John's Disses

I’m not really a partisan guy, although if I had to choose between the two major political parties, it would have to be the Democrats. I think party loyalty is just as weak and corrupt as anything else.

Fox News is a good example of this. They aren’t concerned with anything but the Republican Party regaining, and then retaining power. They try to come off as non-partisan but any Republicans they choose to attack have colored outside the ultra-neo-con party lines, it’s never because of any type of corruption, hypocrisy or betrayal of the American people. I’m always amazed when their party propaganda actually shapes someone’s world view. They accuse Obama of being communist, but Fox News is the GOP’s version of the former Soviet Union’s Communist Party’s Pravda.

And the Democratic Party loyalists I know are just as guilty of simplifying the issues and not diving very deeply for truth, so they’re no better than the Fox News crowd. We need to be able to separate the bullshit vying for political power from real issues and solutions. You aren’t gonna get it from any corporate news organization, although MSNBC comes closest. We’ve had everything simplified for us for so many years, between Blue and Red, the massive missing pieces of truth are a lot to take in and very messy.

’Inconvenient’ to say the least.

I’ve had the title “My Baby Left Me for the GOP” floating around my head for a couple years as a tribute  to The Ramones’ “The KKK Took My Baby Away”. Earlier this year I decided to finally turn my title into a song. You can download it here for free on my Facebook page.

The song is total fiction and not meant as an endorsement of the Democratic Party. But, although there isn’t much difference between the two parties, and I know plenty of KKK-esque Democrats, the GOP is much more attractive to people who lean in that direction.

I’m not against being conservative, but then again, neither is Barack Obama. He’s more of a Reaganite than a socialist any day. It’s just that both parties have veered so far to the right since the 1980s that you don’t notice it. Clinton was the same. The Republicans hated him for stealing their ideas, not because they didn’t like his ideas. It’s about power. He had it, they wanted it, so they spent millions of our tax dollars investigating him until years later they caught him getting a blow job.

And then they had no choice but to veer even more to the right to show a difference between themselves and the Democrats.

Anyway, my friend Dave who does the From the Burro podcast out of Nashville, featured “My Baby Left Me for the GOP” on his most recent Episode 113. Dave is much more conservative than I am (the artwork for this episode shows Sarah Palin as Wonder Woman) but is also a huge Ramones fan and likes the song. I think that’s awesome, and shows a very open mind. He’s obviously not a Party guy either.

Go here to check it out, and be sure to subscribe to From the Burro.

Dave also plays guitar and sings in a band called Tokyo Pop Stars who call themselves “the bastard child of Nirvana and The Beatles”. Here’s their Myspace.

One day I’ll write a song about the Dems and their bullshit too. We need a third, and truly populist party. The two parties we have now are just competing to see which one will rule the one-party Corporatist State we are becoming. Neither of them want to stop that from happening. And as much as you might like saving money at Wal-Mart, it’s not gonna be an easy life for very many of us.