America is dying do to the elites indifference to the well being of the nation and the average citizen's disinclination to do anything about it. After all, the average Joe knows very well that something is very wrong but lacks either the knowledge or courage to bring about the needed change. So he flails in anger, making himself look silly, allowing the elites to laugh at him and not change their behavior. So the lifeblood of America drains away, with no end in sight.
It truly is amazing how indifferent the American elites are to the well being of America. They treat the nation of their birth as just another company to loot, just another teardown to make room for another McMansion. Hey, the place is dying, so sell it off for the sum of its parts! If the place dies, so what? We are citizens of the world! We can live anywhere we want! If millions of less fortunate Americans are destroyed by their greed ,cruelty, and corruption so what? We earned it! We deserve our wealth and everyone else's too. We're just better than you!
Nobody comments on how the US elites indifference to their native land is quite unique in the world. Vladimir Putin might be a bastard, but nobody doubts he cares about Russia. The Chinese Communists might be cruel to their people, but they care about the future greatness of China. You get the feeling that the Masters of the Universe on Wall Street or Silicon Valley would not give a damm about the demise of their fellow Americans as long as they got their money. In euros, of course.
It is very simple how the elites made their money. They would like to tell you that they made it through brilliant innovation on Wall Street and Silicon Valley. Wrong. Most of their wealth has been simple cost cutting. What has the cost that has been cut? Labor. The 1 percent's formula for riches? Cut wages through the forces of globalization and stuff it into their own pockets. Its as simple as that. They would like to pretend that it is through their superior intelligence and innovation. But in 2016, Silicon Valley is largely being exposed as an emperor without any clothes. Instead of the flying cars of The Jetsons, we get fancy phones and 140 characters. Steve Jobs is dead. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have nothing more to offer than hot air. There is nothing big on the horizon, Uber and Snapchat notwithstanding. The Superinnovative Cool Cats made money the old fashioned way. Through slavery.
What have We The People done about this? Not much. Sure they get angry. Big deal. My beagle Alfie gets angry when you keep him off the couch. But the duties of citizenship that our Creator demands of us seems to be beyond us. Maybe we lack the intelligence to realize that our oppressors are the cool cats who sit in their jeans on Casual Friday, rather than minorities or Muslim terrorists. You are thousands and thousands of times more likely to be made homeless my someone sending your job to China rather than being attacked by terrorists.
Two totally unrelated movies can tell us the extend of the problem. One is "Slap Shot", the hilarious Paul Newman classic about minor league hockey. The subplot in the movie is that the team is going to be disbanded because the towns steel mill is closing. "Slap Shot" was made in 1975, 41 years ago. The other movie is Alan Parker 's Mississippi Burning" where the Gene Hackman character tells a story about how his father killed his black neighbor's mule because "son, if you ain't better than a nigger, than what are you." The point of bringing up these two movies? One, is that the betrayal of the working class has been going on for two generations now. Second, it has been allowed to go on because the white working class would rather defend white privilege than fight for a better and fairer world.
Yes, White privilege exists. Why else would whites pay such a cost to defend it? There is no such thing as "driving while white". No such thing as white ghettos. Whites are privileged in this country in so many ways,it is not surprising that they would go to such great lengths to defend it. There is only one problem. White elites in Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Washington don't give a damm about white privilege. Because destroying American white privilege is how they make their money!
The hard pressed American white male could have responded to this challenge in several ways. One is working to improve their skills. On one hand, this has proven to be no guarantee of a good job. On the other hand, there has been much comment on how females have worked harder to improve their skills while many males have remained passive. Hard times are no excuse for doing nothing, but many whites have done just that. Even better, White American Male could have made common cause with his fellow human beings to create a just society. Didn't wanna do that either. So what did he do? Follow 40 years of white backlash politicians. These pols would promise to defend, in secret coded words, white privilege and blame everything on black welfare queens. Indeed, make it sound like the only Americans who work hard are white males. Everyone else is sucking off the government. Of course, these pols turned around and took the money of the white elites as they destroyed tens of millions of jobs!For forty years! Well now. White American Male has seen through their ruse! He has rejected his old Republican buddies! He now has a solution! DONALD TRUMP!!!
Good God.
Well it looks like America's double whammy will continue for awhile. Will America survive? Who knows?All I know is that Jesus Christ has promised us that the gates of Hell will not prevail against His creation. Good thing too. Looks like America might not be so lucky.
Dance with your Donald, Fellow American. I will put my hope in the Lord.
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Saturday, March 5, 2016
Democrats Giggle as Fascism Sweeps America.
Wake up Demmies.
UPDATE: I wrote this in March. Never have I been so sad to be so right.
The GOP is not "imploding". Repeat. THE GOP IS NOT IMPLODING. Despite itself, it is merely expanding its base. Remember, the problem for them was figuring out how to keep their racist base appeased while expanding their appeal to others. Marco Rubio, among others, failed miserably at this. Well, here comes Donald Trump to save the day! The Donald titillates with racial raw meat while expanding from that base. How? By appealing to the voters legitimate economic concerns. The very same concerns that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats have spent decades ignoring.
Trump will slam Hillary on free trade agreements. Hillary has supported every single one of these job killing monstrosities. Said they would be create jobs. Said we all benefit from cheap Chinese crap from Wal-Mart (where Hillary once served on its board of directors). Nobody believes this BS anymore. Except Washington insiders. Well. there goes Obama, negotiating yet another one. In secret. Hillary now says she opposes TPP. Yeah, surre.
Trump will slam Hillary on Wall Street. She has taken tens of millions in speaking fees from them directly. She has taken over $140 MILLION in speaking fees directly from special interests! Did it ever occur to Bill and Hillary to ease up on the piggishness? Well, expect the Donald to have much fun with this. Stand up to Wall Street? Yeah, sure, Hillary.
Trump will slam Hillary on Social Security. Trump understands that people are scared and has decided to exploit their fears by claiming he will protect Social Security. Meanwhile, it is an article of faith among establishment Democrats that SS must be cut, usually in some Grand Bargain with the GOP. Nothing like Useless Democrats pissing on the Third Rail of politics.
Trump will slam from all sides on matters of war. On one hand, he will do the standard right wing riff of talking tough and "making America Great Again". On the other hand, Hillary has supported EVERY foolish military engagement we get into that manages to be stupid, bloody, pointless. expensive. and unending. Imagine being vulnerable to being called weak and a warmonger at the same time. A neat trick, unless you're Hillary Clinton.
Establishment Democrats will spend the fall of 2016 waiting for Trump to collapse, Just like Establishment Republicans spent the fall of 2015 waiting for Trump to collapse. The GOP will stop imploding and will fall in like with the Donald to save their skins. A demoralized base, having watched Bernie Sanders get mau-maued and "superdelegated" to death shows no signs of turning out. The black vote, having helped bury Sanders despite a sterling civil rights record, might not come out like they did not turn out in 2010 or 2014.
I hate Donald Trump. I do not believe his populist rhetoric. I am appalled how totally unprepared the Democratic Party is to deal with him.
President Donald Trump.
Thank you Useless Democrats.
Have another slice of brie.
UPDATE: I wrote this in March. Never have I been so sad to be so right.
The GOP is not "imploding". Repeat. THE GOP IS NOT IMPLODING. Despite itself, it is merely expanding its base. Remember, the problem for them was figuring out how to keep their racist base appeased while expanding their appeal to others. Marco Rubio, among others, failed miserably at this. Well, here comes Donald Trump to save the day! The Donald titillates with racial raw meat while expanding from that base. How? By appealing to the voters legitimate economic concerns. The very same concerns that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats have spent decades ignoring.
Trump will slam Hillary on free trade agreements. Hillary has supported every single one of these job killing monstrosities. Said they would be create jobs. Said we all benefit from cheap Chinese crap from Wal-Mart (where Hillary once served on its board of directors). Nobody believes this BS anymore. Except Washington insiders. Well. there goes Obama, negotiating yet another one. In secret. Hillary now says she opposes TPP. Yeah, surre.
Trump will slam Hillary on Wall Street. She has taken tens of millions in speaking fees from them directly. She has taken over $140 MILLION in speaking fees directly from special interests! Did it ever occur to Bill and Hillary to ease up on the piggishness? Well, expect the Donald to have much fun with this. Stand up to Wall Street? Yeah, sure, Hillary.
Trump will slam Hillary on Social Security. Trump understands that people are scared and has decided to exploit their fears by claiming he will protect Social Security. Meanwhile, it is an article of faith among establishment Democrats that SS must be cut, usually in some Grand Bargain with the GOP. Nothing like Useless Democrats pissing on the Third Rail of politics.
Trump will slam from all sides on matters of war. On one hand, he will do the standard right wing riff of talking tough and "making America Great Again". On the other hand, Hillary has supported EVERY foolish military engagement we get into that manages to be stupid, bloody, pointless. expensive. and unending. Imagine being vulnerable to being called weak and a warmonger at the same time. A neat trick, unless you're Hillary Clinton.
Establishment Democrats will spend the fall of 2016 waiting for Trump to collapse, Just like Establishment Republicans spent the fall of 2015 waiting for Trump to collapse. The GOP will stop imploding and will fall in like with the Donald to save their skins. A demoralized base, having watched Bernie Sanders get mau-maued and "superdelegated" to death shows no signs of turning out. The black vote, having helped bury Sanders despite a sterling civil rights record, might not come out like they did not turn out in 2010 or 2014.
I hate Donald Trump. I do not believe his populist rhetoric. I am appalled how totally unprepared the Democratic Party is to deal with him.
President Donald Trump.
Thank you Useless Democrats.
Have another slice of brie.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Real Life Star Wars. OR Hillary Clinton Lost and I Feel Fine..
UPDATE: Well, Hillary did not get out of the way. Look what happened
A so called Bright Side of the Force that has made peace with the Death Star is more insidious, more depraved, more evil than the Death Star itself.
For even if the Death Star is totally in control, as long as there is a Bright Side of the Force fighting against it, no matter how tiny, no matter how beaten, there is still hope. but if the Bright side goes along with the Dark Side, becomes its junior partner, there can be no hope, because the darkness will eventually consume the light and snuff it out, leaving no hope.
Today, the world's 65 richest people control as much wealth than the poorest 3.5 billion people. This can be described by the following absurd equation:
65=3.500,000,000
This travesty was brought to you by worldwide economic globalization, which is really a system of global economic SLAVERY. In the old days, the slaveholder paid for the housing and food, such as it was, and gave it directly to the slaves. Now, the modern slave is given a small wage, maybe given a government subsidy, and is left to fend for herself. The slaveholders then call this 'freedom' and say that the slaves should be grateful for it. If you think this is a harsh or outrageous statement, you need to look at the math again.
65=3,500,000,000
For Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the rest of the establishment Democratic Party, this is just a fine and dandy state of affairs.
This state of affairs is horribly offensive to any system of morality and decency that humanity has ever devised. Judaism. Christianity. Islam. Buddhism. Ancient Greek Paganism. Secular Humanism. you name it. The current system cannot be morally defended on any level whatsoever.
65=3,500,000,000
But watch Hillary Clinton tie herself in knots to defend the interests of the 65 while pretending to be the friend of the 3,500,000,000.
Why am I picking on Hillary? why am I not picking on Donald Trump or Marco Rubio? Well, it you read my previous posts, you will see that I already have. They deserve our scorn and disgust. The problem is that there will always be a Death Star, or at least someone trying to build one. There will never be a shortage of would be Darth Vaders. There will never be a shortage of stormtroopers to serve them.The bitch goddess Power will always have a hold on many, if not most souls. The issue is not the quantity of sinners. The issue is the quality of saints. The more overwhelming the darkness, the brighter a pinprick of light.
65=3,500,000,000
How can anyone with even a tiny scrap of humanity go along with that?
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are going along with it. Sorry, but the standards for Jedi Knights will always be much higher than those of stormtroopers. Sorry if that pisses Democrats off. Or scares the shit out of them.
When faced with the Death Star that is our current situation, which threatens the very existence of humanity and the planet itself, there can be no choice but to try to blow the whole dam thing up. Hillary Clinton, with her "pragmatism", her "no we can't", just distracts us from what we must do. If she gets in , the status quo will continue. Except for some cosmetic changes and maybe a few social issue distractions, the 65 will get even less in number and the3,500,000,000 even more. Just like under any GOP president. She will continue to use the United States military to enforce the global slavery system, just like under any GOP president. For as repulsive as, Trump, Rubio, Bush, or Kasich or whomever are, I am not worried about them. I am worried that the good people will lose the willingness to fight, for that is our only hope.
Let me repeat.
A so called Bright Side of the Force that has made peace with the Death Star is more insidious, more depraved, more evil than the Death Star itself.
For even if the Death Star is totally in control, as long as there is a Bright Side of the Force fighting against it, no matter how tiny, no matter how beaten, there is still hope. but if the Bright side goes along with the Dark Side, becomes its junior partner, there can be no hope, because the darkness will eventually consume the light and snuff it out, leaving no hope.
For God's sake Hillary, just get the hell out of the way.
A so called Bright Side of the Force that has made peace with the Death Star is more insidious, more depraved, more evil than the Death Star itself.
For even if the Death Star is totally in control, as long as there is a Bright Side of the Force fighting against it, no matter how tiny, no matter how beaten, there is still hope. but if the Bright side goes along with the Dark Side, becomes its junior partner, there can be no hope, because the darkness will eventually consume the light and snuff it out, leaving no hope.
Today, the world's 65 richest people control as much wealth than the poorest 3.5 billion people. This can be described by the following absurd equation:
65=3.500,000,000
This travesty was brought to you by worldwide economic globalization, which is really a system of global economic SLAVERY. In the old days, the slaveholder paid for the housing and food, such as it was, and gave it directly to the slaves. Now, the modern slave is given a small wage, maybe given a government subsidy, and is left to fend for herself. The slaveholders then call this 'freedom' and say that the slaves should be grateful for it. If you think this is a harsh or outrageous statement, you need to look at the math again.
65=3,500,000,000
For Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the rest of the establishment Democratic Party, this is just a fine and dandy state of affairs.
This state of affairs is horribly offensive to any system of morality and decency that humanity has ever devised. Judaism. Christianity. Islam. Buddhism. Ancient Greek Paganism. Secular Humanism. you name it. The current system cannot be morally defended on any level whatsoever.
65=3,500,000,000
But watch Hillary Clinton tie herself in knots to defend the interests of the 65 while pretending to be the friend of the 3,500,000,000.
Why am I picking on Hillary? why am I not picking on Donald Trump or Marco Rubio? Well, it you read my previous posts, you will see that I already have. They deserve our scorn and disgust. The problem is that there will always be a Death Star, or at least someone trying to build one. There will never be a shortage of would be Darth Vaders. There will never be a shortage of stormtroopers to serve them.The bitch goddess Power will always have a hold on many, if not most souls. The issue is not the quantity of sinners. The issue is the quality of saints. The more overwhelming the darkness, the brighter a pinprick of light.
65=3,500,000,000
How can anyone with even a tiny scrap of humanity go along with that?
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are going along with it. Sorry, but the standards for Jedi Knights will always be much higher than those of stormtroopers. Sorry if that pisses Democrats off. Or scares the shit out of them.
When faced with the Death Star that is our current situation, which threatens the very existence of humanity and the planet itself, there can be no choice but to try to blow the whole dam thing up. Hillary Clinton, with her "pragmatism", her "no we can't", just distracts us from what we must do. If she gets in , the status quo will continue. Except for some cosmetic changes and maybe a few social issue distractions, the 65 will get even less in number and the3,500,000,000 even more. Just like under any GOP president. She will continue to use the United States military to enforce the global slavery system, just like under any GOP president. For as repulsive as, Trump, Rubio, Bush, or Kasich or whomever are, I am not worried about them. I am worried that the good people will lose the willingness to fight, for that is our only hope.
Let me repeat.
A so called Bright Side of the Force that has made peace with the Death Star is more insidious, more depraved, more evil than the Death Star itself.
For even if the Death Star is totally in control, as long as there is a Bright Side of the Force fighting against it, no matter how tiny, no matter how beaten, there is still hope. but if the Bright side goes along with the Dark Side, becomes its junior partner, there can be no hope, because the darkness will eventually consume the light and snuff it out, leaving no hope.
For God's sake Hillary, just get the hell out of the way.
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Go Ahead and Hate Your Neighbor, Because Poverty is Now Next Door.
It used to be in America that it was easy to hate the poor because poverty was something that happened elsewhere, usually to someone with darker skin than you. This didn't stop the politicians from whipping up fear and hatred, but at least America was prosperous enough to make sure the fear was more theoretical than real, if you lived in the right neighborhood. But now, with the deliberate destruction of the American middle class, poverty is just not for people of color anymore. Your next door neighbor, right here in Suburb Beautiful, could lose his job, his pension, and his savings, and be plunged into poverty. Has that made Americans more compassionate to the poor? Not exactly. In fact, the more people see poverty, the more people hate the poor. And you are more likely to hate people poorer than you if you are a member of the working poor.
The Tampa Bay Times recently printed an article by political writer Alex MacGillis. He tackles the well worn subject of exactly why the working poor vote Republican supposedly against their own interests , which just happened yet again in Kentucky. Turns out that the working poor, the next to last quintile on the income ladder, resent the government aid that people in the lowest quintile get, because they feel they don't deserve it. Same song, different race. The fact that the poor now in America are much more likely now to be a neighbor or even a member of your own family has not changed white America's hatred in the least. If fact they are doubling down on it. Everyone now has a story about how Cousin Randy won't work because he's hooked on Oxy but still gets a government check. Or how the Joneses next door bought a steak with their food stamps. It doesn't matter if these stories are true or not, they spread like wildfire, much like the stories Reagan told about welfare queens. Everybody says that they don't mind people getting assistance if "they really need it" but everyone assumes that people getting assistance don't need it or don't deserve it. Its the same old story, except the hatred is directed toward your neighbor. Very sad. In a time when everyone in the bottom 90% is getting squeezed to the limit by the elites incompetence and greed, the working poor are trying to keep their self esteem by looking down on people less fortunate then them rather than showing compassion for them. I, and my fellow lefties, are forever hoping that people will join forces with their neighbor to fight against the common enemy that is destroying us all. And of course we are forever disappointed.
We are losing because we do not realize that the enemy is Original Sin. You might wonder how the scorned and hated poor people are reacting to their neighbor's cruelty. Well we know one thing: they are not voting. At all. It is obvious these people have been so browbeaten that they do not have the self esteem to fight for themselves. They do not believe that Jesus Christ, through his Passion, Death and Resurrection, gives hope, and most of all, DIGNITY to us all, no matter how poor we are. You do not hate your neighbor if you believe that Jesus loves them and gives then eternal life. Nor do you cave in to despair OR the scorn of a $9.00 an hour Wal-Mart clerk if you believe you are the recipient of Infinite Love. The choice is ours. We can all take solace in the Infinite Power of Jesus Christ and make a better life for all of us. Or we can believe we are on our own, and let Evil pick us off one by one. It is obvious that too many Americans are taking the wrong path. Soon, the people lucky enough to have a job will too, get picked off.
The Tampa Bay Times recently printed an article by political writer Alex MacGillis. He tackles the well worn subject of exactly why the working poor vote Republican supposedly against their own interests , which just happened yet again in Kentucky. Turns out that the working poor, the next to last quintile on the income ladder, resent the government aid that people in the lowest quintile get, because they feel they don't deserve it. Same song, different race. The fact that the poor now in America are much more likely now to be a neighbor or even a member of your own family has not changed white America's hatred in the least. If fact they are doubling down on it. Everyone now has a story about how Cousin Randy won't work because he's hooked on Oxy but still gets a government check. Or how the Joneses next door bought a steak with their food stamps. It doesn't matter if these stories are true or not, they spread like wildfire, much like the stories Reagan told about welfare queens. Everybody says that they don't mind people getting assistance if "they really need it" but everyone assumes that people getting assistance don't need it or don't deserve it. Its the same old story, except the hatred is directed toward your neighbor. Very sad. In a time when everyone in the bottom 90% is getting squeezed to the limit by the elites incompetence and greed, the working poor are trying to keep their self esteem by looking down on people less fortunate then them rather than showing compassion for them. I, and my fellow lefties, are forever hoping that people will join forces with their neighbor to fight against the common enemy that is destroying us all. And of course we are forever disappointed.
We are losing because we do not realize that the enemy is Original Sin. You might wonder how the scorned and hated poor people are reacting to their neighbor's cruelty. Well we know one thing: they are not voting. At all. It is obvious these people have been so browbeaten that they do not have the self esteem to fight for themselves. They do not believe that Jesus Christ, through his Passion, Death and Resurrection, gives hope, and most of all, DIGNITY to us all, no matter how poor we are. You do not hate your neighbor if you believe that Jesus loves them and gives then eternal life. Nor do you cave in to despair OR the scorn of a $9.00 an hour Wal-Mart clerk if you believe you are the recipient of Infinite Love. The choice is ours. We can all take solace in the Infinite Power of Jesus Christ and make a better life for all of us. Or we can believe we are on our own, and let Evil pick us off one by one. It is obvious that too many Americans are taking the wrong path. Soon, the people lucky enough to have a job will too, get picked off.
Monday, November 23, 2015
Are You Happy You Smeared Bernie Sanders?
UPDATE....Once again I was right. Reading Thomas Frank"s article In Harpers, it is clear that the Lamestream Media's hated candidate was not Donald Trump but....Bernie Samders!! Never have I been so sad to be so right.
It is hilarious to watch the Washington elites ad the Lamestream Media poo-poo Bernie Sanders as he gets stronger. First he was a fringe candidate who would be lucky to break out of single digits. Then it wasn't a big deal after he broke 20 percent in polls. Then we were told to disregard the huge crowds and the huge amount of cash he was raising from the grassroots. After all, we were told that crowds don't matter. Grass roots funding does not matter, because after all, the Big Boys and Democratic Party Insiders were all for Hillary. Now we are told that it doesn't matter if Bernie wins Iowa and New Hampshire! Unbelievable! I have been a total political junkie since 1976 and never has it been said that losing Iowa and New Hampshire is not a big deal. In fact, such a result has always been described as a disaster. When Hillary was on the brink of losing both states in 2008, it was described as a quick kill for Barack Obama, until Hillary pulled out New Hampshire after some well timed blubbering. Why, is it all of a sudden, not a big deal in 2016?? We are told that its because of Hillary's strength with minority voters., which are few in Iowa and N.H. What, you don't think it will matter with minority voters after Hillary gets off to a disastrous start? You don't think that the Clinton's long record of race baiting whenever they get in trouble will not be remembered? The unions are for Hillary in Nevada!! We are told unions are dying, that they are irrelevant, except of course when they endorse Hillary Clinton.
But the real reason is that the elites have decided that Bernie Sanders must never be taken seriously. Ever. No matter what happens. No matter what is said. If we just ignore Bernie Sanders, his ultra lefty ass will just go away. The elites will say that Hillary wins debates when the polls say that Sanders won. They will say that her performance in front of the Benghazi Committee, which she essentially played it cool while the GOP made asses of themselves, is a clincher when it will be forgotten when the primaries start. Hillary is Inevitable! We said so!
Yes , Hillary is still a big favorite. But it might be a good idea if someone stopped the slide in Iowa and New Hampshire. Before people start, you know, voting.
It is hilarious to watch the Washington elites ad the Lamestream Media poo-poo Bernie Sanders as he gets stronger. First he was a fringe candidate who would be lucky to break out of single digits. Then it wasn't a big deal after he broke 20 percent in polls. Then we were told to disregard the huge crowds and the huge amount of cash he was raising from the grassroots. After all, we were told that crowds don't matter. Grass roots funding does not matter, because after all, the Big Boys and Democratic Party Insiders were all for Hillary. Now we are told that it doesn't matter if Bernie wins Iowa and New Hampshire! Unbelievable! I have been a total political junkie since 1976 and never has it been said that losing Iowa and New Hampshire is not a big deal. In fact, such a result has always been described as a disaster. When Hillary was on the brink of losing both states in 2008, it was described as a quick kill for Barack Obama, until Hillary pulled out New Hampshire after some well timed blubbering. Why, is it all of a sudden, not a big deal in 2016?? We are told that its because of Hillary's strength with minority voters., which are few in Iowa and N.H. What, you don't think it will matter with minority voters after Hillary gets off to a disastrous start? You don't think that the Clinton's long record of race baiting whenever they get in trouble will not be remembered? The unions are for Hillary in Nevada!! We are told unions are dying, that they are irrelevant, except of course when they endorse Hillary Clinton.
But the real reason is that the elites have decided that Bernie Sanders must never be taken seriously. Ever. No matter what happens. No matter what is said. If we just ignore Bernie Sanders, his ultra lefty ass will just go away. The elites will say that Hillary wins debates when the polls say that Sanders won. They will say that her performance in front of the Benghazi Committee, which she essentially played it cool while the GOP made asses of themselves, is a clincher when it will be forgotten when the primaries start. Hillary is Inevitable! We said so!
Yes , Hillary is still a big favorite. But it might be a good idea if someone stopped the slide in Iowa and New Hampshire. Before people start, you know, voting.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Ronald Reagan Continues His Stranglehold on America
Sometimes the ignorance, bigotry, and hatred in this country is so overwhelming it breaks your heart.
Exhibit A- This morning, my wife's slightly redneck but usually decent cousin posted on Facebook actually begging ISIS to kill President Obama. Really. My hands literally shook with rage and shock. After all, I knew he was a conservative, but I really never associated such levels of hatred with him. What the hell is the matter with these people? What the hell happened to make this type of thing respectable in certain circles?
Well, Ronald Reagan happened. And he is still with us.
Reagan has been called the "Great Communicator." But what exactly did he communicate? That
it is OK to indulge in your hatreds and your selfishness. Reagan made it respectable to be a racist. Reagan made it respectable to be selfish and greedy. Reagan made it respectable to be a warmonger. In short Reagan made it respectable to indulge in sin as to your public actions. We still live in Ronald Reagans dictatorship of the national soul. My entire adult life has been spent in utter disgust of the coarseness and cruelty of our national discourse. My entire adult life has been spent in the fruitless hope that this national nightmare might end. And I am always disappointed. The middle class being strangled to death? It is the result of Reagan's ideas, and they still prevail. Endless, fruitless, war? Reagan paved the way with his belligerence. After the Masters of the Universe nearly tanked Western Civilization in 2008, I thought people would finally wake up and smell the coffee. We finally elected a Democratic President without the support of the South. Finally, I thought, we have finally shrugged off the poisonous legacy of Ronald Reagan. No such luck. The hatred and ignorance is still with us, only stronger and harder than before. Fox News, Ben Carson, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Scott Walker, Rick Scott. and many more. They are all the bastard children of Ronald Reagan. All they do is follow Reagan's ideas to their viscous and poisonous extremes. They would not exist without Ronald Reagan. Uncle Ron's superficial charm is long gone. The meanness and hatred is still with us. And millions of white conservatives proudly sprew out his hatred, pleased as punched with themselves, blissfully unaware of the shriveling of their immortal souls.
How can this be so? One of the reasons is that liberals are blissfully unaware of Reagan's total triumph. It is often said that today society is the result of a deal between liberals and conservatives. Liberals got the culture while letting conservatives run the economy. But as David Sirota explains in his book Back To Our Future, the liberals never got the culture either. The ideas of the Reagan Decade, the 1980's, still have a stranglehold on our soul. This is because of the reinforcements of pop culture. The so called hippies of the 60's have been totally demonized by characters such as Forrest Gump and Michael J. Fox's Alex Keaton in Family Ties. War has been glamorized by movies like First Blood, Top Gun, Red Dawn and too many others. Pop Culture has totally glamorized the myth of the Lone Hero against the Evil, Stupid Bureaucrat. Finally we accept black people only if they no longer act black. Bill Cosby's Cliff Huxtable. Oprah Winfrey. Michael Jordan was able to bleach himself in white people's eyes. LeBron James has not. Barack Obama thought he bleached himself enough to be accepted by whites. But it turned out that Reagan's America still thinks he's a nigger. So much for "hope" and "change". Reagan's America never changes. David Sirota is an expert an pop culture as only a child of the 80's is. Read his book. You will be both greatly entertained and greatly angered. Freaking Ronald Reagan never dies.
I write this four days after the ISIS terrorist attacks on France. But I don't worry about ISIS destroying America. I'm afraid Ronald Reagan has already managed it.
Exhibit A- This morning, my wife's slightly redneck but usually decent cousin posted on Facebook actually begging ISIS to kill President Obama. Really. My hands literally shook with rage and shock. After all, I knew he was a conservative, but I really never associated such levels of hatred with him. What the hell is the matter with these people? What the hell happened to make this type of thing respectable in certain circles?
Well, Ronald Reagan happened. And he is still with us.
Reagan has been called the "Great Communicator." But what exactly did he communicate? That
it is OK to indulge in your hatreds and your selfishness. Reagan made it respectable to be a racist. Reagan made it respectable to be selfish and greedy. Reagan made it respectable to be a warmonger. In short Reagan made it respectable to indulge in sin as to your public actions. We still live in Ronald Reagans dictatorship of the national soul. My entire adult life has been spent in utter disgust of the coarseness and cruelty of our national discourse. My entire adult life has been spent in the fruitless hope that this national nightmare might end. And I am always disappointed. The middle class being strangled to death? It is the result of Reagan's ideas, and they still prevail. Endless, fruitless, war? Reagan paved the way with his belligerence. After the Masters of the Universe nearly tanked Western Civilization in 2008, I thought people would finally wake up and smell the coffee. We finally elected a Democratic President without the support of the South. Finally, I thought, we have finally shrugged off the poisonous legacy of Ronald Reagan. No such luck. The hatred and ignorance is still with us, only stronger and harder than before. Fox News, Ben Carson, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Scott Walker, Rick Scott. and many more. They are all the bastard children of Ronald Reagan. All they do is follow Reagan's ideas to their viscous and poisonous extremes. They would not exist without Ronald Reagan. Uncle Ron's superficial charm is long gone. The meanness and hatred is still with us. And millions of white conservatives proudly sprew out his hatred, pleased as punched with themselves, blissfully unaware of the shriveling of their immortal souls.
How can this be so? One of the reasons is that liberals are blissfully unaware of Reagan's total triumph. It is often said that today society is the result of a deal between liberals and conservatives. Liberals got the culture while letting conservatives run the economy. But as David Sirota explains in his book Back To Our Future, the liberals never got the culture either. The ideas of the Reagan Decade, the 1980's, still have a stranglehold on our soul. This is because of the reinforcements of pop culture. The so called hippies of the 60's have been totally demonized by characters such as Forrest Gump and Michael J. Fox's Alex Keaton in Family Ties. War has been glamorized by movies like First Blood, Top Gun, Red Dawn and too many others. Pop Culture has totally glamorized the myth of the Lone Hero against the Evil, Stupid Bureaucrat. Finally we accept black people only if they no longer act black. Bill Cosby's Cliff Huxtable. Oprah Winfrey. Michael Jordan was able to bleach himself in white people's eyes. LeBron James has not. Barack Obama thought he bleached himself enough to be accepted by whites. But it turned out that Reagan's America still thinks he's a nigger. So much for "hope" and "change". Reagan's America never changes. David Sirota is an expert an pop culture as only a child of the 80's is. Read his book. You will be both greatly entertained and greatly angered. Freaking Ronald Reagan never dies.
I write this four days after the ISIS terrorist attacks on France. But I don't worry about ISIS destroying America. I'm afraid Ronald Reagan has already managed it.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
The Pentagon's Shocking Record of Failure
Now that the horror of the ISIS attacks is sinking in, the spastic little children in the GOP and the media are demanding "Do Something!!!". The fact that these people don't have the slightest idea about what to do does not stop them from screaming. All they want is to send the US Military out to kill people and blow things up. Doesn't matter what or where as long as it's Muslim. It is horribly and sadly predictable how this is all going to play out. First, wise people asking for restraint will be mocked as wimpy, unpatriotic appeasers. Then to appease these babies, the US will bomb something or invade something Islamic. This will accomplish nothing except help ISIS recruit more terrorists, kill innocent people, and finally get American soldiers killed. Oh yes, and give people like Marco Rubio a cheap bounce in the polls. When the body bags start coming home, General Marco will nowhere be found. And when the next terrorist attack happens, liberals will be blamed. Or hippies. Or Peaceniks. Or Jane Fonda. Or anyone except the assholes who demanded war. Who will be screaming, once again...do something!!!......
Any shrink can tell you a working definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again even if it doesn't work. By that definition, the United States of America is insane. We keep asking the Pentagon to get US out of these messes. And it has been proven that the Pentagon is only good at two things 1) Blowing things up 2) Fucking up.
Why hasn't it been reported that, since the end of World War II whenever the enemy decides not to cave in and, you know. actually fire back, the Pentagon loses the war? Korea was a tie once the Chinese got involved. Vietnam was a disaster. In this century both Iraq and Afghanistan were bloody, pointless slogs. The Marines were blown out of Beirut in the 80's when Reagan decided to Do Something about Libyan terrorism. The only time the Pentagon wins is if the enemy is so weak it cant resist (Grenada, Panama), can be subdued by just bombing (the Balkans) , or when the enemy essentially leaves the battlefield (the first Gulf War). All the rest have been defeats of the United States. This despite the fact that one half of the world military expenditures are borne by the United States. This despite the fact that the US has the world's only functioning blue water navy. This despite the fact that the US spends so much on national defense that nobody can tell exactly how much is being spent! I guess it would be unpatriotic to subject the Pentagon, to, you know, an audit. Finally, this despite the fact that the average American soldier nowadays is of consistently high quality. ( they are not "troops" they are soldiers). So we blame our defeats on Jane Fonda. Or that we didn't let MacArthur cross the Yalu or let John Rambo win the war in Vietnam. Or we just didn't have enough troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Or they didn't give us enough time. Hey, if they would only give us 20 years, we could complete our "nation building" , whatever the hell that is. Its always the fault of someone else. Never because of the possibility that the generals, the desk jockeys, and the politicians might be incompetent. Oh no!
Maybe I'm being too hard on the Pentagon. After all, they work for a public that has essentially abdicated the responsibilities of citizenship and national defense. The volunteer army lets us dump all the responsibility of our safety on a small strata of people who are overstressed due to the demands made on them. Many in the military did not want to follow up on Bush's harebrained scheme in Iraq. What is sadly apparent is that a combination of an ignorant public, mindless politicians, and a Pentagon so bloated that it cannot get out of its own way will only get people killed while doing little to stop the evil of ISIS.
Before we start another war, maybe we can demand that Saudi Arabia and other petro-dictatorships stop funding terrorists just to save their own corrupt skins. Remember when Jimmy Carter was laughed out of the White House when he called the energy crisis "the moral equivalent of war?" Well it is war when the money we pay for gas winds up in the hands of ISIS thanks to our "allies". We could cut down our dependence on foreign oil, leaving the sheiks no option but to drink it. Finally, those of us who call ourselves "Christians", followers of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace. can stand in the forefront, demanding accountability from those who would get us in another pointless war.
Any shrink can tell you a working definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again even if it doesn't work. By that definition, the United States of America is insane. We keep asking the Pentagon to get US out of these messes. And it has been proven that the Pentagon is only good at two things 1) Blowing things up 2) Fucking up.
Why hasn't it been reported that, since the end of World War II whenever the enemy decides not to cave in and, you know. actually fire back, the Pentagon loses the war? Korea was a tie once the Chinese got involved. Vietnam was a disaster. In this century both Iraq and Afghanistan were bloody, pointless slogs. The Marines were blown out of Beirut in the 80's when Reagan decided to Do Something about Libyan terrorism. The only time the Pentagon wins is if the enemy is so weak it cant resist (Grenada, Panama), can be subdued by just bombing (the Balkans) , or when the enemy essentially leaves the battlefield (the first Gulf War). All the rest have been defeats of the United States. This despite the fact that one half of the world military expenditures are borne by the United States. This despite the fact that the US has the world's only functioning blue water navy. This despite the fact that the US spends so much on national defense that nobody can tell exactly how much is being spent! I guess it would be unpatriotic to subject the Pentagon, to, you know, an audit. Finally, this despite the fact that the average American soldier nowadays is of consistently high quality. ( they are not "troops" they are soldiers). So we blame our defeats on Jane Fonda. Or that we didn't let MacArthur cross the Yalu or let John Rambo win the war in Vietnam. Or we just didn't have enough troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Or they didn't give us enough time. Hey, if they would only give us 20 years, we could complete our "nation building" , whatever the hell that is. Its always the fault of someone else. Never because of the possibility that the generals, the desk jockeys, and the politicians might be incompetent. Oh no!
Maybe I'm being too hard on the Pentagon. After all, they work for a public that has essentially abdicated the responsibilities of citizenship and national defense. The volunteer army lets us dump all the responsibility of our safety on a small strata of people who are overstressed due to the demands made on them. Many in the military did not want to follow up on Bush's harebrained scheme in Iraq. What is sadly apparent is that a combination of an ignorant public, mindless politicians, and a Pentagon so bloated that it cannot get out of its own way will only get people killed while doing little to stop the evil of ISIS.
Before we start another war, maybe we can demand that Saudi Arabia and other petro-dictatorships stop funding terrorists just to save their own corrupt skins. Remember when Jimmy Carter was laughed out of the White House when he called the energy crisis "the moral equivalent of war?" Well it is war when the money we pay for gas winds up in the hands of ISIS thanks to our "allies". We could cut down our dependence on foreign oil, leaving the sheiks no option but to drink it. Finally, those of us who call ourselves "Christians", followers of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace. can stand in the forefront, demanding accountability from those who would get us in another pointless war.
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