This author's uncle once commented that when he goes to the polls, he
votes for the major party that is not in power. Why? "I'm a working man; I'm
gonna get screwed whoever's in power." This author's uncle also happens to be a
Baby Boomer. Not that the Baby Boomer generation holds the copyright on this
attitude. The wise words of the American- Australian politician King O'Malley
spring to mind: "The Australian is such a lovable fellow; so vigorous
physically, yet dulled mentally for want of sharpening up with knowledge." This
is an important quote to bear in mind. In one's less agapic moments, the average
Australian seems to inspire less charitable descriptions: it is sometimes
tempting to replace the words "dulled mentally for want of sharpening up with
knowledge" with "raving lunatics who should be locked up for their own good."
The average Australian loves to whinge and bitch about those bloody pollies
in Canberra. They'll complain bitterly as they try to juggle two or three jobs
so they can somehow pay the rent or mortgage, buy petrol for their car, put food
on the table, and keep on top of their ballooning credit card debt. Yet one
Saturday in every three years, they'll grudgingly trudge down to the local
primary school on threat of a fine, and either imitate my uncle, vote for the
party they've always voted for, or the "swingers" among them will perhaps cast
their ballot for the well-funded local candidate with the flash suit and the
toothpaste advertisement smile who so inspired their imaginations with his
earnest campaign and petition drive for the installation of a set of traffic
lights at the High Street shops. Is it really the politicians who are at fault
here? Or is it perhaps the brain dead idiots who voted for them in the first
place?
To put the flippancy aside for one moment, this is no laughing matter. This
is, in fact, the subject of Classical tragedy, taken from the standpoint of
William Shakespeare or Friedrich Schiller. Consider this quote from Lyndon LaRouche's paper, Ask The Man Who Owns One: "So, in Classical tragedy,
Shakespeare creates the voice of Horatio, to show that the tragedy is not that
of Hamlet, but of his 'rotten' Denmark of that time, as Schiller provides the
voice of the Queen in Don Carlos to the same end, and as Schiller creates
the characters of the two 'Children of the House' in the Wallenstein
Trilogy with the same method and intent. These figures appear, on behalf of the playwright's service to his audience,
to provide a view of the mind and senses of a figure outside the tragic process
which is, otherwise, that of society as a whole, to make thus clearer to the
audience that the tragedy expresses the guilt expressed as the fruit of the
control over nearly all among the individual actors by a systemic flaw of the
relevant culture as a whole. The shrewd Classical dramatist uses the image of
the exceptional figure in history to make clear the systemic features of tragedy
through which both the leading and popular strata of society participate in
launching and sustaining the corrupt world-outlook by which the tragic culture
ruins itself. The exceptional figure points to the need for the discovery of
universal principle, physical or social, which is urgently required to free the
society of the removable fatal flaw which permeates that culture in its
ontological whole."
Take, as a text book example of a modern Classical tragedy, the current
political situation in the United States. Impotent, cowardly Democrats are
refusing to impeach Bush and Cheney, despite mountains of evidence of "high
crimes and misdemeanours," Cheney's beating the drums of war ever louder for
armed conflict with Iran and Russia, and the collapse, now reaching its
climax, of the global financial system, which will result in a catastrophe far
worse than the Great Depression if governments don't immediately implement an
FDR-style "New New Deal." These same Democratic politicians are so afraid of
being associated with Lyndon LaRouche's name, that they would rather turn their
backs on the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt, the founder of the modern U.S.
Democratic Party, and, like lemmings, lead themselves, their party and their
nation straight to Hell. Are these politicians not a product of their culture,
specifically the popular Western culture predominant following the insane
rock/drug/sex "me, me, me" counter-culture of the late 1960s? And let's not
forget who voted for these clowns in the first place.
Please don't think for one second that this situation isn't going to have
direct, and powerful, consequences here in Australia. And, tell me, are you
honestly stupid enough to think that Kevin Rudd is going deal with this crisis
any differently than Howard would? Which brings us to the point: what are
you, the reader, going to do about it? Will you have the courage to rise
above the degenerate culture we now find ourselves in, and to educate yourself
and those around you to identify not only the problems we face, but, more
importantly, the solutions to those problems? And more to the point still, what
are you going to do on election day? Will you be a lemming, and continue along
your doomed path, only to be drowned in a sea debt? Or are you going to vote for
the only political party in Australia that, purely because of its unique
relationship with Lyndon LaRouche, is the only party currently qualified lead in
this crisis? We will not beg for your vote; rather, we will demand it.
With the financial markets choosing the perfect time to prove the accuracy of
Lyndon LaRouche's method of economic forecasting, we have the moral authority to
do so.
