Mon 8 Sep 2008
To quote the Kwisatz Haderach, “Fear Is The Mind-Killer.”
And I must admit, I fear a McCain/Palin administration and admittedly, I fear a Palin administration even more. If McCain is a maverick, Palin is pure chaos.
Why am I so fearful? Where do I even start? First off, I am afraid the American public is still horrifically stupid. They voted for Bush in vast numbers TWICE, plus they gave him swollen approval ratings when it was obvious there was no basis for it. Are these Bush fans thinking, “third time is the charm?” These people are low-information voters and have consisantly voted against their best economic interests time and time again. They just can’t seem to get enough of failure, torment and pain. It is quite remarkable.
For some unknown reason, these voters do not understand the danger of our deficit, national debt and the debt hole. They do not understand that buying from Walmart puts Americans out of work. They seem to have forgotten that American families used to only need one breadwinner – now it takes two spouses and a pile of credit cards to make ends meet. There was a time in Amercia where we took pride in our national parks. My great grandparents used to think very highly of how we as Americans set aside the Great Smokey Mountains, the Petrified Forest, Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon. I have ancestors that cut the route for the Blue Ridge Parkway. But now the mantra is “drill baby, drill.” My parents, grandparents and great-grandparents used to always think about saving and conserving. They all grew up in hard times in the rough patches of West Virginia. “Why buy a new shovel when you can fix the one you have?” was a saying of Andrew Keys, my great-grandfather who spent a lifetime coal mining and keeping a farm near Spanishburg, West Virginia.
The Republicans seem to have forgotten how to work together. It is there way and they will advance their position with no outside help. That is a very divisive way of thinking. As some of you may know, I run a soldier support charity, Books For Soldiers. During Katrina, I worked with Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan to set-up a relief network for residents of the Gulf Coast. We set out to deliver food, medicine and clothing to those who were affected by the hurricane. When some of the Books For Soldiers volunteers figured out that Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan were helping out, they refused to help Americans in need because, and I quote from their emails, “because the medicine might be delivered by Democrats.”
No shit.
So I fear. I fear that half of this nation will continue to not use their brains and vote for McCain / Palin and we will finally lose America.
Forever.
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September 8th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
I am with you on this one. If McCain/Palin win then America really is dead.
Any way we can have the UN come in and make sure the elections are fair? – I’m being serious.
September 8th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Silly Stormbear…
America has already been lost. This is the culmination of events and actions taken by select people right after WWII. It has only gotten worse since those days, as back then they were only small, unseen ripples in the water.
Unfortunalty, the damage has already been done, and by this point it is completely irrepariable unless some drasitc measures are taken.
It’s like Huey Long said: “If fascism ever comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag”
That has already happened my friend and the American public bought it hook line and sinker. They can’t (or, rather won’t) see past their little bubble of reality and look at the big picture. They would rather sit in front of their 50 foot wide screen HD TV than do anything that requires any real thought.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
AnimeFreak40K, my hope is returning now that people are waking up. Yes, there are many who would prefer to sit in front of the 50 foot wide teevee’s, however, there are others who are turning it off and coming outside for the fresh air.
September 9th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Palin is a Hail Mary pass to the Christofascists, whom McCain needs so desperately to win. She’ll give Biden the dickens during the debate, but thaw and rot shortly before the election.
September 9th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Oh, I do agree that folks are starting to wake up, turn off the idiot-boxes and actually start paying attention to what is going on in their lives.
And you know what? We have the Internet to thank for that. Why? Because information spreads like a virus-infested wildfire on steroids (or some other anology for something that spreads very quickly). Even if the information itself is invalid for whatever reason, there is so much of it that the truth is mixed in there somewhere. What is more, is that with so many sources of information, people are also starting to take bits and pieces of all of it and think for themselves.
*gasp* scarey concept I know…given the way some of the people in charge have been running things.
September 10th, 2008 at 1:35 am
I actually hit a bit of “information” overload and looked up McCain’s actual voting record.
Yeah, that may have been a mistake.
I found some interesting things that he voted against and now I have been up wayyyyy past my bedtime putting my blog entry together and posting it.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:31 am
I share your fears. I’ve witnessed the slitting one’s own throat voting behavior too many times to hope it won’t happen again this year.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Give me a break, the fact that people leave there kids to be raised by the teachers unions. Choice on abortion but not schools, tolorance for only those who share our views? I am way past this moody bulllshit, but Obamma is bought and paid for, as all of them are. McCain included, but the one person that is not, gets the shit kicked out of her here? I beleive in abortion and the death penalty. Do you
September 11th, 2008 at 3:07 am
LOL!
The more I look at Palin, the more puzzled I get. All right, nominating a woman is sort of cool. And she has an interesting life story, and a good manner. But she’s Nehemiah Scudder in a dress. And, why does anyone care? We’ve gone from “the audacity of hope” to “the cult of personality”. WtF?