Discothèque
I know I will catch a lot of hell for this, from people who like to maintain the optimism that this election will put a non-Neo-con in office, but I have to get it off my chest.
It is about time we face up to the fact that this country will never again be run by progressives. Everyone, regardless of party, is fed up with the past 8 years; the economy, the housing market, the war, and the list goes on. Yet they refuse to admit that this is directly correlated to who has been in power.
The fact that there is even a question of electing another neo-con, let alone that he is leading in the polls, just goes to show you how pointless the American political system has become.
Truthfully, I don’t think most conservatives even want this man in power: they’ve been duped. They have a legitimate right to worry about terrorism, abortion, and gay marriage, but these viewpoints have been co-opted by a party who could give a shit about them. What the Republicans’ real platform is is ‘fuck the poor’. Plain and simple.
The genius of their strategy is to do lip service to the issues people care passionately about, like family values, and protecting us from terror, so the very people who the Republicans’ policies are designed to exploit are their biggest voters.
The saddest thing is that they have somehow even managed to convince us that they are the party of patriotism. I don’t know how they pulled it off, but they did. Maybe it was by repeating the lie that progressives are unpatriotic loud enough and often enough that it became truth. I don’t know. But as long as they have a trademark on Patriotism™, there is no way you can resist them without allying yourself with Terrorists™, Muslim Fundamentalists™, the Axis of Evil™, Freedom Haters™, Mahmud Ahmedinejad™, and all of the other threats to the very existence of America™.
To quote Jack White, who was undoubtedly singing to Republicans on the topic of America:
“You’ve got her in your pocket
And there’s no way out now
Put it in the safe and lock it
’cause it’s at home sweet home”
-e