The recent and despicable bail out of Wall Street (which was nothing more than a sell out of everyday people in this nation) by the so-called Democratic and Republican Parties, once again demonstrated to the peoples of this nation and world that they are but one political party. They are the amoral and scandalous Republicrats. Indeed, they are the systemic gate keepers of the U.S. Empire and are in opposition to the best economic, social, and political interests of the people of this nation and world.

The late and eminent poet, writer, and activist, Audre Lorde (also known as Gamba Adisa), correctly stated that, “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” The Democratic and Republican Parties are in fact tools of the avaricious, blood sucking corporate masters who are bent on containing, manipulating, and emaciating Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, and White peoples of this nation and planet. The pressing question is: Will we continue to allow ourselves to be the fools of the tools? We must not.

The Republicrats are astute at playing peoples off one against the other in order to maintain their stranglehold of economic, social, and political control & domination. While so-called people of color are systemically and systematically pitted against the other and against economically disenfranchised Whites; the filthy rich “masters” of the U.S. Empire, and their subservient stooges, engage in perpetuating the never-ending cycle of utilizing fear tactics, subterfuge, disinformation, and outright brute force to stomp on the poor and disenfranchised at home and abroad.

Divide and conquer continues to be the order of the day, adroitly used by the masters of the U.S. Empire. Their economic policies bring in the poor from nations south of the U.S. border, and from Africa and elsewhere; while conniving to pit them off against the poor and disenfranchised already right here in this nation. All along of course, it is the very economic and political policies of hegemony by the Democratic and Republican Parties [i.e. the Republicrats] of the U.S. Empire that are, in fact, keeping the majority of people poor and socially oppressed in other nations, while simultaneously emaciating the dwindling middle class and the poor inside the U.S. It is a deliberately maintained vicious cycle of divide, conquer, and control that only we the people can and must quickly come to comprehend, resolutely break, and permanently dismantle.

The Democratic and Republican Parties [i.e. the Republicrats] are part of a continuing fraud against the people of this nation and world. Moreover, what the corporate and much of the so-called “progressive” media refers to as a “choice” to be made by the people is in fact no choice at all. It is a consistently perpetuated myth, as is so accurately summed up by the words of the philosopher Albert Camus when he said, “What better way to enslave a man than to give him the vote and tell him he’s free.” The peoples of the United States have not in reality, chosen their U.S. Presidential candidates - the corporate/military/prison apparatus has. Overwhelmingly, the people of the United States said no to the bail-out of Wall Street’s corporate blood suckers, but the people were yet again simply ignored while the corporate media, in cahoots with the Democratic and Republican Party [Republicrats], took care of their own, which did not and does not include the everyday men, women, and children of this nation.

There are those who say that the bailout did not and will not work; but alas it has already worked. It has worked for the bloated, blood sucking corporate elite, though certainly not for the everyday people. But then it was never really intended to work for everyday men, women, and children. That is not what Wall Street has ever been about - i.e. everyday people. This is precisely why the candidacy of Barack Obama is so strongly financially supported by Wall Street, while the corporate candidacy of John McCain is also backed by the corporate blood suckers of “America.” The people of this nation are viewed and treated as nothing more than Wall Street’s corporate cannon fodder, and the empty rhetoric of Barack Obama and John McCain is but more continuing insults to the legitimate human needs of the majority of people in this nation and on this planet.

Enough is enough! We must have universal health care, full employment, decent & affordable housing, education, and a truly just & equal judicial system, etc. In essence, we must have real systemic change that addresses the human needs and aspirations of the people, not the perpetual greed, disinformation, and subterfuge of the corporate elite!

For a fact, the U.S. Presidential Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente ticket is precisely about building an ongoing, unflinching movement dedicated to bringing about systemic change for the people, not the greedy corporate elite. The McKinney/Clemente ticket is not supported by Wall Street or its corporate elite; and it is despised by the corporate media and the Democratic / Republican Party Republicrats. This is a movement currently embodied by Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente and it will continue to grow stronger now and in the future, well past the upcoming sham elections of the year 2008.

Step outside the Republicrat box. We must cease to be the fools of the Democratic / Republican Party Republicrats. We must grab hold of our own destinies.

To reiterate: Enough is simply enough. It is past time to build viable second, third, fourth, and fifth political parties in this nation. The scandalous Republicrats [i.e. the Democratic and Republican Parties], along with all their self-serving rhetoric, must be dispatched to the dust bin of history by everyday people, once and for all. Enough is truly enough.

Onward then brothers and sisters! Onward to create a genuine peoples movement which is about nurturing the new person, and is based on human needs, not corporate greed. Onward…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc., Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS NewsHour, formerly known as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book). Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney.

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