My posting background is being investigated, and I will clarify my political stance. There are many things I have written that can be interpreted as anti-American. My fight is not with the American system of governance, but with the mainstream American culture - the culture that makes an enemy of beauty, artistry, creativity and erudition and uses heavy-handed techniques to destroy the people who seek to possess these qualities. In this I fight also the mind-strangulating mentality held by the people who most loudly proclaim themselves to be normal Americans. I consider myself to be a true American patriot, for I stand by the principles on which the government of this country is _base_d and fight the biggest force that goes against these principles - the sociocultural mindset that formulates people's perceptions through artificial homogeneity of physical and social environment and through induced fear of thought and of creativity, and then claims that the people thus formulated are free and responsible citizens, while those who do not nicely submit to such brainwashing are socially deviant, irresponsible or insane. In fighting this mindset, I exert check and balance upon an unofficial and hence unaccountable authority that controls people's lives in America to a far greater extent than does the federal government. This is a social service that the founders of this country would have thanked me, and others in my position, for providing. True liberty is a matter of being free inside and implementing that freedom externally. It is not, nor can it ever be, a matter of doing what one has been conditioned to do. When heavy-handed tactics are applied from the beginning against those who have their own understanding - when it is the worst sin to think for oneself, or be different, or have creative intelligence - then the foundations of liberty, as well as life and happiness, are destroyed. Which means that the American social mainstream is antithetical to the founding principles of this country. The political discourse within the United States of America has been usurped by people who claim that they speak for what the majority in this country believes in. This is a misreading of what is democracy. A democracy is not pandering to what deceptive and brutish forces within the society have led the public to believe. A democracy is a system in which certain rights, liberties and dignities are protected. A democracy is a system that has a noble and overarching perspective and that protects from abuses by all authority, whether or not it be official. A democracy is a system in which there is dignity to human existence - dignity that the social mainstream attempts repeatedly to take away, and which the religious and psychological thought of the last 20 years sought to justify the mainstream in usurping. This usurpation has proceeded further in the name of the family. The psychology behind this con works as follows. When one thinks of the family, one instinctively thinks of one's childhood, or a state in which the voice of another person had greater authority over one's life than did the products of one's own mind and will. When a political figure speaks for the family, he seeks to have over the person the same authority. He seeks for his agenda to be immune to the scrutiny of reason. He seeks to place the person in the mindset of a helpless child, and thus for his agenda to be unquestionable. This technique is, in nature, totalitarian. And totalitarianism is indeed what those who use this technique seek to establish. Protecting one's family from foreign influences, far from being sacred, is in fact a matter of preventing people within one's family from knowing anything outside of the mindset which one seeks to induce. It is a matter of censorship; it is a matter of totalitarianism; it is a matter of preventing people from seeing the world in which they live and finding their place within it. It is a matter of bigotry and of hatred. A government protecting the American family is a government placing a psychological womb over sovereign citizens' minds and preventing them from living, exploring, learning and coming into self-determination. This is antithetical to democracy, and this is antithetical to liberty and to life. At the current point in history, democracy in America is in abeyance. In the last presidential election, the candidate that had the electoral majority - and, considering the 15000 Palm Beach County ballots in which the people incorrectly marked Buchanan then attempted to correct the error by also marking Gore, the majority in the swing state as well - was denied victory. The current government is illegitimate. The fascist mindset that ruled the country for the last 20 years in every way other than official has now become official. It started by attacking civil liberties. The next step will be attempts to rewrite the Constitution. Throughout the Clinton presidency, which was entirely legal under American system of governance, the Republicans sought to proclaim the Clinton government illegitimate. This first took the form of militias and survivalists attempting to set up their own governments, then it took the form of Kenneth Starr and Henry Hyde attempting to hound Clinton out of office. It is most certainly appropriate that the Bush presidency, which is not legal, come under the same scrutiny, especially now that it is attempting to drag the world into a prolonged war. George Will said that the moral fiber of this nation at this point in history is soft clay, to be imprinted with anything. Out of this calculation, the right-wingers have sought to take over the American system. Basically, they think the people are stupid. They think the people are weak. They think the people don't have moral courage. Some do, and some don't. But it is those on the Right, not I, that have the stance that is truly insulting to the American people. I respect them enough to want to tell them what's going on; they have enough contempt that they want to destroy democracy, pervert religion to use to enslave, take away their environment and appropriate every motive within the psyche to fuel the corporate state. In 1995, someone who portrayed himself on the Internet as the protector of the sheep, in one of his honest moments, told me that I had more faith in people than he did; that I saw potential within them that he did not. My faith pays off, every time I attract into my life a woman who has greatness inside - and every time I hear the same story. The mainstream has brutally attacked her, attempted to break her down and destroy her gifts. And each time we have to fight it together. Layo, a woman of profound literary genius, was surrounded by vileness all her life, and she had people degrading her all her life; the fringe was just as vile to her as the mainstream. Sandy, the black poetess, was basically eaten up by the ghetto, getting pregnant at age 17 because that's the kind of guidance she got and not being heard from again. The woman I love lived with a man who tried for 15 years to kill her; her art, which is the best that exists in the world today, was attacked hideously by the politically correct, and only the strength of her will and determination allowed her to remain and perfect her work. Every other woman of greatness I met experienced extreme brutality and had to fight the mainstream of the society in which she lived. Basically, American society uses barbarism, false ideologies and false belief systems to attack the stirrings of what it fails to appreciate or recognize for what it is. It does not want to be good at producing beauty; it does not want to be good at producing thought. It does not want to recognize that as a standard of computation because, at the current time, in this standard it is inferior to the Europeans and the Japanese. This is, simply, failure to be good at an endeavor rigging the value structure to deny the standard that speaks for this endeavor and destroying in its people the qualities that would turn this failure around. Which is completely dishonest and irresponsible. The tribal consciousness seeks to portray as a deviant anyone who does not buy into it, but it is itself gross, hideous, irresponsible and dishonest. And it is the biggest problem facing America (and the world) today. Well. Clinton was seen as deviant, and he brought the government that Reagan and Bush Senior bankrupted back into solvency. He presided over the greatest era of global peace and prosperity in the history of the world. I used to hear a lot of noises against Clinton; I found them frankly despicable. Life around the world improved greatly under Clinton. He was accused of lacking integrity; he more than made up for it in empathy and intelligence. And the results of his presidency were very beneficial around the world. So far, I have yet to meet a single person who has benefited from George Bush's presidency. America has declined all around the board, and many people around the world are in mortal danger. The energy behind that man is pure darkness; he is leading this country into the dark ages. So I will give the Democratic candidates a few of Bush's accomplishments to consider in 2004. - Blocking Kyoto protocols. This is criminal short-sightedness and irresponsibility that a president that runs on the platform of responsibility for the citizens is in no way allowed to have. The world had taken years of hard work to come to a real agreement to solve a shared problem. The nation that can afford reduction in CO2 emissions the most has no excuse not to lead. - Imposing tariffs on steel. A free-market Republican has no right to indulge in protectionism. This is bad-neighbor policy, this is ignorant, this is weakening, and this is against the strengths of this country. If money talks, bullshit walks - if Americans are so macho and can kick everyone's ass - then surely they can beat back some Russian and
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