Blame May Ease the Guilt Of What We Have Done To This Great Nation But As POGO Says "We have met the enemy and he is us"

I always cringe when I hear this mantra. "Look at the Congress and the lobbying in Washington.  There is the problem.  Big corporations and big money run the country.  Special interest, large corporations and lobbyist run your country. Even the news media only report what they want you to know" ...  What a passive, defeatist and irresponsible act of self-delusion and complicity.


The last line, in quotes, has some truth to it.  The National Socialist in the 30's certainly seized on the power of the State propaganda machine and burned that plan into the agenda of the current day socialist.  That powerful tool of despots is often given to much credit and too little critical thinking.  We have a growing and healthy competition of ideas in print, electronically and over the air waves.  State control is getting more difficult day by day while the real responsibility rest with the citizens too lazy, distracted or uninformed to take the time to discern the lies from the half-lies. 


We have a corrupt, sickening, amoral Press in this Nation because we buy it and we demand it just as we have cocaine because we demand it.  Everybody may well hate the drug dealer but he is needed by many and protected by more.  Same with the media.  They give you your dose of bullshit and you don't think and don't have to think.  We are the problem as much as the dealers and the propagandist.  They prosper by nurturing the useful fool.


"We get the government we deserve" and blaming it on/scapegoating some mythical, spooky, unnamed "corporations" and politicians is a cop-out.  As Pogo said "We have met the enemy and he is us."  This mess, these corrupt businesses and a "corrupter" government are of our own making.  No amount of false blame can take that fact away nor forgive us for wasting a God given chance to be different from history.  We were not helpless, we just acted that way. 

We handed our Republic over to the scum of the Earth.  We gave up on our children's education and left it to corrupt, greedy and undedicated union bosses.  We allowed every demigod who wanted to keep alive the insanity of racism to do it and to profit by it while enslaving the previously enslaved.  We allowed our Nation's traditions to be sacrificed to the whims of a group of radical fools filled with hatred and envy. 


There is no grand conspiracy; there are those working night and day for the destruction of this Republic.  There is no "mythical corporation" executing a master plan for the Nation; there are corrupt hordes of businesses finding it easier to bride, extort and intimated rather than competing in the marketplace.  There is no great cabal of politicians and their cronies pulling the strings on every minute of your life; There are sleazy politicians, national socialist, Marxist and communist union bosses who will lie, cheat, steal and murder to kept the power and money that they worship.  But the real villain is looking down on these words.

While the bogey-man may ease the guilt of the crime it is still a crime in what we have done to this great Nation.  "We have met the enemy and he is us" as Pogo long ago said.  We have a choice to make; do we take it back or do we ooze into oblivion.