Sub-Realtime from D's place, Superbowl Sunday.

Get ready for a rough ride, brothers and sisters. The movement has gained inertia and we're unstoppable, its true. But today is superbowl sunday, and today is going to be a painful reality check. Today is the PIGS day of unity: X-Mas, New Years, and the first day of deer-huntin' season all rolled into one and packed into the back of a fat SUV loaded with Dirt Bikes, Booze and Shotguns - lots of 'em.

Sunset on the football field. Closeup shots of clean-cut whiteboys, and well groomed minorities in military or police uniforms - its all here: Play ball or fight and you'll get a share of the crumbs, darkie. The climax of the opening events? Amerika's pre-eminent killing machine: The B117 Stealth Fighter zooming overhead, making sure everyone knows who paid for the party. This is the reign of the pigs folks. And today is an open demonstration of who's lighting the fire underneath the media's asses and prompting all the new ultra-right/ultra-white (calm down, anarchy girl, I'm talking about the conceptual mindset of white - not your skin color) television programming and in-depth news stories which ultimately tout the post-reagan party lines: We need more. More guns, for sure. More control. More resources. More more more. And we're going to take them from you, darkie. At home as well as abroad. How can we legitimize this? Enter Hollywood.

Its all hollywood. Its "Gladiator" live, complete with an arena. Massive flags, jets soaring overhead and general Schwarzzeneger accepts a medal of honour to the stylized choreography of the Back Street Boys (the homogenous rock and roll product served to our youth to prevent legitimate Sex, Drugs & Rock & roll rebellion. They're balding. The're gaining weight, but don't worry. The kids don't see that. They see what they're programmed to see. Beautiful youth shimmering in the precious limelight of our entertainment based society. They believe in it just like they believed in Santa Clause).

Jet bombers drop napalm on Ghetto and barrio on their way to the feild and everyone cheers. Tonight on "Cops" rumor has it that the brave men of the whateverPD will stage a major raid on the same neighborhoods to arrest the burn victims who, no doubt will have resorted to the use of illegal drugs to cure their pain. More prisoners. More cheap labor. More fear. Fear of you, darkie. Get back to the game and throw the ball like a good dog.

Schwarzzeneger accepts his award and the token negro sings the anthem of the country that imported him - beautifully.

But what does it all mean? Two teams at war. Winner takes all (Also expect to see hard-sell advertisements that make or break this years line-up of consumer "must-haves"). Whats the metaphor? Who is the winner? Who is the looser. Well, its the 1st quarter. Right now the winner is Baltimore, with 7. The looser, right now, is New York, with 0.

In the grander scheme, The winner is the system - capitalism and its minions like Bo and Luke Duke (who recently stole the election) and their cohorts in Hazard County who happen to control the military industrial complex. And what of the looser? Why all the camouflage? Ask Hollywood. We're going to war. War in a good way: we won't have to leave the comfort of our couches. We'll import war and sell it on TV. We'll export war and have neibors fighting eachother for the resources we DIDN'T leave behind after we pulled out (see AFRICA, History, Post Colonial). We're going to war with the poor. We're going to need billions to contain and imprison them and put them to work both here and abroad with our police/military and the help of Jim "NAFTA" Crow organizations like the WTO and the IMF. How? We'll do it by cutting taxes. We'll cut taxes the old fashioned way: We'll raise them. And we'll make you pay for all of it as we war on you, darkie. The looser is you (again). This is the same old war we've been fighting, but now we're changing the rules. We've got new guns. New techniques we know you're going to love (remember Crack? Wait till you see whats in store!).

Just when you thought you could live with Amerika, here comes Amerika II: Reaganism Reanimated. And you drunk indians can love it or leave it. Sit back, shut up and enjoy the show. We'll be coming for you soon. We can still make money off you and its still marginally legal.

What garbage even your names sound like trash.

One man's trash is another man's God.

One man's trash is another man's God.

I think anyone who saw that gross display of American jingoism and fascism

would be alarmed or offended. Welcome back to the 80s! And get ready

for the next VietNam/Kuwait./Bullshit war for oil/drugs/money in Columbia.

Football fans can be easily brainwashed with such masturbatory displays of

military wastes of money.

This bogus "Wang" character above needs to stop holding his little

pee-pee with too hands like a little boy and smell the gun powder.

It could be you or your son who will be conscripted to fight America's next

dirty war for the rich.

This was an excellent piece with creative use of language, structure and rhythm. It makes important points and makes them in a manner that can be compared to a protest song.

Trash? I think not!

Hey whoa, what is this? Some kind of homophob circle jerk or something?

That's a heart warming piece.

Your mothers must be proud of you both.

But seriously, putting aside the sarcasm for a moment.

Does anyone other than me think that if you want to put together a populist movement -- you really can't afford to show contempt for people who watch the Superbowl?

Aren't most of the people who watch the Superbowl ever year the kind of hard working, working class people the Left is supposed to support?

Not trying to be sarcastic -- trying to raise a point about working class American's continued skepticism of the Left's agenda.

(I expect I will be criticized any way. C'est la vie.)

For the record I loved Nehanda and Yaquis post. I feel it is revolutionarily dead on. Paul, I don't believe it is belittling the watchers of the Superbowl, but points out the reality of the ideology behind it. That same ideology that supports the medias quest at brainwashing those deliberately undereducated and underpaid working class folks into thinking the Left is thier enemy.

It is so flagrantly hypocritical that it leaves me nearly breathless.

This is Rome again..the Superbowl is the epitome of Bread and Circuses - quell the masses with entertainment while the wells of propaganda flow and the coffers of the rich bulge even tauter with the money made by the sweat and blood of those deceived into supporting them.

The only difference between Rome and Bush (and Reagan) is that the victims are now safely ensconced on their sofas at home, (if they got the day off work) sucking up Budweisers while absorbing the visual messages of What America Is as presented by the Corporate elite.

This is not a slam of the Superbowl watchers.. it is the truth. The truly saddening aspect is that these people simply have no idea why thier lives are as they are. What is holding them to poverty and lives of 'quiet desperation'. If the working class were allowed to know the powers vested in keeping them in the dark- believe me.. the Superbowl would have been a different sort of 'party'.

Respectfully signed,

A white girl

Elysian: I hear what you are saying about the working class being deliberately undereducated, etc.

And if I may, respectfully, push the issue a bit further, without being antagonistic. . .

You (not you personally, Elysian, you plural, like in "y'all") have to be VERY CAREFUL that you are not selling the working class short -- ie., not giving them enough credit.

Whether you are or not, if you make the working class folks THINK you are selling them* short -- you better believe most of them will resent you for it.

So, when you suggest that the working class is being duped by whoever (corporate elitists, capitalists, whoever) you must be VERY careful to avoid communicating this message: "y'all are too dumb to know what's good for you -- I know what's good for you."

Who on Earth would respond positively for that message?

I am not saying anyone here is guilty of that kind of thinking or rhetoric -- but I think that if you are honest about it you will find that many people on the Left have only a thinly veiled contempt for the working class. It is frankly very troubling.

* I do not count myself among the working class, despite the fact that I come from decidedly working class roots. At one point in my life, before college, grad. school, career, I was working along side the working class. But my position was different -- I fully believed I would not be loading trucks when I was 50! Its a different perspective.

Just being a nudge as always.

Buenas noches.

"those deliberately undereducated and underpaid working class folks"



What??? I don't know who is deliberately either of these. What planet do you live on? Oh that's right. You signed off "a white girl". Would that be a white from a well to do middle class background? Or some snotty nosed bitch who is still in school while as a result of the arrogance of youth and the illusion of thinking you know it all while being protected by the coocun of academia and it's shallow reflection of what it presumes to be the "real" world, while your bills are being payed by mommy and daddy which provides you with the privilege to indulge in the luxury of thinking you are some sort of revelutionary. Wake up!! Things are not what you believe them to be. You neglected to include in you sign off " A Fucked Up White Girl".

Uncle Reamus --

Your comments directed at the "white girl" say a lot more about you than they do about her. You have painted a fairly detailed picture of some imaginary girl that you hate, based on one detail from a short comment posted here. Sounds to me like you're the kind of guy women avoid -- and if you have a woman in your life, I feel sorry for her, and you should show her the part here where you used the word "bitch" to describe a total stranger.

What is your point in getting hysterical and making personal attacks? And what makes you think you have a better grasp on what's going on than this stranger to you?

I'm not interested in the answers, Sir Reamus: these are questions to ask YOURSELF. Chances are I won't check back for a reply, so insult me if it makes you feel better, but I may not even notice. I just hope you decide to interact with people, in the future, in a more constructive way.

Hmmm... I think Elysian and Paul Daly or Paul Daley are the same person. He, she or it seems to enjoy trolling the indy web sites in the same fashion one would troll a chat room or news group.

Uncle Reamus:

We all know that many of the most radical Leftists out there have nothing in common with the working class. Many are in the streets because of personal issues involving their relationships with their parents, more than any sincere revolutionary fervor.

We also know that many privileged, well educated academic types preach revolution from the safety of the ivory tower, and yet they've never known a hard days physical labor.

And YES people like that are frigging hypocrites and it is A LOT OF FUN to bust on them. I can't stand them, frankly.

But neither you nor I know anything about Elysian. Your personal, profane attack on her was based on no facts whatsoever.

Point is, UR, I wish you would be able to discuss the b.s. of the elitist attitude within the Left without personally insulting anyone.

This is somewhat harder of course, because the response will inevitably a chorus of "NOT ME" and "WHAT REVOLUTION ARE YOU LOOKING AT? I SAW ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE AT MY RALLY."

Those are the people who are, in my view, unable to be honest with themselves. They are almost as much of a hindrance to the movement as the hypocrites from the upperclasses claiming to be for the proletariat.

As always, just trying to lift the level of discourse to be about ideas and not people.

Ciao.

Personally, Paul, I'm less concerned with why people are out in the streets, speaking truth to power, than that they ARE in the streets. When people wake up to the injustices in their society, and they decide to do something about it, I believe we should support that, whether they're part of the working class or not. Because ultimately this is a battle that cannot be won by waging it against bad individuals. It must be waged against bad ideas, bad ways of living. The battle begins within each one of us; each of us must start with what WE do, personally, how WE contribute to injustice through the things we buy, the things we eat, the ways we travel, etc. Then we spread the word.

It is far more important for us to UNITE against injustice than it is for us to differentiate among ourselves between the people who are really, truly committed to this struggle, and those who think they give a damn, but (we've decided) really don't. The (Infamous) Powers That Be do enough to divide us without our dividing ourselves. And we're wasting our time berating one another while a common enemy casts a shadow over all of us.