Hooverville, Seattle, 1937
Whiteysphere, you elected no hope. So, youve gotten more empire and war, but of course that matters only to `those people over there, the ones not like me.’ No, what actually will matter to you, you’ve gotten no hope economics. Specifically, Mr. No Hope predictably has squandered trillions on terminally ill financial titans. You needed that money, Whiteysphere.
No hope economics means get ready in four or five months for economic Titanic. It’s already well underway, of course, but by that time happy & thrifty talk will be overwhelmed and you’ll see it on yer corporate media TV. See millions of Americans – many of them `people like you’ – living in Obamavilles. See armed security on your sidewalks as bank robberies and other people’s economic crime skyrockets. See unwashed youth prowling city streets – even in neighborhoods where `people like you’ live – begging or stealing, doing anything to feed their bellies.
On the other hand, those people way over there, the ones our empire is injuring, impoverishing, killing and de-housing, they can draw hope from the impending impoverishment of the US economic goliath and its vassals.
Hope, no hope, okay mebbe it depends on your perspective. Whatever, next time how `bout voting for a non-asshole?
Rant partly in response to an unreasonably pessimistic article on Palestine, Obama and the “Two States, and partly inspired by DavidByron ((at http://www.pffugeecamp.com/user/DavidByron) (not the asshole David Byron)), who this guy C. G. Estabrook (in Minion of the Long War) seems to be cribbing off of.
