breaks to green builders, allowing grey water systems and solar heating nationwide (they are currently outlawed in Texas) and incentives for builders of mass housing incorporating green technology.
-Close the American borders to all immigrant traffic. Let no new nationals enter the US nor apply for citizenship for 10 years. Do not deport but tax illegal immigrants already here an extra 5% and have those funds go to running the Boarder Enforcement agency for the first 5 years of the Plan. After that, all illegal immigrant families are granted full citizenship but must strictly adhere to reproductive limitations expected of all Americans.
-New families must apply for parentship licenses. The couple must pass a series of tests and studies to prove a base level of proficiency to give birth and raise a child. Those who do not pass will be given another chance in 6 months. If the couple procreates without a license they will be taxed accordingly directly from the employer. These funds will go to parentship education.
-Force all drivers to take driving tests for every license renewal. And if they can’t pass demand anther full fee for another test. (Hell, we’d make BILLIONS annually off this one fee alone AND keep shitty drivers off the streets) And raise the penalties for driving without insurance and infringement-related offenses.
-impose a ceiling on welfare. Discourage mis-use by penalizing people who take disregard the new procreation laws and take funding away for families of 4 or more who consistently infringe. This is not against the Constitution, this is an enforceable system that will call for all families to be held accountable for their own decisions.
-complete consentual support and endorsement of sex education starting in elementary school.
-nationally regulate the Federal Reserve and make them publicly accountable for their actions.
-raise the pay for educators and get the American average for testing scores up to an gobal level.
-Give special financial assistance to science and math majors and give the upper percentile direct exposure to the top infrastructure jobs in America.
-in urban centers have a renewal of cleanliness and hire the homeless to beautify the city’s public centers, lakes, and roadways that are not being tended to by prison inmates.
- Instill a committee to keep church and state separated
Ok, I think it’s evident that I’m not a politician or a law-maker. But the reforms I would make would be standard stuff. Many were concerned I’d make a call to arms. The fact that I think we could have used a good civil war in the past 5 years does not mean I would create one if I had the chance. Unfortunately, I believe the war would begin once the reforms started and good things were happening in the country, much like the true original rebels in Star Wars (Episode 1-3) were fighting to instill the Galactic Empire, not free themselves from it. Our enemies are strong and bold and in their own minds have God on their side, very much like Al Qaeda. They believe they have special dispensation to instill their will on the country, and that makes them dangerous to everyone.
We are finding out that, no, America does NOT run the world. Obie will not solve the country’s problems in a single term for a myriad of reasons. Because it’s not just America that need fixing. It’s a global economy, the debt we owe to other countries and how it is handled, that is what will define the American economy. And his enemies will site HIM as the reason, but anyone with any insight will know that it is an algebraic equation that we are only a single variable in.
In the case of this detestable campaign I believe we should learn a lesson: Disagree but don’t disrespect. Making fun of Sarah Palin on SNL is one thing, but, yes, slamming her was not a smart thing to do during the election. We appear to be elitist when we criticize her obvious fundamentalist, short-sighted and simpleton mentality. It is not an issue of one side being SUPERIOR to the other but rather a shift in base priorities. She’s a Christian Fundamentalist. And there are so many people from the same background who support her. Revealing her for the media whore she is doesn’t enlighten her supporter, it causes resentment. Voters have to attach doubts to their vote if it’s money at the heart of an issue, but they don’t have to attach doubts if someone is making fun of them. It becomes personal. And because of what our country’s media has fed us for DECADES, we let our pride get in the way of our intellect and we vote with our HEARTS instead of our MINDS. But our hearts are tainted. As well as our minds. Talking about impartiality and bi-partisanism is one thing and putting those concepts into everyday play in out lives is quite another.
This election shouldn’t have ever been close, but we made fun of those candidates (however deserving it may have been) and the people they represent- and easily could have caused a backlash that could given them the race. I thank God and all that is holy under His auspices that that DIDN’T happen…
The McCain/Palin ticket was the worst run campaign in history, which was interesting to watch in a political sense. The people interviewed at Mac’s camp can’t even pronounce Muslim… it doesn’t do much for their credibility. And the footage of hate-mongering slogans shouted out against Obama at the Palin rally were never addressed and denounced by her, even after she was informed of the severity of their content. But in a big sense the Republican party is simply preaching to the choir. Either you’re with them or against them; within this new millennium identity of the GOP there is no middle ground for converts to occupy or ponder. They have chosen to polarize themselves from the rest of the political world like an elitist club who can’t imagine why anyone would ever argue with their beliefs or want anything more than what they offer. And again perception becomes reality because they are in actuality engaging in the same level of prejudice that they accuse the Obama camp of perpetuating. I know what you are, but what am I?
This election has polarized the nation. I myself have redefined many relationships with certain people because of their political view, something I have personally never done in my life. I will choose to exclude many from my personal life from now on, realizing I want nothing to do with those who have complete disregard for me as a tax-paying thinking contributing member of society simply because I’m not married and am without children. And again, on another level, it has become war.
There is no way either candidate could possibly fix the problems we face as a country and a SOCIETY in a single term. In the end, breeders wanted Mickie C and single, self-made people wanted Obie. And the two parties are NATURAL ENEMIES. Personally, I look at the long-term ramifications of the election. I am single and know I will pay a higher tax bracket because this country’s template is built to be prejudice against adult singles. I want America to be SMARTER, more intelligent. I want children to get an EDUCATION more that street knowledge and sexy television shows. Education is the key to everything. Not military might. Look what happened to Germany... they were the greatest military strength in the world and though it took the rest of the world's forces combined, they fell. Hard. And for good reason. Do you honestly believe all of the propaganda of our humanitarian efforts? It all depends if you blindly believe that America still exists as a political and economic concept or if you perceive that we are being fed only the information we need to keep us satiated while the aristocracy (i.e. politicians/pharmaceutical companies/oil industry) rape us blind. But if we have enough children and debt we will not rock the boat because we have precious things to lose. People are polarized because of their lifestyle. This was no easy election. And either way it could have herald the beginning of the end of our 'Roman Empire'...
So many things are shrugged off as paranoia, conspiracy theories… Personally, I believe all that psychological terminology was created just to discredit people who genuinely have knowledge the rest of us don’t. Reverse psychology to discredit the opposition. Standard textbook propaganda 101…
And in response to many of the Republican views after losing the election: Please don't infer that 'liberals' are not intelligent enough to see that the media controls the thought processes for the entire country. It is a lack of morals and sex education in school that keep the youth ignorant of their own bodies and urges. Just because parents want to pretend sex doesn't exist at that age does not mean it doesn't. This huge rift in education is an all-out form of suffragette on a non-gender-specific level. The truth is the atmosphere in America CONDONES single-parent families and even ENCOURAGES the practice, seemingly. With modern psychology we have eradicated personal responsibility and given everyone in America a false sense of ENTITLEMENT to live, work, speak, and procreate at will. Therefore, young depressed, uneducated and misunderstood females caught in the headlights of modern media expectations are looking to have CHILDREN to give their seemingly empty and meaningless lives purpose. These same people bring their children up in the same atmosphere they did, devoid of any education of sex and emotional maturity and dare to wonder why their children become parents as teens. Don't point fingers at the artists and business people who create film and television- we are sharks and that is their point of our existence: to devour you all. No, point fingers instead at the parents who refuse to tell their children IT’S ONLY A MOVIE and reinforce that real life should not be lived like an HBO film. TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Nurture curiosity in your children so they discover that there is an ALTERNATIVE to mindless selfish procreation.... Think of it as defensive driving for your genitalia.
And for the record, in a truly FREE America we would be able to have a comfirmed Muslim run successfully for President. But with the inherent prejudices in ‘heartland’ American thinking (i.e. WHITE PEOPLE-thinking) it will never happen. Just like there’s no way in Hell an atheist would ever be elected. Land of the free... yeah, whatever…
We have to watch Dogma and its terrible influence on logic and reasoning. The fact that I was raised Roman Catholic and have issues with the prevalent “Stepford” quality of the society and their archaic stance on marriage and abortion… that I have spent my life trying to resolve. We are a society that has the ability to take control of our lives and our thoughts for the first time in the history of the Human Race. Why would we possibly choose to keep ourselves in the Dark Ages? What good could possibly come out of denying our intellectual right to EVOLVE, spit in the face of knowledge, and choose to live like animals, bound by our superstitions and empty religious beliefs? Religion is for the LEARNED man. Unfortunately, it was found to be a tool to enslave the weak-minded since the beginning of it’s conception. Remember, RELIGION IS MAN’S CREATION. Spirituality is something completely different. What God would want to keep His greatest creation in the dark? Yes, supposedly Adam and Eve were punished for desiring KNOWLEDGE but I believe it was only because God knew THEY WERE NOT EVOLVED ENOUGH TO HANDLE IT. How many of us stumble through our lives perpetuating ignorance for our own gain, manipulating our loved ones to get what we want? I know I am guilty of that. But at least I never tried to subvert the entire WHOLE OF SOCIETY.
This will be the last political post from Johnny Cordova for a while. I have received some amazing and supportive feedback but just as much opposition. I don’t have the heart to beat the truth into you. That’s for your parents, your church, your wife, your husband, your brattish children and ultimately the State to do. No, I refuse to be another voice in the cacophony clamoring for your attention. Either you are open or you are not. And in many ways I am not here to convert. I will not waste my precious life trying to convince you of something you already know in your heart. Either that or I refuse to fight the decades of shit your brain has consumed to make you the shell of a human being you might be. Am I an elitist?
Most. Definitiely.
And I’m so fucking proud of it I couldn’t even begin to tell you. At least I can wake up in the morning and look at myself in the mirror and know I’m REAL. I may not be perfect but I’m LISTENING and I’m AWARE. I may be a lot of things but so help me God I am NOT STUPID. And if you care to join me we will embark on a wondrous journey called LIFE. If not, you are on your own. Good luck because God knows YOU WILL NEED IT.
I raise my glass to a new administration that I have SO much faith in. More faith than I could ever have in the people who have been leading us for the better part of a decade. Again, I love my country enough to want to see it fail and rebuild itself. We have already reached the bottom. Here’s to a glorious opportunity to stand behind the real tenants writtin in the original constitution, for the American people to evolve into higher organisms, and for people to finally take responsibility for their own lives. The future is clouded but we know that beyond the clouds lies a world of possibilities we’ve only dreamt of…
Are you ready?
♠ JC
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