ìChangeî In 2008?

By David Cyr, state committee member of the Green Party of New York State

In ìThe†Change†You Deserveî†Republicans have selected a slyly subliminal slogan for 2008. Only the too few whoíve long been clear-eyed and paying attention will realize that whether a smirking Republicanís or a smiley Democratís face is put upon it, the next†corporate state†administration will have, as all those before it, inherently sociopathic corporations determine all the†what, when, where and how of the ìchangeîÖ and†who will ìdeserveî it.

The regressive Republican wing of the Corporate Party was of course responding to the disingenuous Democrat wing†of the corporate Partyís†ìChange†We Can Believe Inî†slogan; which, given their ìelectableî candidates, is a ìchangeî that only the most gullible, or those willfully wishing to be deceived could ever possibly ìbelieve inî either.

And so, as the Corporate Partyís longest-ever primary campaign coasts towards its finish, a truly dark comedy is presented, in which Republicans are rhetorically positioning themselves to be perceived as being like Democrats, while Democrats are now what Republicans were.

As proof for the old maxim, that the more things ìchangeî the more they stay the same, with Obamamania on the rise, the Clinton campaign†laid†bare the basest racist Klan roots of the Democratic Party. The Clintons themselves quite consciously and deliberately sought the white†supremacist†vote with verbal associations like that of: ìhard workingî workers being ìwhiteî workers; the [White]†Womenís Voices, Women Vote organizationís†robocall and mailing efforts to suppress black voter turnout; and the timely, convenient-for-Clinton distribution of various ìObama Monkey í08î campaign†paraphernalia.

Thereís been a liberal guilt vote surge in the other wing of that wing, being the ìDemocraticî wing of the Democratic wing of the Republican-Democratic Corporate Party. It demonstrates a dedication to the liberalsí duplicitous form of racism by voting†another kind of ABB this timefor a black eager to disassociate himself with his own blackness. For liberals desperate to prove that they are not the racist Democrats, Obamaówhoís clearly more comfortable as the only dark-skinned one there, lying among lying light-skinned Senators, than he ever was sitting in a pew of a black church with a pastor who speaks too truthfullyóis a perfect liberal racist ABB choice for 2008: an Acceptable Black Boy.

The primary focus of the Democratsí primary having been upon choosing a candidate based solely upon skin color is most ironically appropriate, since the alleged progressiveness of either Clinton or†Obama†is, in the†very best light possible, only skin deep.

It wonít matter at all whether the Green Partyís candidate for president is old or young; male, female or transgendered; black, white or any other skin color. No matter who the Green Partyís candidate will be, he or she will be someone who has been, and will continue to be, an honest advocate for† substantive changes benefitting actual people more than corporations and ensuring human survival (a degree of change neither the Republican nor the Democrat candidate will support). This is change that we and all the rest of the world donít merely wish to seeóit is The Real Change We All Really Need.