The one amazing thing is how not one candidate mentioned the fact that we have over 60 million people (at the most conservative estimate) consuming marijuana on a daily basis: and the United States due to this fact has more people in prison than any country on the face of the earth: but all there is, is: silence.

It's strange. How did our entire generation become a herd of hypocrites? Why do still have this ridiculous prohibition going on when nearly 3 out of 5 adult American citizens are getting high every day?

If we had legalized the soft drugs and split the drug cartels into the hard side and the now legal "soft side" we would have wiped out organized crime's intrusion into the suburbs and life of the middle class users who zone out to deal with the pressures of the cubicle of the modern galley-slave chained by their cell phone to the oar of high-priced slavery: most of us work around the clock; all that changes is the cast; never the urgency.

Without these happily sedated worker bees our workplace would come to a halt: alcohol does not suit everyone: some people like to be able to actually think and speak while sober; and alcohol is also a depressant: much like the hollow world we have constructed for ourselves: we have everything but the understanding of how to enter Eternity: thus we all continue to die; better that we imprison the very people whose productivity comes from the daily fact of being able to psychically "decompress" everyday to bear the mental strain of performing under a more and more unforgiving corporate hierarchy driven to self-defeating greed.

Meanwhile our candidates say nothing: the topic is too explosive so we can all continue being terrified children in front of our own children and thus still remaining the "children" everyone criticized so rightly in the 1960's before. It was for not fighting for the truth we really held: we folded under the strain of actually figuring out what we had done wrong; and how to make it right. If we could only have stood up and said:

" We will die for Peace: but we will not kill for it."

Then people would have said: that sounds principled and sensible. But all we said was "Hell no; we won't go." Thus we all sounded like unpatriotic jerks stumping for the Red Chinese; and the Black Panthers didn't help by selling Mao's Little Red Book because they bought each copy for 3 dollars and sold them for 6 dollars: Revolution for the unemployed; not the unintelligent! Yet now we have a new paradigm: a black man in a formerly all-white House: but it is Michelle Obama who will have to answer to the Queen of the South; the Black Soul of America is the black Christian women of the black church: and the black virgin is known to those who know Wisdom: and her daughter. But of Obama: as Robert Anton Wilson used to say: in Egypt: "Osiris is a black god!" And Hilary is doing a pretty good imitation of Isis: the white goddess. Have any even thought of it? I doubt it.

Until now; of course. Well; better a late Messiah: than none at all.

Learn more about this author, christopher witt diamant.
Click here to send this author comments or questions.

---

Add your voice

Know something about US elections 2008: Are candidates missing an opportunity to connect with voters on open government issues??
We want to hear your view. Write now!