Your Revolution Will Not Be Actualized

It's often been said, by people wiser than I, that we deserve the government we ask for. You, Chicago's 49th Ward, have the government that you deserve. Or do you?

The so-called "progressives," who used to call themselves "liberals," are now the establishment. They are the ones who are taxing the hell out of all of us: Daley, Blagojevich, Stroger, and on and on. They are the corrupt and wicked of this decade, this century. THEY HAVE BECOME THE PIGS THAT THEY AND THEIR HIPPIE PREDECESSORS RANTED AGAINST. THEY ARE THE ESTABLISHMENT.

The revolution failed. "The Man" shaved his beard, cut his hair, put a tie on and screws you daily.

This is not just a rant against liberals, so-called progressives, or Democrats. The Republicans have abandoned us, too. A healthy democracy needs a viable and loyal opposition, and neither the Donkey nor the Elephant has shown itself to be worthy. In Illinois - especially Chicago - the Republicans are typified by meek, silent, ineffectual men such as Robert Shearer, Chicago's 49th Ward Republican Committeeman. Shearer (see post below) has done his Democrat neighbors a huge disservice by allowing a corrupt pig like Alderman Joe Moore to steal an election (we have pictures, Joe Moore, of you standing next to a woman while she is voting). Pigs like David Fagus, 49th Ward Democratic Committeeman, who allows any warm body be an election judge - the dumber the better. Fagus would lick filth off of Cook County President Todd Stroger's boot if asked. Stroger, a Democrat who oversees the most nightmarish public health care system in the U.S., is one of the most revile men in Illinois right now, second only, perhaps, to Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich. Meanwhile, here in Rogers Park, one of Alderman Moore's most faithful bootlickers is Michael James, a man who is addicted to a 1968 motorcycle ride to Mexico and his pitiful delusion that his prankster participation in the 1968 Democratic Convention riots in Chicago were serious politics, actually accomplished something, and that more than 30 people still give a shit about it. James loves to pose as a "progressive" and an "activist," but he is one of the neighborhoods biggest - and least competent - capitalists. He gets tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars annually from his aging mother. His restaurant has numerous liquor license and health code violations. Daily, apologists and bootlickers of Moore, Fagus, James, Stroger and the rest of the Machine defend these oppressors and fakers.

What happened to us? What happened to you?