My joy in this election result comes from sticking it to the
mainstream media. Apparently ridicule
can only go so far, or loses its efficacy once the insult has been cast and the
laughing has subsided. A liberal media? Fuck that.
The mainstream media are basically the cheerleaders of Corporatism and ignorance
– don’t think motherfucker, consume.
How long has it been since the mainstream media has served the people instead of simply serving the people to advertisers?
(There are some bright spots in the press: Democracy Now, The Intercept . . . Russia Today – really a Russian news agency that
does a better job than most American outlets.)
And joy from watching the election coverage as the
commentators grappled with the idea that not everyone is a college-educated
bandwagon-rider who benefits
from the system (i.e. enviro-destruction with a green face, off-shoring of
jobs, militarism, and finance, finance, finance) like they are. Fuck them!
And really a fuck you to the average American whose wagons are
ridiculously tied to this bandwagon so mindlessly, emulating those they
actually have only a tenuous connection to – most of that connection comes from
laughing at the ridicule heaped on those who want to change the
system. Wake up! Where do you truly get rewards from? Who is making you throw your goddamned
God-stamped morals out the window? Don’t
you realize it? Break the fucking spell!
And to see the reaction by media pundits, anchors and show
host: what is it that you decry in this election result? What garners such looks of disbelief and
shock and your outraged responses? Surely
not your complicity in the system that has steadily impoverished the average
American? Surely not you lack of
coverage of the increasing wealth gap, the freezing of any increase in real
wages over the last 40 years? Surely
not your lack of covering the link between policy
and arms manufacturers? Surely not
calling out the bullshit companies that make so-called “food” and that you so
hungrily accept advertising money from? How
can you criticize someone newly elected president who has not done anything
with the office yet while at the same time have such a damning laundry list of
misdeeds and inaction hanging around your neck?
Fix that goddamned problem first.
Trump may prove to be whatever, whatever, etc. – we’ll find
out soon enough. And his average
follower is most likely a fucking moron – that typifies Americans supporting
both of the candidates this election anyway.
But, to my sources of joy: hooray!
for the sentiments of change and hooray! to the ridiculous confusion of
mainstream culture.
You've done well conveying the raw emotion and anger that a lot of people are feeling. I still think there's a strong element of moral superiority driving the divide in this nation and it is to the benefit of those in power. If the peasants hate one another, no one will overthrow the king. That sort of thing. This is how whites benefited in the past from minorities hating each other. I'm thinking of the Texas border culture specifically here. Now it's an established oligarchy benefiting from minorities and poor whites hating each other. And whites have voted based on their white identity. And liberals? They should be protesting the electoral college, the filibuster, the two party system. But not Trump, a figurehead, the mere symptom of the problem.
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