Where’s the outrage over Republican’s ‘communist’ claim?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/15/opinion/avlon-west-communists/index.html
First, lemme state that my focus on the GOP is because until fairly recently (about the time of Bush Jr.) I considered myself a Republican. Since I never really considered myself a liberal or a Democrat (though regular reader(s) will see my evolving attitude) I have pretty much always had disdain for that portion of the political spectrum. As such, when a liberal Democrat said something particularly idiotic or engaged in the typical bald-faced lies of politicians, it barely rated notice because, after all, that was what I expected.
As mentioned earlier the current face of the GOP has made me ill. The very thought that I voted for McCain with that idiot Palin on the ticket gives me the retroactive heebie jeebies. But things keep getting worse and worse. This whole communist crap outlined in the article above is a perfect case in point. Idiots that say these sorts of things should never have been elected in the first place because when you say things like that (and mean them as appears clear here) you are basically saying you will never compromise with your ‘opponents’ because to do so would be to debase the very thing you claim to support so wholeheartedly. Just writing this is getting my blood pressure up, it pisses me off so much! I suppose the pendulum will swing back towards the center at some point, though right now it is hard to imagine that happening, and for a brief period we will enjoy less idiocy in government, but then the pendulum will fly past sanity and swing up into idiocy again, just at the other extreme.
I equate politicians with pathological liars. The hypothetical honest politician would never get elected to his or her first office because our brain dead sheeple electorate is so intent on living in a fantasy that they will routinely ignore the truth in favor of some idiotic lie. Thus, were there ever any politician wannabee who refused to feed the sheeple their desired lies, his or her career would end before it even began. As a consequence our political circus self-selects for pathological liars willing to feed the sheeple their expected lies. Based on my reading of the history of politics here in the US, though, it seems that the electorate has always been strongly favoring of these sorts of personalities. It seems our current idiotic race for the Presidency (where as far as I can tell, the only difference between the presumptive candidates is the color of their skin, not withstanding the hysterical blather from the extremes on either side (and _both_ would be terrible leaders for our country and its citizens)) is far from the worst in historical comparisons, yet our country has somehow muddled along all these decades.
I believe it was Churchill who said something along the lines of ‘Americans always wind up with the best solution, but only after they have tried and failed at every other possible solution’. It seems we are once again trying out extreme cluelessness and idiotic tendencies of our electorate by making various litmus tests a requirement to play the game. Few people realize that our politicians are typically chosen by only a couple of percent of our electorate and when these decisions are being made generally the process is exclusively owned by the most rabid of partisans on either side. The rest of the electorate then gets to make the decision between the whack job from the right or the whack job from the left. What a shitty way to operate a government! Decisions are made by elected officials chosen by 1-2% of the electorate on a routine basis. It is shocking that _any_ decisions are ever made!
