Let's say it's because the truth hurts, but I really hate to be taken
for stupid by people who don't know me from Adam. I would at least
prefer to be given the opportunity to say or do something to prove it.
So
they tried to take me for a fool last night. When my Caller ID screen
flashed "Opinion Poll" I was suspicious. It didn't say something like
Zogby or any name I would recognize, so I paused the TV and picked it up
hoping to have an opportunity to express my displeasure at the
illegally late hour. I soon detected that "David" from the "polling
company" was actually a computer. Didn't take any Holmesian deduction
really. If the Voice on the phone does not stumble or pause at my
assertions as to his oedipal relationships it's likely that old Dave is a
new Dell.
But I went along, hoping to have my shot,
answering that yes, I was going to vote, yes I was certain I was going
to vote, am a registered Democrat and no I wasn't going to risk divine
retribution by voting for some tin horn torturer like Allen "deport the
commies" West, but noticing that the questions all compared the
Republican Party with the "Democrat" Party, I began to lose patience.
You
probably aren't old enough to remember how easy it was to determine
political polarity by noting how the speaker pronounced Vietnam. It
rhymed with Pete Ham if you were for the glorious crusade to protect
American freedom. Curiously, the same dialect discrimination obtained
with our invasion of Iraq. If it was Eye-wrack, you were for it. But
these chuckleheads can't bring themselves to acknowledge the Democratic
Party by saying it right and they're too smugly stupid to notice that I
might notice. They always and steadfastly and in the face of cannon
fire, call it the 'Democrat' Party.
But I digress.
One might expect a careless listener of some intelligence to miss this
point, but when Digital Dave asked whether my preference might lie with
the Republican plan to create jobs, build prosperity and bring on a new
dawn of American world domination in Jesus' name amen, by getting rid of
crippling business regulation and those unnecessarily Marxist corporate
taxes --- or whether I might somehow, perhaps accidentally, make the
thoughtless mistake of destroying the fabric of the space-time
continuum by letting the top bracket rise to the point where Ronald
Reagan shocked us by lowering it -- and voting for the Democrat agenda?
So would you vote for peace and prosperity or for disaster?
Somewhere
in a primary school class where they teach basic reasoning skills; (
they do do that, don't they?) or somewhere in the beginning pages of Logic
for Dummies, there must be mention of forced choice questions. No, I
don't have advanced degrees and my Greek doesn't exist. My first grade
teacher thought I was not first grade material and I only had three
years of calculus in College, but really. If this reeks of stupid even to
me, is this the best these bozos can do?
Somewhere in
Hell, just south of the place reserved for cannibals and mass murderers
there's a parking spot with a nice tin sign that reads: THIS SPOT
RESERVED FOR THE TREASONOUS BASTARDS AT ELKHURST COMMUNICATIONS.
PS:
I posted this to Human Voices last week and although I sent an extremely and obnoxiously aggressive e-mail and a complaint to the FCC, they keep calling me and calling me and of course they'll keep doing it and no government agency will ever do anything to stop the lies or the intrusion. The bastards.
"Somewhere in a primary school class where they teach basic reasoning skills; ( they do do that, don't they?)"
ReplyDeleteI don't think so.
I guess that would be dangerous.
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