Today’s Rant: To Win, At Any Cost

Think about all the fatuous, delusional people who are actually gullible enough to believe that Barack Obama has some sort of connection to terrorists.

First, let me say that these people are especially delusional because if there was any credence to the connections, don’t you think every branch of the government would be up in arms investigating his so-called “connection?” If he had a dubious background he never would have made it to Senator in the first place! The insularity of these people is so astonishing; they just believe whatever they’re told/want to believe, and cry out “Terrorist!” when everyone else with a grain of reason sees this McCain garbage for what it is: a dangerous and even more outrageous campaign than the swift-boating of John Kerry.

This win-at-any-cost policy causes me violent nausea. Who cares who they step on to get into the White House? They are disgrace to democracy, to America, and to every right-thinking citizen who believe in the democratic process. For all the Evangelical nonsense about common decency these mudslingers like to pretend they have, they sure do a lot of judging, despite the fact that they might be judged in turn. Of course, the Christian Wrong finds it easy to look away when it suits them. None of these really, really loud bastards are Christians in any meaningful way (other than the most superficial aspects, such as going to church five days a week). Any true Christian would deplore McCain’s sleazoid tactics, lack of compassion, and unabashed hunger for power. While these so-called “Christians” believe Mr. Obama is a literal “plague” that God has sent down to punish us for allowing gay marriage.

I got off topic a bit, but the point I’m trying to make is that when Obama wins, there’ll be a small but significant proportion of the country who will actually believe we elected a terrorist to run the country. These tiny-minded morons have had their whole life run by fear because apparently they are unable to reason their way out of a paper bag. It was easy for them to carry their fear of terrorists back home into the arena of politics, and so it suddenly seems feasible that these insidious Arabs (ah, racism at its finest) somehow managed to get a Manchurian candidate in place.

Do you see the value of education now? Frustration and horror!

The fact that the McCain may have formed a small cadre of people who believe it would be their civic duty to kill our next President is quite possibly the most horrible thing any person could do. I like McCain so much less than Bush despite the fact that he hasn’t done anything yet. You see, Bush never had any principles to sacrifice. He didn’t really have anywhere to fall, and I still believe that he is merely the crest of a wave of Neoconservatism that he only believed in because it was all he knew. I’m not absolving him of culpability, but I’m saying that the rot was so much deeper than simply the Presidency. McCain, on the other hand, previously known as a senator with some decency and principles, has thrown them away whole hog in a pathetic grab for a presidency that he has conclusively proved he doesn’t deserve. Bush was a tool his whole life, but McCain wasn’t, and that’s why McCain pisses me off more than Bush.

The new “pro-America” rhetoric that Palin has busted out is manifestly pathetic and once again dangerous. Yeah, I’m sure certain parts of America are “anti-America,” like, none of it. We all live here, bitch, we all pay our taxes, and we’re ALL pro-America. This is our country, and I’ll be damned if some moose-hunting governor from Alaska comes down here and tells 80% of America that we’re somehow unpatriotic because she’s never lived in a town with a population bigger than 40,000. The Republicans have stopped calling being against the administration unpatriotic – now simply by living in places with large number of electoral votes makes you unpatriotic.

This has been the darkest chapter in American politics and perhaps history, and the GOP has decided to cap it off in an orgy of sleaze, hatred, and division. Obama’s message of unity is so much more than an empty slogan. It is an absolute necessity to move past these fear-and-hate mongers and leave them far behind.

I’m so glad that no one except a tiny group of idiots is buying any of his crap. The era of win-at-any-cost politics is coming to a much belated end. At least until the country is doing well again. Then we’ll get resentful that we’re paying money for things like roads and schools, when we could use that money to buy Dancing With The Stars Season 3 on DVD. Then it’s back to the ‘Pubs.

Let’s hope that, by then, they’re not the same assholes they used to be.

A person is smart, but people are stupid.