so, try to have a voice and stand up against the government because you feel their corruption is illegal, then the government will most likely be watching over you even more so. there have already been several reports of this occurring for those who lead major war protests. so much for our right for free speech. oh, and democracy…here in the united states? that’s basically a joke. if anything, we are quickly turning our backs on democracy in favor of a dictatorship as our rights continue to be taken away from us and our fine president assumes absolute power. why are we trying to promote democracy in other foreign countries when we can’t even get it together on our own soil? we have a president and executive branch who will misuse their executive power to do anything and everything they want no matter what congress or the rest of america says. isn’t it supposed to be a government of the people, by the people and for the people? so, you still think we are a democracy now?

then we have all of the major news media outlets catering to the same level of corruption and lies… fox news (especially fox news), cnn, etc. they feed the public the same lies that the administration wants them to. most are owned by clear channel, a major media corporation who i’m sure has a strong political lobby and influence.

and now the united states dollar is on the edge of the abyss, quickly declining in value at or below the support level of 80. the referenced article states that “More and more investors are coming around to the fact that the USD is dead and people do not want to hold this rapidly devaluing paper anymore. When the USD breaks 80, the whole world will see a big sell signal and this influx of people dumping dollars will send the greenback down into the abyss and its anyone’s guess how far it can fall, but it will fall…a lot.” the dollar is tanking due to the trade deficit. the canadian dollar is worth just about as much as the us dollar. that is fucking unheard of. the euro which has only been around for 4 years is worth $1.34. four years ago was worth 80 cents.

to top it all off, we have a population here in america who could basically care less about all of this. they go about their daily lives that seem all “fine and dandy” (ugh i really hate cliches) and oblivious to reality. they think none of this affects them (yeah, a pretty self-centered, unintelligent approach). so what can we do?

i don’t have the answers. trust me, if i had an answer on what could possible turn things around for this country i would be one of those at the front of the line leading. we live in a country where millions of people can protest against something, but it will never get airtime on our major news networks. we live in a country where there’s a major outcry for clinton’s impeachment, which was success, for a bloody blowjob, but yet no one gives a damn about the hundreds of other illegal things bush and cheney have done. no matter how many people support the impeachment of both bush and cheney, it will never happen. we live in a country where the separation between church and state is quickly becoming non-existent. all they have to do is talk about their overly dangerous neo-conservative and religious values behind everything and the majority of this country will see eye-to-eye with them. there is a major difference between morals and religion–you can have morals without religion as they are definitely not one in the same.

unbelievable.