Right: Four out of five creepy bus magnates favour keeping homowork out of Scotland’s schools.

Generally when I’m in reverie about the compelling amount of bullshit that makes up this American dream today, I keep in touch with reality by reminding myself about the bullshit suffered by our Redcoat neighbors across the sea. Surveillance cameras — Afghanistan — Keep the Clause — Princess Diana — Robbie Williams — holy fuck, does Britain suck. Let’s not even get started on the antigastarbeiter swarthy-horde BNP fucknauts or the tiresome god-botherers who back them up. However.

It strikes me that in the UK, and in Europe and the rest of the damn world in general, there’s actually a certain amount of struggle going on. At the very least, the English can be relied on to piss and moan about fooking Labour being a bunch of fooking cunts, and they actually win their strikes from time to time. We’ll kindly overlook the homoeopathic remedies to prevent your poor wee laddies from going gay after doing their homowork. In the US, not even the UAW can be relied on anymore to put the management’s balls in a vice. In Burma, we’re seeing protesters go up against assault rifles to demand basic freedoms. We’ve got a government run by insane apocalyptic cultists and larcenous gangsters that’s killed around a million-plus people, destabilized what was already the world’s most volatile region, and appears to have its knives out for one of the only remaining hopes for a modicum of stable, indigenous independence there. And we pretty much just sit down and let it happen.

Sure, we bitch about how the cowardly Democrats aren’t doing what we elected them to do, but let’s be honest with ourselves — they never will. What are we going to do? Vote Green? Vote Republican? Issue primary challenge after primary challenge to run the warmongering bastards out? No. It was tried once, and now Joe Lieberman is more powerful than ever as the Democrats’ swing vote. For their efforts, the Lamont boosters were excoriated as Stalinesque purgers, partisan fanatics willing to stab one of their own in the back for the minor heresy of enthusiastically supporting a criminal and inhuman war. It’s not fucking worth it, friends. The Democrats aren’t our cowardly and meek representatives that need a good kicking to get back into fighting shape. As an institution, as a party, they are wholeheartedly behind the program of American imperialism, corporatism, and exceptionalism.

Britain’s in the same boat as we are, but at least they have the moral fortitude to fight for the oars.