Not a day goes by when I don't chuckle mirthlessly about the fact that the world's sole remaining superpower is populated by a bunch of raving lunatics. It's like some kind of cosmic joke.
I used to think the same thing. Ultimately, though, the raving lunatics that are in power have a license to act that way because they were elected. Admittedly, they were elected on a 51% share of a 40-something% turnout, but seriously! If, having seen what the current administration is capable of, the electorate can't be trusted to kick them out of office, they're all equally culpable in my eyes.
On more generous days, I make an exception in this blanket condemnation for the roughly 20% of the population that voted for Kerry.
Incidentally - I just went and checked out your journal and found it to be very entertaining indeed! One day, when I start using my own journal "properly" I might friend* you, if that's Ok?
*I believe the word "friend" is commonly used as a verb in these parts.
On second thoughts, I agree. They should all burn in hell. Given the uncanny similarity of the USA's current image to my own interpretation of the latter (i.e. lots of fat, ugly, stupid people shouting in American accents) and the US government's heroic efforts to raise the global temperature to levels that would have Satan reaching for a nice glass of Pimm's, you never know - they might just take care of that all by themselves...
Thank you for the nice comment. You may "friend" at will!
Ok. We all know that yanks are barking mad, but the populace are just following a doctrine set by succesive generations of fuckwits in charge. Just as people in nazi germany were following a doctrine, which unfortunately leads to people thinking germans are morally flawed, or drawn towards totalitarianism, which of course is bollocks.
There's some truth in that - the Bush administration has pretty shamelessly milked 9/11 for all it's worth, using it to stave off domestic criticism, excuse abuses of power and build support for American exceptionalism - but I'm not convinced it's the right way to understand the US. Look at the last election: early reports of a high turn-out stoked hopes that the Democrats had successfully got the yout' out to vote. But it turned out that the Republicans had mobilised their own voters even more effectively - and they did it by getting social issues onto the ballot papers. Republican voters came to the polls because they wanted to vote down gay marriage amendments
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ok first, the election was a fraud, gore won. 2nd there is always a very tiny percentage of americans who are 'floating voters' the electoral college system is a joke. as is a two party system, love the first amendment all that and the congress, supreme court etc, but the actual elections are a joke.
the media whips up shit, the people lap it up. its the same everywhere
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On more generous days, I make an exception in this blanket condemnation for the roughly 20% of the population that voted for Kerry.
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*I believe the word "friend" is commonly used as a verb in these parts.
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Thank you for the nice comment. You may "friend" at will!
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the media whips up shit, the people lap it up. its the same everywhere
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