Fight the Power

Well, friends, the time has come for me to take the SkyeWire offline.  I started this blog in the midst of a period of hyper-intellectualism and political anger, I end it in a period of creativity and overwhelming optimism.  It was 3 years ago exactly when the SkyeWire started, and it has evolved side-by-side with its author.  An important outlet for a troubled youth.

This evening, I proudly present my final tidbits of knowledge, opinion, and battle orders.

There are a few key things an American citizen must know:  1)You are a people with extraordinary potential;  2) ALL cable news (CNN, FOX, MSNBC, etc) belongs in Communist Russia; 3) Democrats and Republicans are on the same corporate team; 4) Barack Obama is not and will never be a revolutionary; 5) Republicans are still extremely dangerous; 6) It's going to be OKAY!  Live Life!

There are big mid-term elections coming up, and I expect every able citizen to cast a vote.  Get registered!! Democrats might be tools who lost their progressive values, but the country will survive longer with them in charge.  Keep the jerks in power, otherwise war with Iran will come closer to reality than you think.  Not that Dems aren't militant, they are.  Just not as much.

Never forget the Iraq War.  An attack planned by a small group of radical nationalists and facilitated by almost every Democrat and Republican in the Senate.  In my opinion, every person who voted for this unnecessary and devastating war ought to lose their seat.  Over a million Iraqis are dead, and the citizens of America need to take responsibility for it.  We did not march in protest like the millions around the world.  It is our fault for not being vigilant and critical enough.

President Obama has shown his true colors in recent weeks.  He has declared the end of the Iraq War, yet my friend Eric Shoopman still fights.  Indeed, 50,000 troops remain... many of the others have simply been replaced by private military contractors (i.e. Blackwater mercenaries).  Obama is no Martin Luther King or Gandhi.  He is a corporate Democrat who runs a moderate government.  I am still rooting for the man, but everyone needs to know the difference between the maintainers of the status quo and truly transformational leaders who direct a civilization.  We will have our leader one day.

These are the state of affairs, but do not despair.  The country is slowly pulling itself together, progress is happening.  The best we brothers and sisters of the world can do is act for each other.  We must vote, we must debate.  That is the calling of the people who founded the United States of America.  Thomas Jefferson wanted the Revolution to be ongoing, and I plan to keep it up in my own way.

Together we will bring down the industrial-congressional complexes that so paralyze progress.

With that, I'm off to be an artist or something.  Honestly, I plan to make beautiful, thought-provoking, controversial films.  One day a political epic...starring a blogger who brings down the whole system through the power of words in cyberspace.

No, that'd be damn silly.  Bloggers are truly ineffectual beings.

SkyeWire OUT.