This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Just imagine if, at the height of World War Two, Franklin Roosevelt had made a peace deal with Adolph Hitler. Hitler could keep all of his European conquests and continue on with his murderous genocide and The United States would step aside and give him a free hand. In return, the Roosevelt family would receive hundreds of millions of dollars every year forever and ever, amen.

Or just imagine if Richard Nixon had made a deal with Mao Zedong. To allow American companies to exploit Chinese workers and evade American unions and environmental laws. Oh, wait! Bad example. Forget all about that one!

Never in the field of American politics has a crime been so dastardly. So cynically cruel and sadistic. It stands as a new monument and benchmark for capitalist corruption. When Satan the orange held his Piece Summit in Alaska, he brought along a couple of oil company executives. Give us a piece of your oil fields and maybe the great orange Satan can help you out. The Russians were so offended they left without having lunch.

Flash forward a couple of months. The Russian economy is running out of gas both figuratively and literally. Factories are shutting down. Workers aren’t being paid and winter is coming. Russia is out of tanks and armor. It’s suffered 1.2 million casualties and is literally running out of men. Vladimir Putin cries uncle! And allows Chevron and ExxonMobil to bid on Lukoil Russian oil fields. Shazam! Suddenly, the king of crime says Ukraine has till next Thursday to surrender! A 28-point piece plan where Ukraine gets a promise and Russia gets everything else and Trump gets a piece.

Now imagine you’re a European ally of the United Snakes. What are you thinking right about now? When Putin said no. The king emerged promising to shower Ukraine with heavy weapons. When Putin says yes, Trump answers, “Surrender Dorothy!” It is so despicable! It’s the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact of 1939. Where both sides agree to divide Poland between them. Donald Trump isn’t just screwing over Ukraine. He’s screwing all of Europe with the cough of a dying empire.

“See what your greed for money has done.” – Woody Guthrie.

They held a vote yesterday in the US house of representing millionaires condemning Socialism! Of course! What other answer would you expect? It’s like when they ask if people are Christians. Ninety percent answer yes, yet the churches are all half empty on Sunday. It’s the socially expected answer! You don’t want to be different, do you? You do love the virgin Mary, don’t you? When the phone rings, Pavlov remembers to feed the dog. Ask a room full of tigers what they think about vegetarianism and see what kind of polarity you receive.

 American manufacturing went to China so they could pay workers in pennies and nickels. They went where so they could dump tons of toxic shit into the rivers and the air. And when the workers get old, they can kick them to the curb owing them nothing for their lifetime of loyal service. Isn’t Capitalism wonderful?

Feral American workers running on a treadmill to power someone else’s life. Say what you like about Socialism. A Socialist would never give away a trillion dollars to the rich and pay for it by taking healthcare from the poor. Only in Capitalist America, where you have a right to own a gun, but no right to health care or a roof over your head.

In London, the threat of higher taxes has the wealthy scurrying to leave town. They want all that London can offer them. But not if they have to pay for it. Do you think maybe it’s a coincidence that the house of representing millionaires condemns Socialism on the same day Zohran Mamdani comes to town? He’s got them all spooked. Holy Shit! If people start electing Socialists their taxes would go up! And that just won’t do!

So what if millions die? That’s their tough luck! So what, if millions are homeless? Fuck em! The wealthy want everything America offers and more, while telling the 99% government can’t help you like it helps us. King Corruption, Satan’s apprentice, announces new oil drilling permits in Florida, California, and Alaska. Why? Is this something the people were asking for? Or is this something the oil companies were asking for? If Trump approves it, cha Ching! Trump gets a cut. But the people don’t want it. Too bad, the oil companies do!

In Socialist Norway, the government sets oil leases and keeps most of the profits in their sovereign wealth fund. Politicians can only spend the interest and not the principle from the fund. Where is our sovereign wealth fund? We are the richest country on earth and yet we have nothing. We only have private wealth funds in this country. The Tennessee Valley Authority built hydro-electric dams generating revenue for the treasury. But Eisenhower sold them all because big government is bad. But big business is good!

Barack Obama sold us out on the public option. The insurance lobby just wouldn’t allow a government program to break the insurance monopoly. And now, health insurance costs are going through the roof. Pay it or die! See if we care! Who Remembers the other week where Eli Lilly was in the orange house pimping their weight loss drugs? Getting government support through government assistance programs. Guess who just became the first trillion-dollar pharmaceutical company?

Farmers complain Trump’s tariffs are terrible. But offer, the seed and fertilizer monopoly is far worse. The farmer makes money sometimes, but the seed and fertilizer companies make money every year!

The Capitalist like to paint Socialism as Communism. It’s like saying, the Methodists are the same as the Evangelicals. While they denounce Socialism, they line their pockets with government largesse and pay out millions to buy influence in the house of representing millionaires. They buy full throated propaganda networks and newspapers. The wealthy can molest children without fear, unless they become a threat to someone even wealthier… in office.

Let’s play “Clue” Mr. E was found dead in his cell by a noose. Was it Mr. Purple in the library? Mr. Blue in the kitchen or Mr. Orange in the oval office? Marge Tater Greene unexpectantly announces she’s leaving the house of representing millionaires. Is she smart? Is she angling for a higher office? Or is she afraid of having an accident? Or maybe being prosecuted for spitting on the sidewalk or chewing gum.

“Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called farm price supports.

Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

When the Republican candidate inscribes the slogan “Down With Socialism” on the banner of his “great crusade,” that is really not what he means at all.

What he really means is “Down with Progress–down with Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal,” and “down with Harry Truman’s fair Deal.” That’s all he means.” -Harry Truman

“This machine kills fascists.”
― Woody Guthrie