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That the Western media is shocked the lunatic Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won his bid for a second term as Iran’s president is not surprising. That many Iranians are surprised is nothing short of stunning. Did they believe their country’s real powerbrokers, the mullahs, would allow Iran to break the hold their Warner Brother’s cartoon leaders have held them in since the days of the Ayatollah Khomeini? As one of America’s Ayatollahs, Hillary Clinton, once said, “There is no opting out.”
Many Iranians took to the streets, convinced the election was stolen from their candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi. They set banks, tires and trashcans afire in their anger. In reality, Moussavi stood for office only after Iran’s supreme mullahs approved his candidacy. Iran’s mullah’s show a narrow tolerance toward democracy as long as it stays within the confines of Islam’s harsh status quo. This has a familiar ring.
Here in America, the two mainstream political parties, and the media who herd them, work tirelessly to maintain our nation’s political status quo. When was that last time you saw third-party candidates participate in nationally televised debates? In reality, our two-party system is a sham. President Barrack Obama deflects charges that his policies are socialistic by correctly pointing out that he is merely building on the policies of “compassionate conservative” George W. Bush. When redistributing other people’s money, no matter who does it or under what political banner, socialism is socialism. During a recent interview segment on MSNBC, a Republican “strategist” leveled the charge that Obama’s national health care proposals were socialist. The Democratic strategist countered that Obama’s plan was more cost effective than the one proposed by Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
As our economic crisis deepens, one can only hope the average American comes to realize that subtle and nuanced differences between Democrats and Republicans are as insignificant as the differences separating Iran’s mullah-approved office seekers. It’s time to move beyond our dysfunctional two-party system no matter how much it upsets the guardians of the status quo – the mullahs of the mainstream media. Let’s hope the “tea party” movement transforms into a political party for those of us who view the ballot and mumble under our breath, “none-of-the-above.”
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