Go to Hell, America!
God, I tell myself, over and over again not to post on Internet discussion forums, and like a moth to the flame, I do, and I always wind up getting angry over it.
This doesn’t do my heart any good, nor my ego, psyche or mood.
What often happens is that right wing trolls slither over onto a liberal discussion board and pose as liberals while spouting obvious right wing nonsense. Now the bleeding-heart liberal response is nearly always to let them have their say, try and see their point and never, never attack them personally, intellectually or morally.
Well, you know, I’m tired of that attitude.
Ever since the end of the Vietnam War and the end of that era’s protests, the left has taken this attitude of “we can’t offend anybody,” “we can’t break laws,” “we must respect other’s viewpoints no matter how vile, racist and stupid.” I’m sick of it.
The right has no problem with ad hominem attacks. Sure they are illegitimate, speculative, half-truthful and sometimes downright mendacious. But they work! Look at what the Swift Boat Veterans for “Truth” did to John Kerry in 2004!
The time of civil discourse is dead, if there ever was a time of civil discourse in this country. Before the Civil War fistfights would break out over politics, but not now. We, mostly meaning Democrats and any others who espouse the liberal agenda, must be genteel and respectful of others’ opinions, no matter how vile, racist or stupid. Jesus, I’m sick of that attitude.
I’m sick of the, “we can win ‘them’ over with logic and beat with the issues” rhetoric.
Bullshit! They, the dunderheaded right of this country, don’t listen to logic; they don’t listen to the issues. God gives them all the answers they need, so why do “liberals” even tolerate these people. It’s like Bill Maher says: Why do Democrats keep trying to fish in the pond of people who’ll never vote for them anyway and neglect the bigger pond of those to don’t vote at all.
On a lighter note, it looks as if our mildly retarded president is looking for an excuse to nuke Iran. Oh, yes, those turban-wearing devils are just out to get us, so we got to get them before they get us. They might nuke Israel, you know.
Truly, in a perverse sort of way, I hope Bush does bomb Iran. Then the Shiite south in Iraq will explode, in and around Basra, the out manned British forces will be overwhelmed. And Sadr City in Baghdad will erupt with elements of the Mahdi Army of Moqtada al-Sadr will clash with American troops stationed there. The price of oil will double, treble, maybe even quadruple and Americans will be paying more that $5.00 a gallon for gasoline.
Of course, the downside of this scenario is that a US bombing of Iran could trigger a terrorist attack within the “Homeland.” Whether another terrorist attack on the United States would truly come from outside forces, or a CIA or FBI front organization under the control of the White House, will never be discovered. If a terrorist attack of scale happens on American soil it will be surely be blamed on either the Shi’a Hezbollah or good, old Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda. Regardless from whom an attack comes it will give the Republicans and our ersatz-cowboy king an excuse to finish off The Constitution and declare martial law.
The only thing that can possibly save the republic from this dire consequence is a military mutiny or massive assassinations of Republican politicians, from the president on down, committed by disgruntled CIA operatives. We are running out of alternatives.
There is no real anti-war movement because there is no draft. There is no real Democratic opposition to Bush, with the exceptions of maybe Russ Finegold, John Conyers, Tom Harkin, Dennis Kucinich and a hand full of others. College kids are money-grubbing, business school, bullshit libertarians, reactionary right-wingers or “demonstrating and anger never solved anything” liberals. Nobody, including myself, wants to be inconvenienced or inconvenience anybody else.
I’m in no position to do anything anyway. I’m no leader and I don’t want a leadership role. I would rather retreat from the world and live a monastic existence, I’d be very happy with that.
But the world keeps intruding. And as much as I’d like to ignore it like the vast majority of up-to-their-necks-in-debt Americans I can’t. I’m already disillusioned.
Go to hell, America!
This doesn’t do my heart any good, nor my ego, psyche or mood.
What often happens is that right wing trolls slither over onto a liberal discussion board and pose as liberals while spouting obvious right wing nonsense. Now the bleeding-heart liberal response is nearly always to let them have their say, try and see their point and never, never attack them personally, intellectually or morally.
Well, you know, I’m tired of that attitude.
Ever since the end of the Vietnam War and the end of that era’s protests, the left has taken this attitude of “we can’t offend anybody,” “we can’t break laws,” “we must respect other’s viewpoints no matter how vile, racist and stupid.” I’m sick of it.
The right has no problem with ad hominem attacks. Sure they are illegitimate, speculative, half-truthful and sometimes downright mendacious. But they work! Look at what the Swift Boat Veterans for “Truth” did to John Kerry in 2004!
The time of civil discourse is dead, if there ever was a time of civil discourse in this country. Before the Civil War fistfights would break out over politics, but not now. We, mostly meaning Democrats and any others who espouse the liberal agenda, must be genteel and respectful of others’ opinions, no matter how vile, racist or stupid. Jesus, I’m sick of that attitude.
I’m sick of the, “we can win ‘them’ over with logic and beat with the issues” rhetoric.
Bullshit! They, the dunderheaded right of this country, don’t listen to logic; they don’t listen to the issues. God gives them all the answers they need, so why do “liberals” even tolerate these people. It’s like Bill Maher says: Why do Democrats keep trying to fish in the pond of people who’ll never vote for them anyway and neglect the bigger pond of those to don’t vote at all.
On a lighter note, it looks as if our mildly retarded president is looking for an excuse to nuke Iran. Oh, yes, those turban-wearing devils are just out to get us, so we got to get them before they get us. They might nuke Israel, you know.
Truly, in a perverse sort of way, I hope Bush does bomb Iran. Then the Shiite south in Iraq will explode, in and around Basra, the out manned British forces will be overwhelmed. And Sadr City in Baghdad will erupt with elements of the Mahdi Army of Moqtada al-Sadr will clash with American troops stationed there. The price of oil will double, treble, maybe even quadruple and Americans will be paying more that $5.00 a gallon for gasoline.
Of course, the downside of this scenario is that a US bombing of Iran could trigger a terrorist attack within the “Homeland.” Whether another terrorist attack on the United States would truly come from outside forces, or a CIA or FBI front organization under the control of the White House, will never be discovered. If a terrorist attack of scale happens on American soil it will be surely be blamed on either the Shi’a Hezbollah or good, old Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda. Regardless from whom an attack comes it will give the Republicans and our ersatz-cowboy king an excuse to finish off The Constitution and declare martial law.
The only thing that can possibly save the republic from this dire consequence is a military mutiny or massive assassinations of Republican politicians, from the president on down, committed by disgruntled CIA operatives. We are running out of alternatives.
There is no real anti-war movement because there is no draft. There is no real Democratic opposition to Bush, with the exceptions of maybe Russ Finegold, John Conyers, Tom Harkin, Dennis Kucinich and a hand full of others. College kids are money-grubbing, business school, bullshit libertarians, reactionary right-wingers or “demonstrating and anger never solved anything” liberals. Nobody, including myself, wants to be inconvenienced or inconvenience anybody else.
I’m in no position to do anything anyway. I’m no leader and I don’t want a leadership role. I would rather retreat from the world and live a monastic existence, I’d be very happy with that.
But the world keeps intruding. And as much as I’d like to ignore it like the vast majority of up-to-their-necks-in-debt Americans I can’t. I’m already disillusioned.
Go to hell, America!
posted by Ernest T Spoon at 9:02 AM
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Eloquent drivel.
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