June 24, 2005
Opinion: , Rants:
I'm mad as Hell...
By Jack Grant...and I'm not going to take it any more.
I'm leaving for a two week vacation, away from everything. My job, my apartment here in France, everything.
Why?
I have similar feelings to those expressed by John Cole (although I'd have to be at the point of suicide to vote a Nader/Buchanan ticket):
Sick Of It All
I am sick of the state of American politics right now.
I am sick of the arrogance of the Republican party and the impotence of the Democrats.
I am sick of people calling people traitors or un-American or anti-military or anti-Christian because they disagree with them on issues.
I am sick of everyone distorting everyone elses positions.
I am sick of the knee-jerk Bush apologists and the knee-jerk Bush attackers.
I am sick of people calling people pussies because they think chaining someone to the floor and forcing them to lie in shit for 24 hours is over the line.
I am sick of the Supreme Court consistently ruling against the individual.
I am sick of Congress passing inane and pointless laws.
I am sick of the disgusting spending.
I am sick of the assholes in my party who think they have an absolute and perfect view of truth and morality.
Read the rest.
I won't add to his list.
Some self-labeled "conservatives" think that John Cole has "gone off the reservation" and is no longer someone who truly leans right.
Perhaps he (along with many others) hasn't drunk the kool-aid that is infecting the right-wing with the same idiotic tendencies formerly expressed mainly by the posters to the Democratic Underground.
Symmetry is an appealing virtue in Physics.
The symmetry we are now reaching in our political "philosophy" (if it can be dignified with such a term, instead of "idiocy") is beyond disgraceful.
Posted by Jack Grant at 04:47 on 24 June 2005Jack,
As usual, you are right and I wouldn't put up a penny to bet against you. I went to the post by John Cole (your recommended reading) at lunch today and I was fascinated. What a conversation and analysis of the situation! Just add your work and it would be perfect. Some of those folks commenting are really hard-wired though. I'd even be hard pressed to vote for a Nader/Buchanan (oh man!) ticket.
Your list says it all. Take a break from this stuff on your vacation. I had to myself this week-not a lack of interest, just burgeoning sickness from the whole of our situation - and frankly, I'm embarrassed: for myself, my country and especially my government.
Regardless of what the blinder-wearing-nay-sayers spout, people who disagree with the government are the true patriots and the ones who always end up saving the country from deeper disgrace. It's time, past time, to look with a clear view at what we are doing as a nation and whom we let get away with it.
Have a great 2 weeks. We'll miss your posts, but, you are better off away from this mess for awhile.
S-
Posted by: Sinequanon at June 24, 2005 07:21 AM
