Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Friday, June 18, 2004
An Open Letter to the People of Iraq
Dear Mickey - I like your witty style. I was in bit too serious mode after reading Hoagland’s conceit in the Washington Post this past Sunday. I offer it in support of your critique of American ‘democracy.’
Dear Washington Post Editors,
Mr. Hoagland’s Sunday column contains a nice aphorism, “the perfect can be made the enemy of the good”, and it appears to be the same standard adopted by the Washington Post and other major corporate media comfortable with America’s own Mickey Mouse elections.The American electoral experience is dominated by apartheid gerrymandering and legalized bribery, where free speech means commercial speech for corporate plutocrats only, and democracy means a winner (plutocrat) take-all system that keeps the traditional racist order in place.
America is a failed democracy, easily proved by our last Presidential election and our Congressional elections in which the overwhelming majority of incumbent ‘representatives’, like the members of legislative assemblies in authoritarian nations, run facing no realistic opposition.
The rise to power of the Bush Regime and the Republican dominance of Congress with an utterly submissive Democratic opposition clearly exhibit the democratic failure rooted in a corporate money approach to civic culture: 1) Bush, Jr. was chosen by the corporate elite of the Republican Party not for his wisdom and experience but as brand name with prior customer recognition, with a little help from a ‘conservative’ Supreme Court majority willing to disregard their own principles of jurisprudence and conflicts of interest; 2) Congress funded by corporate money and organized by apartheid gerrymandering; 3) and the Democrats by their willingness to accept this incredibly anti-democratic process.
It’s time for the Post to recognize that the enemies of democracy have won in America. The Post, assuming it is an advocate for democracy in America, as well as Iraq, must fight these anti-democratic forces in order halt the ruin that our current leaders have brought upon this nation.
Without challenging our current leadership, both Republican and Democratic, and drastically reforming our electoral process to restore America’s place in the world and history as a beacon of democracy and hope, we will continue to slide into the lawlessness that flows from a political system that has been subsumed into the corporate system, leaving no checks on the power of the economic elite and eliminating democracy and free speech.
sincerely,
Patrick Love
1927 Hayes St., #4
San Francisco, CA 94117
415-273-2647Posted by Patrick on from Haight-Ashbury 06/22 at 02:16 PM
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