Perhaps a little hijack, but here goes, anyway. I think the sad thing is that the scope of political debate in this country has become so narrow as to be absurd. I feel like I’m listening to Lefty and Leftier most of the time. From the outside looking in (which is sometimes the vantage point I prefer) it looks like everyone is standing up to the death for all they have been told to think. I mean no insult to my esteemed T-peeps, by the way, because there are some excellently articulated positions from all sides of the fence (pop quiz: how many sides does a fence have? :)), and therefore maybe some of you will take into consideration what I’m saying. But the public at large gets most of its information from CNN, Fox and Newsweek, and then pats itself on the flabby back for being so well informed. The mainstream media provides a very limited frame of reference (i.e. Bush vs. Kerry to the exclusion of any others), or as TC might put it, a cave. If the Libertarian or Constitution Party platform were given the same media face time, those establishment clowns would be throwing themselves in front of the nearest bus. Why? Because people would GET IT. And that just won’t do. No, no, no. I exclude of course those individuals who have taken to heart all the Marxist drivel they were fed in their college Women’s Studies courses. They’re never going away (and probably never getting jobs, either).
I think, overall, in modern American political discourse, the questions being examined are all wrong! For example, it’s not “just where the hell in the Constitution do we find that it’s the government’s job to educate our children or redistribute wealth to someone who didn’t earn it,” but rather “how much more money should we throw at the insert failed system here and hope it gets better”? Ever notice it’s never enough? There’s a reason I generally stay out of these political threads. IM(well, maybe not so)HO, it makes no difference whatsoever whether Bush or Kerry is elected this November, since they are both traitorous, globalist, UN toadies. Kerry’s just more open about it. I proudly voted for Bush, and have been sadly disappointed. Whether or not you support the war in Iraq is irrelevant at this point; we’re there! I do support the elimination of the threat of fanatical Muslim terror from our shores. I don’t care much for Allah and his 7th century barbarism, thank you very much. But if you catch the little hints inadvertently dropped by the politicians and media (who assume our ignorance), it will become obvious that there is an ulterior agenda beyond freeing Iraq and stopping terror (and no, it’s not lining Bush’s pockets with oil money). The thing is, you have to be able to recognize those hints, and most people don’t. Disarming the law-abiding? A surefire recipe for a new dictatorship! UNESCO textbooks in the schools? Pure global socialist propaganda! Next thing you know we’ll have Iraqi men in dresses and pink boas staging pride marches in the streets of Baghdad demanding to be told, by the force of law, how wonderful they are, mothers with 4 kids by 4 fathers that are nowhere to be found screaming for their “fair share,” and Iraq signing on to the latest global warming treaty! Democracy my freakin heinie!
Oh, enough, now I’M getting angry! (Sorry for the long one, but you know, sometimes…)
Thank you and good day. I’m Michael Moore.
