Sailing back listening to Pink Floyd’s classic Comfortably Numb. The mood of melancholia is mixed with a musical yearning for something seemingly out of my reach. As the song ends I get tossed hard into the current reality. Oh, how I wish I could replay that song ad finitum and just create a dream, a dream of being free from the mess we all find ourselves in. The mystics teach how the mass consciousness can create the weather, either moderate or heinous. So it is with the political and moral contradictions we now face as a nation.
As David Gilmour of Pink Floyd plays that guitar solo which mesmerizes me, so I yearn for a change in this climate of divisiveness. The two parts of the One Party that serves this Military Industrial Empire hack at one another like backyard fighting chickens while the crowd of spectators cheer all the blood spilled. And who suffers? Well, those of us who make up the majority of citizens, the ‘ Working Stiffs’. Meanwhile, the One Party system is subservient to the corporate world first and foremost. Yes, the so called ‘ Better half’, the Democrats, do make a better attempt to bandage our economic and actual physical wounds. Their competitors, the MAGA ruled Republicans, are the wolves who form packs that go about devouring us, all in the name of ‘ Freedom and Liberty’.
Trump and his minions and super rich donors keep dealing the race card, the No Abortion card, along with the Jesus card. Yes, they have taken The Christ hostage in their delusionary world of make believe. Don’t you know that all the undocumented AKA Illegal Aliens carry fentenyl with them over the border, as they seek women to rape and people to rob? Forget about the two brown skinned Latino workers around my corner digging up dirt and shoveling it for their foreman, a white man. Or another two brown skinned Latinos working on a roof in the next neighborhood. It’s only 90 degrees here in FLA. I should have stopped my morning walk and asked for a shipment of opiates. I passed a brown skinned Latino lady as pushed a stroller as some well off woman’s nanny. I have to call another brown skinned Latino cleaning lady that a neighbor recommended. When ( Lord NO) the MAGA crowd wins election I guess there would be plenty of ‘ Black jobs’ as Trump calls them, to take the place of the aforementioned.
Sadly, this election is not about foreign policy, because if it was then both halves of the One Party would fail my expectations. Too bad Kamala could not slowly disassociate herself from Genocide Joe in regards to Israel. Even if she just said how we could not send military aid to them until a ceasefire is agreed upon. That would get her millions of votes, regardless of the so called ‘ Israel Lobby’. For every vote that group would keep from her at least ten more would come her way. You see, the MAGA mindset has always been up Israel’s rectum, not because they love the Jewish people. No, the MAGA mindset is either about unrealistic so called ‘ Biblical Prophecy’ or else the need for unrealistic so called American hegemony in that region.
So, you can toss any illusions about this election not being vital right out the window. When the Democrats label the MAGA Republicans as Fascist, the truth hurts folks:
Fascism is a government led by a dictator who controls every aspect of the society putting the wealthy minority on top. Fascism supports totalitarian single-party state.
PA Farruggio
October 30th , 2024
The every 4-year carnival…called ‘elections’. A kindergarten on the loose.
Right on Vera!
Mr.Farruggio again hits the “accuracy” bullseye in his political commentary…the themes he critiques are not anything new in his writings,but still warrant our attention and concern -how both parties bow before corporate America,the phoniness and misdirecting of issues that affect working class America by the MAGA movement,etc .This movement is spearheaded by the Orange Cretin,who has only known and espoused a sense of entitlement that working and middle class America can only dream of.. The Democrats,on domestic issues-climate change,need to protect Social Security,and the recognition of the vital role immigrants play in America,are much more trustworthy than the majority of the Republican Party.As Mr.Farruggio has shown through his personal experiences,many of these immigrants do the backbreaking work that most American workers try to avoid-construction ,gardening, working on farms,providing health aide care to our aging parents and family members..Most importantly,Democrats will abide by the Constitution ,the Democratic process,and will not blindly follow a despotic,mysogynistic,racist white supremacist intent on punishing those who disagree with him- a buffoon who knows nothing about American history ,nor cares to..The denial of climate change,( the support for fossil fuels), and the insistence on imposing high tariffs-which will negatively impact working people -all reveal an uneducated,ignorant ,unfeeling bully who is NOT FIT FOR POLITICAL OFFICE AND BRINGS TO THE FOREFRONT QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER HE IS ACTUALLY HUMAN!
thanks for the kudos sir. When , I may ask, is your book coming out?