Stumbling Towards Catastrophe

Humans; the sort of humans who either listen to Glenn Beck, or who were saddened at the fall of Eric Cantor, and the sort of humans who support Barack Obama and nod sagely when the read the New York Times editorial page, are driving us to disaster.

The moral depravity of supporters of Israeli genocide against the Palestinians, whether in the comments section of the National Post or the CBC or the leaders of all of our political parties, is a sign of our inability to achieve peace. To live in peace. To not kill ourselves.

The crisis in the Ukraine, between the detestable US-American ruling class and the detestable Russian government of thuggish oligarchs under Putin, is going to heat-up thanks to the nonsensical drivel coming from media mouthpieces for US-American imperialism. Putin is a gangster. But even gangsters (or especially gangsters) recognize power realities. Russia could not afford a quarrel with the United States. Therefore Putin is acting reasonable in this context. Our braying jack-asses like stephen harper and John Baird might find themselves partially responsible for a nuclear missile attack on one of the world's cities if this confrontation goes too far.

We can't even stir ourselves as a people to rally around the limited democracy we have. Disgusting apologists for harper cheered his contempt of Parliament. Disgusting Liberal partisans excused McGuinty for his contempt of the Ontario legislature. NDP stooges contort themselves into defending every betrayal of the values of the grasssroots committed by one of their failed provincial governments. They'd surely be capable of doing the same if ever it came to that.

And, I was condemned for my pessimism in a series of content-free critiques. But the fact remains that we, the Left, have failed and are failing to do much to reverse these patterns. We're so weak and despised that our own political parties consider it a worthwhile achievement to betray us and mock us. It's a sign of "political courage" to dismiss our calls for economic justice and to instead, pursue self-destructive austerity policies that only benefit banksters. 

Well, fuck all that. I've decided to focus on a cause in the 3-d world. Public transit. Not because it's the most important thing in the world to me. But because maybe there I can achieve a victory. Maybe there, on that limited field, I can see if doing things differently, on a larger, more activist scale, I can achieve a victory and then point to how those tactics can apply to other things. 

Because it's pretty clear to me that we're stumbling towards multiple catastrophes, economic, political, ecological, if things don't change.