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November 6th, 2008
02:21 am - America, Forever Pwn3d
So now that the election is finally over, it's time for me to post a nice long-winded snoozer of a political rant. Most people do this sort of thing before the election, but I didn't want to seem like I was pontificating, because I'm not arrogant enough to think that my views are more correct than anyone else's. Ok, perhaps I do think that way, but I'm still not naive enough to think that I'm going to change anyones vote. So anyway, I voted for Bob Barr.
..who?
Bob Barr. The Libertarian candidate for president. Go read about it. Be open minded.
Many would argue that I wasted my vote - to which I would argue that voting for a major party candidate was a waste. Many would argue that this election was too important to risk voting for a third party. And that's complete crap. Propaganda. Shenanigans! While there may be definitive differences between the two candidates, the quality of life experienced by the general population under either regime would be no different. In South Park episode #808, Douche and Turd, a giant douche and a turd sandwich run against each other for the position of mascot at South Park Elementary. It highlights the futility of the two-party political cartel and the insane, blinding, militant rhetoric you hear from both sides every fucking election. For every five reasonable intelligent people that voted for Obama and think McCain supporters are knuckle-dragging neanderthals, I will find you five more reasonable, intelligent people that voted for McCain and think Obama supporters are knuckle-dragging neanderthals. Isn't there something wrong here? Am I the only one that sees the lunacy in this? I mean what the fuck.
The McCain campaign has been a disaster of unprecedented proportions. I'm still not sure how the GOP allowed this old annoying jerkoff to win the nomination when he always made himself busy alienating conservatives by making deals with liberals under the banner of "bipartisanship", which is really nothing but a steaming crock of shit. So then he names Sarah Palin as his running mate as a two pronged effort to appease conservatives and add diversity to the ticket so that you don't have two white guys running against the first black guy to get the nomination. Pretty good strategy. The only problem? SHE'S A FUCKING IDIOT. Seriously, if she were a liberal Democrat, the conservative media would have ripped her to shreds. But of course, most Republicans fell right in line and supported these jokers - not because they were enthusiastic about the ticket, but because they were afraid of Obama and bought into all the hype about him being a raging communist. Which is probably about 90% accurate, but they conveniently overlook the leaps and strides we've made toward socialism in the past 8 years under Republican leadership and how the "neocons" have effectively redefined conservatism as something decidedly unconservative - simply because we were attacked on 9/11. Now generally the goal in an election is to differentiate yourself from your opponent. McCain had several golden opportunities to do this. Gas prices during the heart of the campaign were at record highs. Did McCain throttle his opponent for being against drilling for more domestic oil? Nope. Then the $700 billion bailout package makes its way through the Senate, and both presidential candidates voted for it. Here McCain could have voted against it, highlighting himself as a champion for the working class, and effectively ruining Obama's shit. But no, he thought "getting along" was better. If either one of those assholes had voted against the fucking bailout, they would definitely have received my vote. And I wouldn't have taken fellatio off the table, either. But there's no sense dwelling on the Republicans, because nobody likes them anyway.
The real problem at hand is that everybody seems to think Obama is Jesus Christ reincarnate. And that his ideas about "change" are in any way fresh or original. Lots of brilliant, intelligent people have bought into this marketing. And that really saddens me. All this "change" shit sounds awfully familiar to me. Where have I heard it before? OH yeah. In 1992 when Bill Clinton first ran for president. He went around everywhere saying "It's time for change" over and over again. And umm...hmm. Yeah. Nothing really changed. But he sure made people feel good and tingly. People loved that bullshit charisma. Geniuses and dopes alike. Here we are 16 years later, and not enough people have learned anything, and it's the same shit all over again. Geniuses and dopes have now fallen in love with Obama's charisma. The country's not going to actually get any better, but he's gonna talk purty like Slick Willy did, so everything will feel fabulous while we go down in flames. George Bush talked like some damn Texas high school dropout, so naturally the public felt accordingly about the job he was doing. It's like the Reagan Democrats. Reagan Democrats are nothing but Democrats that fell in love with Reagan's charisma. It had nothing to do with ideology. God only knows why the GOP strategists still talk about the phenomenon when they haven't put up a candidate with that much charisma since then. But back to Obama. So this guy's going to magically fix everything by creating more bureaucracies, task forces, committees, etc. And we're going to pay for it with lopsided tax increases? Brilliant. Who's that going to effect the most? The wealthiest? Uh nope. The wealthiest people can make income disappear with the stroke of a pen. Remember - they tax income, not wealth. So the people earning the most income get taxed the most, and the extraordinarily wealthy go on vacation. The bottom end of the upper class and the upper end of the middle class are the ones getting the shaft here. And we're not talking about CEOs and celebrities. We're talking about people that are operating successful small businesses. Farmers, tradesmen, financial service providers, pizza shop owners, etc. You know, the very fucking backbone of the economy. Yeah, let's punish the successful people, asswad. Now why - why God WHY - does everyone seem to think that government health care is a great idea? "But wait! Obama's not for that, he just wants the government to cover the uninsured." Oh how marvelous! Ever heard of the Golden Rule? Whoever has the gold makes the rules. So if the government is picking up the tab for all these uninsured, they will do so under their conditions. Which means that they essentially will be running health care with an iron, ultra politically correct fist. And that will be a predictible unmitigated disaster, so the government will then step in and directly take control over the whole fucking industry. Why? Because the government got too involved to begin with. Mark my words, this will be how it plays out. Additionally, these small businesses are going to have to insure all their employees now - which sounds great for the employees, but now you're even further squeezing these businesses in a shit economy. When these guys go down, they don't get severance pay or unemployment. How are they going to cope? By taking a hit on profits and passing the cost on to the customer. So make everyone poorer, right? Or why not get the government out of health care and health insurance so that competition can bring down costs, and individuals can decide more precisely what kind of coverage they need, instead of having some one-size-fits-all plan thwarted onto them. But no, why should we be able to make our own health care decisions? Washington elitists are smarter than you and I, so they're better equipped to know what our health care needs are, right? *extends both middle fingers in the general direction of Washington D.C.*
I don't entirely disagree with his foreign policy, but I am very skeptical. He says we're finally going to go after Bin Laden & co. along with a big fat "FUCK YOU" to Pakistan, but in the grand scheme of things, I think the military is still going to be deployed somewhere over there, getting involved with shit that has nothing to do with us. And I'm not one of these emotional fuckjobs that gets grief sticken everytime a troop gets shot over there. The troops aren't 'boys'. They're grown-ups, and they signed up for that shit. My beef is that the war is costing us $10 Billion a fucking month. $10 BILLION. Every month. Fuck that. And it's not that I'm putting a price on our security, it's just that we're not accomplishing dick over there. Let's just say all goes well, and Iraq miraculously becomes a stable democracy. Then what? Are Iran and Syria gonna be like "Oh SNAP! We should end terrorism, espouse individual liberty, and get some McDonalds franchises up in here!" Not quite. A better way to end terrorism is to stop fueling it. Bring all the troops home, close foreign bases, end foreign aid and withdraw from asshole organizations like the World Bank, The IMF, The United Nations, etc. Then levy a substantial tariff on oil imports from nations that are in any way involved in terrorism. Might as well throw Russia and Venezuela in for good measure. Finally, dismantle the Federal Reserve and establish sound constitutional monetary policy. But anyway, back to Obama again. Don't expect the war to magically come to an end. He's only talking about ending the war in Iraq and moving it back to Afghanistan, so we might be at war for another decade. Even if it does magically end, I guarantee he'll have the military involved with some godforsaken bullshit humanity crisis like Darfur.
I can't even imagine what sort of constitutionally ignorant 'intellectuals' this guy's going to put on the Supreme Court. God help us all. Superior intelligence shouldn't be a requirement for running the country. I'd rather have an average guy with street smarts and the right perspective running the show than some cerebral know-it-all who sees most of the public as inferior. I guess I could go on and on about why this guy is bad news, but it would take for ever to go through every issue. The bottom line is just that he's been harping about change and hope and all this vague nonsense recycled form 16 years ago, when there's nothing new or hopeful about it. Generally, his plan is to expand the scope of the federal government to solve a myriad of problems that were exacerbated by government meddling to begin with. The government's only solution to every problem since 1930 has been more regulation. At exactly what point does it start actually working, and what exactly is unique about Obama's ideas that would make them work? (Boy how I wish questions like that were asked during a campaign)
So for those of you who are excited or depressed about the outcome of this election, chill out. It's the same old shit.
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