POSSIBLY THE DUMBEST SUPERPOWER EVER

by Malik Isasis










I painfully watched both the Democratic and Republican debates. Just what are we suppose to glean from this circus? It’s like watching a trainer feed a dolphin a fish for accomplishing a trick.

The collusion between the politicians and the corporate media to short change us of ideas, imagination and creativity has resulted in elected officials who lack ideas, imagination and creativity. The politicians who do slip through and don’t play nice in the dog and pony show are often portrayed as loons. Think Dennis Kucinich. The expectations of debates are that the moderator acts as a teacher, wrapping the knuckles of the presidential hopefuls if he or she gets off script—but that’s what it is, a script.

It’s like politicians are programmed to give 30 to 60 second sound bites, anything more reveals the vast space of nothingness, so they welcome the corporate ring leader to ring them in. They don’t have shit to say.

In the French presidential debates, the candidates debated for hours. Each candidate was given 45 minutes to respond to one another. They actually looked at each other and talked. Our candidates don’t even look at one another; instead they speak past one another and only for 30 – 60 seconds while staring blankly into the camera. This is how we ended up with the dip shit who is in office now. Imagine if Bush had 45 unscripted minutes to lay out his vision for the future, versus say Al Gore or John Kerry. Bush’s lack of imagination, his inability to grasp concepts and articulate them would have surely made him look like the dip shit that he is…but as I said before, it is the corporate media’s gig to try and pull the wool over our eyes and pretend that we are getting insight into the droids that are marched out onto the stage with canned answers. That ain't fresh.

The Republican Debate

Every year The Simpsons does the “Treehouse of Horror” episodes for Halloween. During the presidential race of 1996, there was “Treehouse of Horror IIV” in which aliens Kang and Kodos returned to Earth and kidnapped and impersonated Bill Clinton and Bob Dole so they can win the election.

In one of the debates, alien Kodos in his impersonation of a politician says, “We must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!” Leave it to the truth tellers of our time—satirists and comedians to paint the perfect picture of how incredibly vacuous and vile our politicians’ rhetoric has become.

The Republican debate reminded me of that Simpson’s episode.

The Republicans are cartoonish and are completely unaware of their sickness.

In the debate last week, corporate whore Chris Matthews asked if any of the presidential candidates did not believe in evolution, and 3 out of the 10 Republicans raised their hands without hesitation. I vomited in my mouth a little. As usual, there was no follow up questions.

The homoerotic obsession with former President Reagan, underscored just how empty the Republican candidates’ are of ideas; they have no identity. At every opportunity these body snatchers wrapped themselves in the skin of Reagan as if it gave them gravitas and credibility. Why would they expect anything differently? Campaigning has become only public relations, substance and actual ideas be damned.

Here’s how the Republicans sounded during their debate:

“Reagan…freedom…God…freedom. I love America…freedom…war…life…freedom…Reagan….Reagan…freedom…pro life…war…pro life…Reagan…God…war…Reagan...I love America….freedom…God.”

This lack of imagination is why the United States is dying a slow economic, military and influential death. Read the actual transcript and witness the sickness...bring your own peanuts.

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