Sarah Palin: Not a Real Candidate

Frustrated political bloggers everywhere are bordering self-destruction over this interview. Here's yet another stutter-filled moment from the interview. To think that Sarah Palin could have even been considered a candidate for vice-president is truly remarkable. I've never seen, in my 28 years of life, a more unfit person for political office. Of course, Conservative Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz comes close.

I would feel sympathy for Palin if she weren't a figure-head for such a dangerous political party responsible for engendering so much human suffering, whether from political wars or economic crisis. US citizens must surely be able to connect the dots between this party's political policies and the current economic crisis. McCain is Cheney on steroids, and Palin is simply a clumsy puppet. And they all serve to deregulate the economy so that the rich can plunder the world-wide economy by instituting unfair trade policies. And I hope Canadian's will recognize some patterns here. The Conservatives are simply a carbon copy of the Republication party and are doomed to repeat the same political decisions. Both simply whore themselves out to today's free-market, corporate debauchery. 

ANP has a great spot, The End of Free Market Capitalism, as well as a fab interview with Charlie Cray, about the financial crisis in the US. Cray uses the words "corporate communism" to describe the central planning behind the current economic disaster. This reminds me of an interview Thomas Pawlick (The End of Food) gave to CBC's The Current, where he compared Soviet Communism's approach to agriculture to modern Capitalism's mono-cultural factory farms. Oddly, these bureaucratic collectives, of Soviet government or American Corporations, are not that dissimilar. Both are technocratic. And they've now both failed to manifest their ideological utopias. One of socialist equality, and the other of trickle-down economics.