America's ongoing nightmare: Electing the next CINC

We just don't get it, do we!  Every four years we go through the motions of electing a president for this country, but all we are doing is choosing another commander-in-chief.  It's been decades since the military-industrial complex in America put the nation inside Pandora's Box, hermetically sealing it, standing guard so that it won't be tampered with.

So here we are, boxed in, or, for the sake of translation's accuracy, confined in a jar… and surrounded by all the evils: greed, vanity, slander, lies, envy, unfulfilled desire to rule the earth; and a limping virtue: hope… hope in a jingoistic false patriotism which hinges solely in waving Old Glory or in the wearing of a flag-pin, instead of the much-needed true love and concern for the nation and its people; all of its people.

It's the same nonsense we have always experienced in our two-way stepladder politics.  It's about short-term American political economics presented by politicians to appease the base instincts of our consumer-gluttony; it's about healthcare and education, now that we find ourselves uncompetitive, trailing most industrialized nations; it's about all those things that we never seem to care about until we start experiencing their negative effects, such as the issue of unfettered globalization, lack of an intelligent energy policy, or adequate environmental care by a government in which special interests – big business and the military for the most part – pull the strings for action that always end up diminishing and impoverishing most citizens for the sake of a ruling elite.

So every quadrennium people are being asked to vote for a president who can handle dual roles, as chief enforcer of domestic peace, and as commander-in-chief for the conquered and unconquered provinces that make up the rest of the world.  And 200 million potential voters are left to suck on their own personal lollypops, their own reason to vote to elect someone, without giving thought to the most important concerns that affect them, their neighbors, the entire nation… the entire globe: peace; the short term economic and social effects of globalization; the environmental stability of the planet; and social justice – with the corresponding human rights – for each and everyone.

Once again, Americans will be asked to vote for candidates who are, or appear to be, blind to the big picture in front of their noses: the need for world peace through dialogue; with no better place to start than solving once and for all the Israeli-Palestinian impasse, the epicenter of this turbulent world, by opening up the floodgates of accumulated hate and mistrust, emptying it all.

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