Dick Cheney, the Shadow President

Zodiac, Babylon Five was one of my favorites. I loved that show.

Standing up and making our voices heard is obviously going to be what it takes. However, I think it's about time that "the individual" in America takes a realistic assessment of his or her position in today's world. There is no way that an individual can stand up against massive, global conglomerates, and the groups like the Council on Foreign Relations, who make sure nobody runs for office anymore unless they are affiliated with those organizations. The individual who wants to stand up against the tyranny we are now seeing, is sort of like a little red ant thinking it has the power to take an elephant down. One might commend the ant for its bravery, but the odds are against the ant.

Furthermore, you have to understand how these huge corporate conglomerates and organizations view men like Bush and Cheney. All elected officials are viewed as little more than transient puppets that will be in office for a mere four years or eight years, but are there only to serve the larger order. By the "larger order" I do not mean the people of the United States of America either. Not even our elected officials hold that much weight or power anymore, except in their capacity to serve the wishes of the much larger corporations and organizations who have incorporated themselves to become a single "entity." Men within the corporate entity may die or come and go, but the "entity" carries on. We who are the little guys each view ourselves as individuals, but as individuals we have no power any longer.

So if we are going to stand up and fight this move towards tyranny and globalization, then we all need to get our heads out of the sand and understand that our first step is going to be in organizing some sort of group or organization comprised of many people who have the same basic goals. If we don't do that, all our fine words and thoughts amount to nothing. We cannot fight what is happening on the individual level anymore. It doesn't work. Nor does it do any good to believe that the Democrats will change things, because the entire Democratic Party is as controlled by the incorporated faceless "entity" as the Republicans are. I think the proof of that can be found in the fact that every single canidate today campaigning to become the next president, regardless of whether they represent the Democrats or Republicans, is either a direct member of the Council on Foreign relations or is directly involved through a spouse.

We Americans are purposefully kept "individuals" by people who make political speeches and say they believe in our "individual freedoms", but in truth the only reason they say that is because they know that as long as we all view ourselves as simply individuals, we are quite literally powerless to do anything.