Shouldn't it go back to being called the Department Of War?

[Syrinx]

We're on the verge of a constitutional crisis over the national debt, and what to do about it.

It appears that the nation is constitutionally obligated to pay it's debt (14th amendment), while at the same time being legislatively restricted from further borrowing, or, more importantly, further taxing, at the same time we are unwilling to cut the Department Of War, or still nice enough not to bulldoze millions of poor seniors into early earthen graves because they can't afford medical care.

It is so goddamn obvious that the War Department must be cut, and that the uppermost marginal tax rate must be increased a few damn points.

But the establishment is so selfish that they'd rather the entire nation cease to exist, than to see us transform into anything resembling a civilized society.

It is sickenly apparent that the blame for this nation's economic downfall lies at the feet of the lecherous military-industrial-financial-media complex, ably represented by the renamed "Department Of Defense."

When was the last time the Defense Department defended us against anything?

Perhaps the USA did not face an existential threat during WWII. Still, I think that was probably the last "good war" we ever participated in. And then they changed the name from "War" to "Defense." Orwellian, while Orwell was still alive.

Since then, it has been one stupid-ass "police action" and "kinetic military action" after another. We've fed human beings into a proverbial meat grinder to produce the sausage that feeds the pigs that come up with this shit.

To enrich the bastards that are evil and selfish enough to come up with these ideas, we sacrifice millions of people, our own and others, so that a few people at the top can live in multiple fancy houses and dictate policy to the rest of us, and tell us that if we view things more humanely that we are "un-American." And they feed us bullshit about "American exceptionalism."

I know this is not an original opinion. But it is an opinion too rarely heard today in America. Many more people feel this way than you would ever know from media.

And I know many would call it naive. But I assure you I'm not naive. I'm on the cusp of being "old," for fuck's sake. I'm more likely cynical.

I have had enough with empty sloganeering and photo-ops.

I want America to live up to it's slogans and images.

I want America to be a "shining city upon a hill." I want tomorrow to be "morning in America."

But it isn't. Not even close.

We are in a spiraling descent, headed past our crumbling roads and bridges, toward the drain.

Not because we asked too much from the billionaire. But because we promised too little to our children.

[Syrinx]

1. ok, the last line was corny

[elehhhhna]

2. or at least Dept Of Offense? WTF are they defending?

[Syrinx]

3. I meant "sickeningly"