What We Need....

To:-- The Boston Globe

Re:-- The Usual Misfocus and Misinformation.

In the absence of a socialist candidate I am going to vote for my dog. We need to stop fussing over personality issues and squabbling over scraps from the table. It is imperative that Americans grow up and look real issues in the face, issues like a planet verging on eco-struction, lost civil liberties, impoverishment of the working classes (that's YOU bub) and bankrupting, murderous foreign wars.

What we call the "United States" is simply the user interface for plunder capitalists ruling through bought politicians and a prostituted corporate media.-- all of which would prefer we think about anything other than the real issues. Instead the New York Times publishes "learned" articles entitled "Feeding the Rich Feeds the Poor." (For real).

We need to alter our economy and lifestyle in fundamental ways so as to save the planet from destruction. We need to repeal the Patriot Act and the National Security Fear State. We need national single payer health care and we need free-merit based education so that young people don't start life off $100,000 in debt. We need decent housing and pensions for old people so that they don't have to eat cat food in hovels. We need to stop being self-righteous pricks and learn from other social-democracies who have attained higher and happier standards of living in all respects.

Lastly we need to put an end to AIPAC's disastrous blackmailing political power. AIPAC and a whole cadre of pro-Israeli and Likud-linked "think tanks" have played a major role in embroiling the US in a vicious, futile and bankrupting policy in the Middle East, based on the ultimate and insane premise that Israel is made more secure be degrading all of its neighbors and by artfully weasling out of every compromise that could possibly result in a Palestinian state. We should not have to pay with our lives and treasure for this insanity -- no matter what the Boston Globe's editorial pages say.

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