Political Parties And The Death of Nations

Twelve score and five years ago the United States of America declared independence from the oppression of a single, arbitrary monarchy. Imperfect as that declaration was it was a big step in the right direction. More people gained liberty from oppression, though sadly not exactly for all. 

So that challenge from day one, the one on page one of the constitution, was much more of a mission than we've ever bothered to understand: go forth and form a more perfect union. It was the founders way of telling us that they knew they weren’t perfect. Because a threat to liberty anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. And as God was their witness they knew damn well that they never quite honored that “all men are created equal” bit.

Seven score and nineteen years ago the northern side of an almost one-hundred year old union set out to correct that “liberty and justice for all” brain fart. It was the bloodiest conflict the Union had, and still has ever seen. No foreign enemy has ever incurred more deaths on Americans than Americans themselves. I mean, don’t get me wrong: had Hitler or the Soviet Politburo not been stopped that self-owned wound would have been tragically dwarfed. 

One score ago some cave-dwellers hijacked four commercial aircrafts and weaponized them against our imperfect union. A union they accused of all the evils in the world - as if the evils that they incur on their own people are magically exempt from their messed up sense of cave-justice. 

The US today is not so much at a crossroads as it is at the edge of a cliff. It has managed to successfully fight oppression from monarchy, slave mongers, fascism, and even Stone Age cave dwellers. It’s been at the edge of this cliff before. Cornered here by itself actually - seven score and nineteen years ago. But something ominous has happened: the same two internal forces that drove us to that Civil War cliff never quite went away. Sadly, one of those forces went into “sleeper cell” mode. The kind we often accuse foreign threats of spawning, like the alien mother in hibernation.  

One score ago America’s domestic sleeper cell was awoken, on the day the two towers were fallen. The no-longer-sleeping alien mother took one look at the two ruling parties of America and picked one to assimilate by eating its insides. Temporarily disguised as a legitimate political party it swiftly pushed the US back to the edge of the cliff. 

The enemy within always has and always will be our own worst enemy. We are now way overdue to declare independence from an archaic party system. A party system that has incurred more damage on our own people than monarchy, fascism, communism, and stone-age cave dwellers combined. I’ve crunched the numbers already, like a hundred times since I thought to myself: this can’t be right. I’m not going to rehash those numbers now, please do your own math. But no matter how you shuffle the numbers, these two American parties, whether you think one is benevolent and the other one is an Alien bitch, are not going to walk away from their gravy train. Even if they know it might save our country, they will sooner conduct it off the cliff.