In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
It's the Ass, Stupid!
During election night I had a little map of the United States, with red and blue stickers to put on each state as it was called according to news media. Yesterday I moved a foot stool and saw a little blue circle stuck on the floor, with a donkey in the middle. And I felt like an ass.
It's time for the Democrats to take a flying leap off a tall building. We need another party. All they will do now is move further to the right and get "religion" while Republicans sneer and publicly defame them with odious judgments about their "moral character." What horseshit. I never liked Kerry. I thought he was a lousy candidate. They only reason I had any hope at all was because he's a rich bastard and he could match Bush's warchest, and for that reason alone I thought he might conceivably have a shot at it. In fact, I would have voted for my dog over Bush, I think he'd be a better president. He couldn't possibly be any worse.
No, I felt like an ass not because of cynical Republican politicians -- who, after all, are only doing what any human ape would do, ruthlessly exploit raw power invested in their hands by a weak-minded, easily manipulated citizenry -- I feel like an ass because of the country itself. I'm deeply ashamed of it.
Nationalism, in any form, is probably the greatest threat to a republic, especially a liberal constitutional democracy based on the rule of law. I won't go into that particular rant just now. The point is this: if you whip up fear and launch permanent war against any and all who disagree with what you plan to do to them -- for whatever reason -- then the heel of fascism comes down, directly on the face of the citizen. A jack-booted thug is a jack-booted thug, I don't care what country you come from. And a heel in the face in the name of God is a heel in the face nonetheless -- I don't care whose God you happen to be taking advantage of. Sure, fight fire with fire, I'm all for it. Only thing is, we're killing all the wrong people for all the wrong reasons. Who do you think will pay the ultimate price? The side with the fanciest uniforms always loses. Check your history books.
Why didn't John Kerry stand up and speak out loudly against this unjust, unforgiving so-called war? Why didn't he point out the obvious: that Bush is a craven coward who has no respect at all for the government of the United States and its famous, hard-won Constitution? Why didn't he invoke World War 2 and what all those men fought and died for -- namely, our Bill of Rights and the freedom not to have a brutal ideology inflicted on us all? The freedom to go about your business? The newest freedom ever to exist in the history of nations? Instead he let that precious memory and terrible time become twisted around and used by propaganda ministers, our very own Goebbels, Mr. Rove. Now that century-defining conflict has been enshrined in the mantle of the State and its noble cause forgotten, along with the reason those men died. How dare we disrepect and dishonor our own war dead for a radical fascist agenda, forced down our throats by criminals? Who are we to invade a sovereign nation, who did nothing to us? Why is a fact suddenly the enemy? And why are exactly half of Americans too stupid too realize what's going on here? What was so wrong with the Powell Doctrine that it had to be jettisoned like a watermelon seed between Bush's thumb and forefinger in a blinding minute, with no debate? Why didn't the nation rise up? Where was Congress? No, instead we elected vermin for successive terms so we can bomb even more foreign brown people out of their cities, out of their homes, out of their skins, out of existence. Do you know how many times I've heard idiots saying "Let's just bomb the fuckers. Kill 'em all." I actually heard one guy on the radio answer "Yes" to the incredulous question, "Are you seriously suggesting that we kill more than 250 million people?"
There it is folks. Bushamerica. Kill 'em all. These trash-talking cowards have the loudest voice and make the least sacrifice. Why should they? Let somebody else do the dirty work, and if they get blown up, too bad. The good news is that we're killing way more of them than they are of us. And if you get cold at night in that chilly desert, you can always warm your toes with spent uranium 235. At least there's no draft, and my taxes won't go up, because my God is pretty damn big, a lot bigger than yours, and if you don't like it, then fuck off out of my country.
The problem is, though, we're in their country. They can't fuck off. And that about sums up the war. And our beleaguered, overextended troops are getting blown to pieces right and left, every day, while your taxes stay low and your president maxes out every credit card he can get his hands on, which is all of them, including and especially yours. Remember: It's your money! That's why it's all free. At whatever interest they feel like charging you, including retroactive fees, fining you and upping your rate for late payments on things that have nothing to do with your credit card. Think I'm making this up? Believe whatever you want. The Grand Canyon is only a few hundred years old. It's just really deep.
Getting drafty in here, isn't it? Just you wait. I am fervently "praying" that every damn fool who voted Republican in the last election has a sturdy child to send to Iraq to relieve the ones who will be there for as long as they can breathe that hot, radioactive desert air.
And shame on our country for sentencing your children to die in someone else's country for George W. Bush's sake -- for a lie.
I hope they make it, I really do.
- Michael 11:49 AM - [PermaLink] -
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