A plurality of Americans seem to think Obama is the worst president since World War II. I suspect a similar plurality couldn't tell you the combatants in that war or name the presidents we've had during or since, but according to a Quinnipiac poll he's the worst and we'd have been better off with Romney.
The horror.
Yes, he has no leadership qualities because the Republicans have had a stranglehold on the Government and have effectively opposed every appointment, ever action and have mobilized the worlds largest and most effective lie machine in human history to undo and to demonize what little he was able to accomplish.
The collapse of Iraq is Obama's fault, the civil war in Syria happened because of Barack Obama, because he either he did or did not intervene and never mind that the Republicans threatened and attempted to impeach him for both courses. Are we the most uninformed, the most misinformed, the most ignorant crop of Americans since WWII? Res ipsa loquitur. We certainly are and of all the civilized, educated countries we're the only one still serious about believing iron age superstition and forcing others to believe it. Huge numbers of Americans believe that Obama started the recession that began in 2001. No one seems to remember the nearly 1000 documented lies that fomented the disastrous 2 billion dollar attack on Iraq or the effect of paying for it with tax cuts and no-bid contracts for friends of the Administration. No, Obama is the worst because the Republicans paid to make it so, because the Republicans packed the Supreme Court with incompetent religious fanatics and invade our homes and our consciousness with all day and all night slander, fabrications and distortions.
The horror is that we brought this on ourselves and the truth is that we are the worst Americans since WWII with a contempt for justice and a contempt for the truth and we will hang on to our prejudice and superstition and delusion and greed like a drowning man clutching an anchor. The horror is that our system of government depends on a kind of citizen we're reduced to a minority and the ability of the insurgents to incapacitate the reasonable, the educated and well balanced increases every day. The very technology we once thought would spread enlightenment has spread lies and lies so palatible that we gobble them up like a starving dog gobbling shit. It's over. We failed. It's our fault and the only desperate hope I cling to is that when America fails it doesn't take the world with it.
I am going to hang on to a thin thread of hope that enough people are as sick as we are of all this and that the next election will turn the tide and allow reversals of some of these horrors on the state and federal level. Although given the obvious corruption of the SCOTUS I am not counting on much from that camp.
ReplyDeleteI really don't think there's much hope. If public opinion ever turns, I think it will be too late and increased outside pressure when the world gets too hot to support 8 or 9 billion people will change what ever is left of the US to something like North Korea only with some serious weaponry. Am I crazy to think the conquest of Canada might begin to seem attractive in 100 years?
ReplyDeleteDid anyone notice that the GOP machine had been praising the hell out of Putin as the kind of leader we need until he invaded Ukraine?
Politics and public opinion vacillate over the decades and generations. The difference is we have left a huge debt that will cut options for future Americans as they try to solve the mess we leave them. Yes, the boomer generation is a failure; and as the boomers parents always said, our generation would destroy America. The greatest generation was right again.
ReplyDeleteYou again, with the cheap, pre-fab opinions. People are not produced in model years like cars but talking to a low brow, self-important skateboard Republican twit like you isn't going to get me or anyone else anywhere. Take your platitudes and attitudes somewhere else and don't bother to answer or I'll delete your ass.
DeleteBut...but...doesn't Anonymous understand that it was "The Greatest Generation" that gave birth to and instilled their Ozzie and Harriet values in the Boomers? The greatest generation gave us the Boomers!
DeleteNo he doesn't understand very much of anything. Once one latches on to some cheap, satisfying meme, it's harder to let go of than Cocaine. But any proposition that depends entirely on self-supporting stereotypes is false to the core. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are part of that same "generation" and I'm actually not, but that doesn't disturb him. What disturbs him apparently is the "declining morals" trope which has no factual support and of course that obsession with debt. Being a liar, he isn't willing to address the fact that his "greatest" left us with a huge debt which we paid in higher taxes: 90% top bracket, once again. If we are in the kind of trouble he insists we're in, it's not because we're unable to pay our debts, but that we are unwilling to do what was done to pay off WWII, and of course we did that in short order without the results the GOP always falsely predicts. They sold the idea that the 70 years of war we've had since didn't require payment from those who profited from it and now they're trying to shift the blame to a group that can't defend itself, since it isn't a group at all.
DeleteIt's amusing that the people who gave him this idea (I suspect he's a graduate of the Fox School of Economics) don't believe it themselves, but why waste time arguing with a pinhead about a school of thought that makes up supporting data as it goes along while ignoring anything that exposes it as fraud? It's religion, not science.
Kinda reminds me of How Dwarf Clairvoyants Unleashed the Zombie Apocalypse
ReplyDeleteKinda reminds me of a conversation I had with someone while standing outside the courthouse where the Chicago Seven trial was being held. He was positively glowing with confidence about how now, that we'd come of age in this new age we were going to get rid of the kind of government that gagged and bound defendants and could get away with shooting people in their sleep and all the stuff Skateboard above is oblivious to. I said doubted it because the old guard was going to unleash a right wing propaganda campaign such as we'd never seen and of course they did and our kids grew up with it. Yes, Rock & Roll would destroy America and turn us all Communist and boy don't those
DeleteDemocrats like to spend our money. You can beat them to death with facts -- in fact I'd like to - but it does no good. You can't clear a clogged toilet with a Q-Tip.
Ametica has all the tools it needs to avert failure. What it lacks is the will to use them.
ReplyDeleteWe have allowed ourself to grow lazy and readily accept the snake oil politicians love to sell us.
The snake oil brand republican pols are selling has become toxic. Hopefully the nation stops buying it and gives them their walking papers. Rebuilding the republican party into a positive force for fiscal responsibility, social responsibility, and inclusiveness is the direction a new generation of republicans need to take the party.
I'm not going to bet on any great awakening.
ReplyDelete