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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Hallelujah, I Have Seen The Light!!

As Sam Cooke sang so well, "It's been a long time comin' but a change is gonna come." It's taken me years of heartache, toil, and sweat but I've finally figured it out. I have discovered the grail of grails, the treasure of treasures....I know the secret. What is it?

I finally have figured out why conservatives win and liberals lose.

Actually, before we get to that, I need to amend some of my previous posts. When I wrote that "conservatives" do this or "conservatives" do that, I was way off base. And, really, I was overgeneralizing, falling neatly into Karl Rove's plan of divide and conquer. I know many conservatives and, to be truly fair, it was really not them I was laying into with my literary scythe. To be honest, I feel a great deal of regret at laying into a group of people that I have actually developed quite a bit of respect for over the last few months. Real conservatives stand for good things , many of which I agree with, like states rights, less taxes, or less government. It was unfair of me to lump so many people into a category that is really only suited for a specific type of conservative. The fake conservative.

The Bushie.

Yes, we have all heard much talk of late as to who is a "loyal Bushie" and who is not. In fact, several former US attorneys (all REPUBLICANS) have found out, through the loss of their jobs, that they are not good enough conservatives. Bushies are the best. They are the left hand of God, after all, and can pretty much do no wrong. In fact, I think I have heard them say that, from now on, God has decided to speak directly through them and will tell us what is right and what is wrong....who is good and who is evil. Why do they get to do this? Because they know how to win. How? Because they know that they're opponents are weak little pieces of shit. They know how to beat them every time.

It all comes down to my favorite line in the movie Dogma (1997, d: Kevin Smith). Some of the characters are speaking of Jesus and how what he was really all about was good ideas, not beliefs. One can change an idea but one can't change a belief. Bushies are all about belief. In fact, that's all they have because they certainly don't have anything close to the truth. And they are fucking great at sticking to that belief, no matter how many lives it costs. Someone once wrote on this blog:

It is not at all surprising that Bushies choose to believe what they want, and ignore the facts. This is the basis of their core beliefs: do not believe what your eyes tell you, believe what you are told to believe. If you doubt, you are damned.They choose to portray this as a strength, but it is in reality a weakness. Any person who believes "If I didn't believe in X: 1) My entire world would collapse, 2) Life would not be worth living, 3) I would kill myself" is in serious denial about their own strength of character.

This is a pearl of wisdom wrapped in gold. Y'see folks, liberals will never win against this mountain of titanium. Never. I offer as evidence...oh...any debate between a liberal and a Bushie. They start off fairly normal and as soon as the liberal begins to bring up unpleasant facts, the Bushie will then say something along the lines of "Gee, why are you so angry?" The liberal will then pause and reflect because that is what liberals do: they QUESTION THEMSELVES. There is another word for this. It's called thinking.

The wily Bushie senses this moment of self actualization (perceived as weakness by said Bushie, who has a belief system akin to a third grader, but in reality signifies someone who actually wants to evolve past the uni brow/knuckle dragging phase) and then attacks its prey. The liberal doesn't know what to do. He/She begins to backtrack...wonder if they are being too harsh (a-ha! compassion, something else completely absent from a Bushie's persona)...and then they roll over, stick their asses up in the air, and let ol Bushie fuck away like there's no tomorrow. They are effectively done...in more ways than one.

Don't believe me? Why don't we take a look at what these sorry sacks of shit (pictured at left) did in the last week? Ignoring the reason why they were actually elected in November of 2006, they rolled over for ol Bushie and let him continue his charade in Iraq so they could all go on summer break. They gave him his blood money until September when, after a few dozen more troop deaths and probably hundreds of civilian deaths, they can reconvene better rested. Yipee!



Just to recap and make sure you are still with me, the Democrats decided that the best course of action was to listen to a group of men who have said:

"Mission Accomplished"

"The Insurgency is in it's last throes"

"Anyone who says there will be sectarian violence in Iraq is wrong. And terribly naive."

In other words, we are being told by the people we elected in the midterms that even though the Bushies have been wrong about everything that has come out of their mouths, we're gonna give 'em one last chance. Super! So, my question at this point is, who is the bigger group of fucking morons? More and more these days, I have slowly begun to accept the fact that the reason why President Bush has won all the time is because he has had help from the other side. At first, I thought they were just weak. Then I thought they were stupid. Now I think they sense an opportunity to use Bush's unpopularity to gain power in 2008. In other words, they are doing they same thing that Bush is doing or has done: they are letting people die for political and financial gain. How are they getting away with this?

The population of this country has become conditioned to accept information only in easy to swallow caplets (aka sound bites). They don't have time for questioning. They want a simple answer, one that requires little thought, and surprise surprise...along comes Bushie with that answer. And, hey, let's all point at the weirdo who is a sittin' there thinkin' all the dad gum time...what a loser! Right?

Keep it simple, stupid...isn't that the phrase we hear everyday?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Y'know, I haven't really thought of it this way. For most of my life, I really don't remember being all that ticked off at conservatives. I disagreed with them, sure, but never like it has been in the last six years.

Belief is a powerful thing. And when it is belief based on complete and utter fiction, it's scary.

Anonymous said...

Aside from the distasteful language, I agree with you. It's hard to defend a group of people who seem to be acting out of a sense of capitaliziing on someone else's misfortunes. Maybe Barack Obama will change all that, if he isn't killed first.

Anonymous said...

Does the left ever lose on the issues or do they really just think too much?

Anonymous said...

Has anyone listened to the new Feist album? Let's elect Feist for presidet.

Anonymous said...

The reason the Dems rolled over here (and I am as mad as you, rest assurred), is because of the slimness of thier majority. They didn't have the votes to pull off the override.

Anonymous said...

This post is brilliant (insight) and hilarious (insight.) I think everyone
knows that the Republicans and Democrats (I stress political leadership, not
the people who think or the sheep..) and as with everything, it's not
everyone, but pretty much everyone in the leadership, are basically one and
the same. But why be just one person or thing mocked and hated? When you
can be two and save your (other) ass all the time? Playing good cop bad cop
& working towards the same psychopathic and greed-enhanced goals. In an
ultra-corrupting, taxing system (not for the billion dollar corps, who are
on state welfare paid for by everyone else) which is polarizing, criminal &
undemocratic, except to those who have sold their senses skimming
commissions from arms deals (destroying hundreds of thousands of people and
planet acres) & places to make those same wmds in their home states, making
money from arming israel, egypt, Jordan (i.e. ARMING the most volatile &
explosive region on earth, in which OUR young & clueless soldiers are being
KILLED daily) making money from the energy giants (who buy corrupt leaders
in once self-sustaining countries and f-up local economies,) investment
banks (whom the government never fails to bail, especially after billion
dollar heists with public savings) and any one of the top twenty corp donors
of tweedle dee & dum. Has anyone read what the Pentagon comptroller
reported recently? That more than half the money which has been poured into
Iraq can not be accounted for? Literally planeloads of suitcase loads of
our tax dollars are missing... I wonder why? And we continue to pay for the
impoverishment of our own society and support the killing of innocent
others, wondering why they then blow themselves up, or rally to the cries of
Death to America? This is not an anarchistic suggestion, just a logical
one, but why don't we dump the losers and rule ourselves (first, as Mark put
it, by THINKING) in a NEW (or remodeled) and just paradigm, that actually
serves the everyday people: rich poor or inbetween.

johnwaxey said...

The system can not be changed without a reversion to a 19th century lifestyle (and very few people are going to opt for this!). The corporations run everything, or rather, we have entrusted in them our gods-given right to our own freedom. They own the political candidates, they bring warmth into our house, put food on our tables, make our clothes, allow us to communicate, they tell us what we like and need, etc., etc. We no longer know the difference between being free and the illusion of being free.

The sad thing is that we have done it to ourselves. We have all been offered the best educations in the history of the planet, the easiest ways to receive information and the greater segment of our society has chosen to follow the easiest path...blind belief. Belief that the people who we put in charge are interested in looking out for our interests rather than their own. Belief that people who are largely far and away more wealthy than the largest portion of the population can actually relate to and understand the life of a middle or lower class citizen. When do you suppose was the last time that any of the senators or congress-people had to worry about paying all of their utility bills in any single month?

I find it less and less plausible to see a government for the people, by the people. I see the heads of major corporations dictating foreign and domestic policy. Don't get me wrong..there are far worse places on earth to live...I just find the hypocrisy and the lying hard to juxtapose with the sentiment behind unquestioning and unwavering flag-waving.

If you want even a semblance of real freedom, then consider the life of Ma and Pa, Laura and Mary Engles in the Big Woods or on the prairie. We have come a long way from making our own clothes, tools, houses, and food and sadly we sold our own freedom for the what we thought was the easy life. But like all things...there is a price tag...it turns out there ain't no free lunch.