Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 : Rambling

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been paying more attention to politics than usual. Normally when I look at the crap Washington is chucking at the American people from either side of the fence I either distance myself more from the government willingly by talking shit about The Hill to my friends, or I simply disregard it as though it was some crap-tastic reality show on some Viacom network.

Lately though, the debacle that’s somehow being called a Presidential race has stirred up the views and opinions of everyone I know, right and left. I’ve noticed some pretty childish things during all of this, with “facts” being pulled out from the assholes of the deep rooted inner 4th grader in everyone, and some of the best examples of tribal knowledge you could ever witness from people who have otherwise succeeded at presenting themselves as professional, educated Americans.

Here’s what bothers me

Republicans say

“McCain and Palin for the win!” - I’m sorry, but for 8 years, I’ve been saying, “Wow, I’d love to see if Washington could ever do any worse than George W. Bush.” With the lowest approval rating for any president in history, I figured he is the bottom of the barrel. Senator McCain… You know, he wasn’t all that bad until “the hero” pulled this wretch Sarah Palin out of the bowels of the one of the SMALLEST STATES (by population) in the US. With 20 months on the punch card as a governor, and corruption accusations from the pagents to her $50,000 tanning booth cloud this completely frightening and self-righteous hypocrite’s past. To make matters worse, she’s more obvious about being oblivious than our buddy George.

“She’s just like us” - What? I’m educated, I know what magazines I read, I don’t think I’m a cut-throat, back stabbing asshole out to get everything I can from as many people as possible by any means possible. I’d like to think that women of the future of America couldn’t relate to her even a little. She’s dishonest, she’s clearly a marketing stunt by McCain to gain a female vote, she’s clearly being used by the campaign to gain some level of “get it” factor to the otherwise clueless McCain ticket. I’d hope that women of America would be strong, independant, intellectual, and HONEST women, working towards the betterment of humanity, just like everyone else on Earth should be doing, unlike Palin.

“Root for America for once, you Liberal scum” - Which America are you fucks referring to? If you’re talking about the war-machine that’s sitting amidst a second great depression, no thanks. If you’re inferring that I should praise the fact that we were founded on a mass of rape and murder of the indigenous people who inhabitted America first, I’ll pass. If you’re referring to the government that goes to war in countries such as Iraq to overthrow dictators for the below reason, I don’t think it’s right:

Oil control is the number one cause for the war in Iraq, not a dictator, not the war on terror. China produces it’s own, but also relies on oil from Russia. In order to maintain a growth cap on China, it is required for the United States to maintain a level of interest in their next door neighbor, Saudi Arabia.

Califonians - Not only does nearly 100% of our oil products come from California, we also supply nearly 1/3rd of the nations oil. Kern River is your Google search term of the day to fact check. Now, let’s try to relate the war to rising gas prices.

Republican generalizations

Republicans don’t understand humanity, nor global society, outside of international conflict and abortion rights. Republicans are notoriously exclusionary, this is natural, as they’re more powered by organizations such as military and religious organizations. Organizations are meant to exclude and dislike: homo-sexuals, persons of a different religious sect, hold negative opinions about other branches of military, but share a common overall dislike for common civilians. They do not believe in globalized economies, nor the greater good of humanity as a whole. They support inferior domestic automobile manufacturers over foreign, regardless of superior engineering in both performance and economy, domestic beers, soccer and F1 racing versus NASCAR are also some prime example of what Republicans end up ostracizing themselves from in order to “root for America”.

Liberals say

“Obama is the best man for the job” - At this point, sure. But keep in mind that this man didn’t, and possibly still doesn’t, like America at ALL. I can see wanting change, but disrespecting our nation? That’s absolutely ridiculous. Oh, he wears a pin on his suit now, congratulations. What gives him the right to turn his back on our Nation, regardless of the state it’s in. I’ll talk shit about Americans who are close minded by the system, politicians who are corrupt, desire change and progress in the digital age, even want to take off to a foriegn country to get away, but America is still my home, and I’ll never see it as lesser because of the shit that’s piling up in the corners.

“Republicans are uneducated rednecks” - Though this might be true for some people, it’s not true for others. There was a time when Republicans knew nothing of George W. Bush. Businessmen, military families, and everywhere in between, being a Republican versus a Democrat really only addressed how the budget was going to be spent. Somewhere in the past decade, it turned into a pissing content between you whiney liberals and those stupid rednecks. The war in Iraq - hope for peace, vote accordingly, protest at will, but belittling your fellow American, and disregarding those that serve the Nation? It’s no wonder a majority of you liberals don’t give a shit about Obama not saluting the flag. Hell, you’d probably praise him for it.

“Obama’s inexperienced, but Biden’s got his back” - Awesome! When’s the last time you heard from Cheney? How often did you year about Gore before he ran for president, or got Earth-crazy with sustainability? Face it, Obama simply has balls and some high stakes ambitions. He’s pretty much going to attempt what most techs commonly see in the job place when a new hire comes aboard, “Change everything to make it better”, which I can tell you right now, will work… only sometimes. But his “change” promises are going to be listened to about as much as you’d expect any n00b to be listened to in a board meeting at a new job.

Fact of the matter

It’d be great if we remembered that we’re all Americans on a planet filled with non-Americans that rely on America when we’re making decisions about our Nation’s and thus Planet’s future. It’d be great if we were all playing on that same team FIRST, before our partisan bullshit games. It’d be great if we remembered that people need to be accountable for the decisions they make, as well as be able to trust one other in times of need… It would be. But as I can tell by the reactions that I’m anticipating from all the prejudice and close-mindedness out there… It won’t.

… I’m going to go watch the debate now, and eat some Cheez-Its, mmmm tasty.