The sad truth - Cindy Sheehan hits the nail on the head

I don't watch television. Certainly not propaganda stations. Which about sums up television so...

No, I'm no "dirty hippie". I'm not a leftist vegan either.

Yes, they are mostly propagandist and biased outlets that spend as much time distracting as they do misleading. This may or may not have been the case when the "dirty hippies" claimed it to be so (I was shittin me diapers around the time they pulled the guys off of the embassy rooftop in Saigon). It is most certainly the case now.

Anyway...the point is- I don't know a lot about Cindy Sheehan besides her Crawford Camp and Anti-War stance. I did come across this today though and she hits it right on the head.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/28/12530/1525

It's tough to even cut her post up for quotes...

"However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the "left" started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used. I guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue of peace and people dying for no reason is not a matter of "right or left", but "right and wrong.""

Now, I'm not an entirely anti-war type. There are some definite world problems that just don't go away to a polite request or a childish refusal to trade with them officially while allowing business as usual[plus increased corruption!] through loopholes and shell companies. However, war is the last resort not a tool of revenge and greed.
She hit the nail on the head about the partisan nature of the nation - attack the wrongs of the party that one opposes and ignore the wrongs of the party that one supports. Then she drives it home.

"It amazes me that people who are sharp on the issues and can zero in like a laser beam on lies, misrepresentations, and political expediency when it comes to one party refuse to recognize it in their own party. Blind party loyalty is dangerous whatever side it occurs on. People of the world look on us Americans as jokes because we allow our political leaders so much murderous latitude and if we don’t find alternatives to this corrupt "two" party system our Representative Republic will die and be replaced with what we are rapidly descending into with nary a check or balance: a fascist corporate wasteland."

Ding! Except...we are already there. It's just tightening now. This fascism has been growing here for a long time. It's machinations have been found in every corner of government of the land. From village to town to city to county to state and of course the national - corporatist fascism (which is redundant I'm aware) has been growing stronger and stronger. Where once the worker held some sway, illegal/quasi-legal immigration, corporate flight to cheap foreign labor, free trade (wealth consolidations), the Red Scare, corporatist chipping, and rampant corruption have drastically changed all that.

I can't touch the rest you should read it - sad but true...

B