4th of July. Fireworks. Hotdogs, parades, veterans, flags, songs, parties, illusions, delusions.

Go ahead and party Americans. You are the king of the world, the purveyors of righteousness and democracy. The "exceptional nation" gets to throw down it's hair and tell the world, "look at us! we're free! and you're NOT!!"

Slaves. Paul Craig Roberts had an article up yesterday, "Once Only Blacks Were Enslaved, Now We All Are".

"Democracy does not exist in America. All the bombast you will hear on the 4th is designed to keep you locked in The Matrix. The talk about “taking back your government” is nonsense. The government doesn’t belong to you. You can’t take it back. Chris Hedges says that your only alternatives are to overthrow the criminal class in Washington or to accept your slavery."

http://www.globalresearch.ca/once-only-blacks-were-enslaved-now-we-all-a...

"the only alternatives are to overthrow the criminal class in Washington or to accept your slavery."

That's right, we are being RULED by a criminal class.

There's an old rock song by the Who called "Don't get Fooled Again". Most people have heard it, many use it as a descriptor of current situations, especially around election time.

"Don't get fooled again". We have no fucking idea how true that is. I like to point out a quote by the famous Eugene Debs to show how we keep banging our heads against the wall even though many before us have provided ample warning.

“The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.”

―Eugene V. Debs



Here we are over one hundred years later and we're still chained to a corrupt political system, always waiting for the next election in hopes that this time it will be different. We were told about these two political parties long ago, why are they still here?

There are many other examples of past humans warning us of that which we still struggle against, like Ike's "military industrial complex" speech or JFK's Secret Society speech or MLK Jr's Vietnam war/U.S. imperialism speech.

We tend to think things are different now. They aren't. It's just bigger. Old sayings became old sayings because they're true, like "the more things change, the more they stay the same." We aren't any smarter now.

Take this one for example. Tell me this couldn't have been written yesterday.

“To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.



“Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.”

Frederick Douglass

Go out and party America, you've had enough fucking warnings.