Perhaps you'll recall my post entitled Damn the Lies
the other day about the latest act of treason from the Republican Lie
Machine, or Fox news as it's sometimes called. It was about a totally
fictitious story warning us about how if "Obama gets his way" voting
rights of military personnel would be restricted in Ohio. I suppose that
adherents to the Obamahate faith accept unquestioningly that the POTUS
writes election laws unconstitutionally in the State of Ohio. I suppose
Fox Folk are actually stupid enough, or at least so disgustingly
desperate enough to legitimize their hatred of our uppity president
that they will believe anything without question and guard the lies with
their miserable lives. But needless to say, the most polite thing an
honest observer can say about Fox Fraudster Shannon Bream is that it's a
filthy, contemptible lie worthy of tar and feathers.
But who cares? This isn't actually reality you know, it's a kind
of fantasy amusement park for deranged sociopaths and other borderline
personalities with room temperature IQs and it isn't nearly possible
for even a well funded and staffed effort to counter the lies or
disseminate the facts. It's not just that there isn't enough money
outside of the insurgency, it's also that believing the lies is a mighty
fortress of faith. If you don't like the Flavor Aid, why then, you're a Liberal and that's that.
So, sure "that Obama" hates soldiers or "warriors" or
"warfighters" as the anger merchants like to call any GI who ever peeled
a potato. It's all just another passion play. So why get angry about
the latest round of TV adds, paid for by unidentified "concerned
citizens" who actually are the Koch's Folks or Rupert's Raiders which
insist in full snark mode that "that Obama" has removed the Work for
Welfare system put into place by that other Commie, that most far left
Liberal ever, not the real president; that one-term-at-most Bill
Clinton.
Do I have to tell you it ain't true? Probably not if you've read this far. Should I mention that not only is it not true, even in part, but that what the White House is trying to accomplish with further Welfare reform is to accede to the long time requests of Republican Governors to allow them the flexibility to tailor their State's programs to their needs?
Perhaps
it's galling to the Fascists and Bigots and Brown Shirts masquerading
as Conservatives that, as it was with Bill Clinton, the man they tried
to portray as another Trotsky was actually more conservative than they
were in some respects and no further to the Left than the center. It's
nearly as galling to me that a mob of irate patriots doesn't put these
lying bastards, these unscrupulous despoilers of liberty, Truth,
Justice, Democracy and Decency in a pillory and piss in their faces.
What they have going for them is something old Freddie Nietzsche analyzed long ago: the simple fact that humans (ahem -- as opposed to DINOSAURS) are much more interested in banding together and firming up hierarchies than they are in anything else: "truth" is just one strategy in achieving those imperatives. Romney's entire campaign is just one wretched, hollow distortion after another, and it's clear that it doesn't bother Republicans at all. If anything, they're upset with him because the distortions aren't outrageous enough for their taste.
ReplyDeleteWhen I suggested the pillory and pissing in their faces, I quite meant it. Are we the worst country in the world now? Perhaps the worst country that ever was? I wouldn't have to do a lot of invention or embellishment of the facts to make a case for it.
ReplyDeleteWell, I don't know about worst -- but what I find distressing is the increasingly obvious and massive Republican bid PREEMPTIVELY TO STEAL THE 2012 ELECTION, and to do it openly, by means of the democratic process itself and with the help of the judicial branch. We haven't seen this kind of shit since Jim Crow.
ReplyDeleteFrankly, if the worst happens and Romney wins in a manner that makes it obvious that the win was due to disenfranchisement -- as in millions showing up to vote and being turned out on their ear -- I don't see how I or any decent citizen could ever respect this country again or call it anything but a dictatorship, an oligarchy, a plutocracy, or any other odious term you please. It certainly would not deserve to be called a democratic-spirited republic.
I haven't heard Romney or Ryan utter a word about the disenfranchisement efforts -- I'd really like to know how they feel about all these activities by others clearly aimed to place them in power by illegitimate means. My guess is that they don't care half an unsatisfying dump how illegitimate their potential victory might be, so long as it's a victory. Still, I'd like to hear them deny it, in the hope that I'm wrong.
The GOP know they have no chance of winning fair and square because they have a ridiculously shitty, empty-suited, tax-return-hoarding candidate even THEY can't stand opposing a dynamic, intelligent, energetic Democratic incumbent who is broadly liked, at least by most people who aren't impossibly high on tea-hate and old-guard racism.
Unless they can keep millions of Democrats home by fraudulent, treacherous means, they're cooked on election day, and the bastards are making the attempt without batting an eyelash. It's their last, worst hope, and so far, I think they're looking increasingly likely to get away with it.
Time is running short -- what's the solution? Will the Justice Dept. step into each relevant state and uphold the Voting Rights Act by ensuring that the conditions for voting are tolerably equal? On verra....
The solution? Since I'm post-rational at the moment, I'll say nothing, but without some method of exposing the Niagara of lies pouring from the Media all day and all night, there is no hope. And they've only begun.
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ReplyDelete"Pissing in their faces" is exactly what I have in mind. Since I cannot reach out and smack the GOP candidates in person, I have no hesitation in hurling tirades at their supporters. Why?
Because everything I believe in is under threat. Medicare, free and fair elections, women's right to chose, and more. While the media focuses on Ryan's budget plan and sensationalized news accounts of low-road polemics, journalists have been remiss in pointing out that Ryan is also the author of a federal "personhood" bill that would outlaw all forms of abortion and contraception (including IUDs), and a mandatory "rape-by-government" ultrasound sound bill. What next? A Putin-style persecution of dissenters? The GOP has morphed itself into a neofascist party.
Yesterday, an appliance salesman sneaked a dig at Obama. Immediately I told him how offended I was, that a retail store is an inappropriate venue for partisan politics. Thereupon, I reported his conduct to the store manager and swore I would never shop there again. Yes, piss in their faces! Boycott their businesses. Let them know there is a price for partisan disrespect. And fuck-em every way you can.