Cassi Creek: Is there
a difference between today’s anarchists and the teavangelists who intend to demolish
government by grid locking the current legislative processes?
The standard
image of the political anarchist is still derived from the decades-old “Mad
Bomber” wearing a long coat, a eponymous “mad bomber hat,” and carrying a black
spherical or sticks of dynamite bomb, fuse sputtering down to ignition as he
tries to trigger yet another war in order to destroy an existing
government.
Today’s image
is undergoing change. The European/urban
American, feet in the street, masked and wired to the grid anarchist seems to
have an understanding that chaos is the heart of anarchy and is willing to
become an anonymous foot soldier in the street theater of the generation. Nothing makes one feel good about one’s
effort to destroy “the globalists” and their financial empires that own the
national governments like watching the post-riot videos on the evening news
broadcasts while relaxing in a hot bath or shower, dining at a bistro, and
enjoying the amplified sounds of the latest pop music, and while dancing the
night away with thousands of others who might actually do more harm to the
current system by spreading the current strain of influenza from town to town.
But the
newest breed of anarchy has its roots in the teavangelist political parties of
the United States. These are political
reactionaries who blend a Taliban-like religious fundamentalism with a refusal
to engage in political compromise, and the belief that they will be rewarded by
history and by their political masters for blocking all attempts to continue to
govern the U.S. as the majority of voters in the last two Presidential
elections wish it to be governed.
This American
pseudo-anarchism is the paid product of legislators in the sub-rosa employ of
the latest round of robber barons and financial manipulators who are convinced
of their own invincibility due to immense financial holdings largely warehoused
off U.S. shores to avoid even the most minimal of taxes. The dirty work and local political posturing
is provided by right-wing talk radio commentators who dispense daily doses of
piety and pseudo-morality while engaging in a life style that precisely
violates everything they rail against.
There are no real anarchists around today’s
cities. Even the most radical offspring
of Stalin’s party are far better off either here or back in the Rodina, to wish
to bring down the current government and to compromise their access to social
safety nets, public health agencies that assure safe food and water, and the
other benefits of life in an industrial nation that we regard as necessary in
order to live well.
The closest
thing we in America have to real anarchists, are the teavangelists. A real anarchist knows that if he is successful
in bringing about political anarchy, with it will come social and cultural
anarchy. There will be no more social
safety nets, no public schools, no universities to return to once one is done
playing at changing the world.
What will
come about, what we do not want to come about, is just what the NRA and the toy
soldier militias have been prophesying.
There will be sufficient blockade of our current government that we no
longer have a stable and workable government.
We’ll stand amazed as it crumbles around us. The truly ironic aspect of the whole collapse
will be that if it occurs, it will be brought about by the very people who have
been hoarding guns, gold, food, and everything that they believe they will need
when they are attacked by imaginary screaming hordes of socialists pouring out
of the cities to escape the turmoil and anarchy that they have brought about. The turmoil and crumbling society with no
working financial system and no remaining food distribution system will be
generated by the 2nd amendment nuts intent on owning one of every
gun in manufacture, the “preppers ready to seal their families into underground
bunkers for a decade, and the rest of the xenophobes, teavangelists waiting for
Israel to crumble and usher in the 2nd coming.
I hope they
like beans and rice.
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