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I am rather dismayed by the volume of celebratory posts on my friend's page.
It's okay to get excited about politics, but this election is NOT on par with the American Revolution, the Emancipation Proclamation, or Women's Suffrage. So much hatred and vitriol has been spewed at the GOP (a good deal of it deserved) that my screen is dripping.
The real problem with this is that many of these young voters think something has been accomplished. The truth is, you've just exchanged one group of sphincters for another. Nancy Pelosi and everyone else doing the Grand Donkey Trot are not the cure for anything. Period.
We're all just watching the shadows of an exclusive game, being played by an exclusive little club of puppet masters whose background, family wealth, educational opportunities, wardrobe, and elitist snobbery is indistinguishable from the other. It's just like at the end of Animal Farm, when the people and the pigs look exactly alike.
The system as it stands now has become a cheering section with roughly the same intellectual stimulation as a high school pep rally. The only distinction between the sides is which group of lies you identify with. It might as well be the Sharks and the Jets -- yet it's been boiled down to the White Male Racist Vagina-hating Bible-thumping Silver Spoon Country-clubbers versus the America-hating Freeloading Pacifist Anal-sex-training-in-the-classroom Commie Fetus-killers.
And the sphincters in power just laugh at all the energy you spend pretending like you matter -- pretending like there is really something at stake.
I've often stated that I am a "lowercase l" libertarian. Every time I do, some armchair philosopher starts railing on me about all the crap I must automatically buy into, using the same all-or-nothing caricatures I've outlined above.
I'm a small government guy for two big reasons: I do believe the free market does more things better than a planned economy, and I REALLY get off on the notion that reducing the power and scope of government pisses off the partisan puppet-masters that are pulling the strings. People like Ralph Reed and Al Sharpton, who know just what notes to play to make the rats follow. People like Rove and Mehlman, who do all manner of evil to serve the game, and people like Soros and Dean, who succeeded in spite of their bumbling toward the same end.
I'm disappointed that so many believe "real issues" will be addressed.
I'm disappointed that the vast majority of voters could write the sum total of their original political musings on a bumper sticker, and still leave plenty of room for a bootleg Calvin pissing on something.
I'm disappointed that from here on out, every election will be marked with half of the country popping boners because it's Morning in America, and half are popping Prozac because they don't know what hemlock looks like.
It's okay to get excited about politics, but this election is NOT on par with the American Revolution, the Emancipation Proclamation, or Women's Suffrage. So much hatred and vitriol has been spewed at the GOP (a good deal of it deserved) that my screen is dripping.
The real problem with this is that many of these young voters think something has been accomplished. The truth is, you've just exchanged one group of sphincters for another. Nancy Pelosi and everyone else doing the Grand Donkey Trot are not the cure for anything. Period.
We're all just watching the shadows of an exclusive game, being played by an exclusive little club of puppet masters whose background, family wealth, educational opportunities, wardrobe, and elitist snobbery is indistinguishable from the other. It's just like at the end of Animal Farm, when the people and the pigs look exactly alike.
The system as it stands now has become a cheering section with roughly the same intellectual stimulation as a high school pep rally. The only distinction between the sides is which group of lies you identify with. It might as well be the Sharks and the Jets -- yet it's been boiled down to the White Male Racist Vagina-hating Bible-thumping Silver Spoon Country-clubbers versus the America-hating Freeloading Pacifist Anal-sex-training-in-the-classroom Commie Fetus-killers.
And the sphincters in power just laugh at all the energy you spend pretending like you matter -- pretending like there is really something at stake.
I've often stated that I am a "lowercase l" libertarian. Every time I do, some armchair philosopher starts railing on me about all the crap I must automatically buy into, using the same all-or-nothing caricatures I've outlined above.
I'm a small government guy for two big reasons: I do believe the free market does more things better than a planned economy, and I REALLY get off on the notion that reducing the power and scope of government pisses off the partisan puppet-masters that are pulling the strings. People like Ralph Reed and Al Sharpton, who know just what notes to play to make the rats follow. People like Rove and Mehlman, who do all manner of evil to serve the game, and people like Soros and Dean, who succeeded in spite of their bumbling toward the same end.
I'm disappointed that so many believe "real issues" will be addressed.
I'm disappointed that the vast majority of voters could write the sum total of their original political musings on a bumper sticker, and still leave plenty of room for a bootleg Calvin pissing on something.
I'm disappointed that from here on out, every election will be marked with half of the country popping boners because it's Morning in America, and half are popping Prozac because they don't know what hemlock looks like.