I am, in general, a fan of Barack Hussein Obama.

He’s far from perfect, or some liberal messiah, but I do believe he’s an American citizen and a decent man.  I’m not at all furious about a Muslim darkie that wasn’t born here.  Count me as at least intellectually adroit enough not to give a whistling fart about all that.

I’m just not worried about it and the people that would have you worry about, don’t worry about it at all either.  These people giggle while they jerk the chain of the great unwashed.  They snicker when the issue pollutes any earnest discourse.  Their only mission is to piss on the flat rock of our politics.  They probably care less than we do although they’re definitely motivated more by racism than anything else.

Suspension of disbelief.  The laudable goal of any work of fiction.

I don’t care about the dipshits that seek to make it an issue.  Donald Trump just recently went in all the way up to his hips.  I’m quite sure that anyone in The Donald’s position could do what the Donald does.  He’s no savant, what he is, is an incredibly accomplished blowhard.  I’m confident he’s an opportunistic asshole.  His own hubris has eclipsed any wisdom he may have once had.  No wonder he’s unable to afford any respect for man so much smarter than him.  Donald Trump is a goofecock idiot and I hear he’s never even taken a drink in his life.  Forgive that for being a red flag for yours truly.

You know, he’ll never ever run for president.  His impetus is pure self aggrandizement.  His insipid television show has yet to be renewed so he’s out there prostituting his own absurdity to advance his brand.  He’d wear a red miniskirt and garish makeup, like Rudy Giuliani, if it translated into to ratings or any measurable quantity of attention.  Same class of whore.  His dog is named racism.  His pony is named fear.  Show me a birther and I’ll show you a frustratingly underinformed bigot.

What I wonder is why we even pay attention when the lint on my balls, or the toilet tissue remnants from my ass crack,  threaten to run for president.  Donald Trump is a fucking cartoon of his own device.  So is Ann Coulter and Rush Limbuagh.  Millions of people bother with this shit and I can’t help but wonder why.  You can discover ugly and egregious things about Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney in a heartbeat but they still suck oxygen from the national discourse.   Are this many of us this fucking stupid?

Yep.

Neither Coulter or Limbaugh or Trump, will ever  bother to run and whether Huckabee or Romney are smart enough to understand it or not, they have no hope of ever being chief executive officer of the United States of America.  They will embarrass themselves and quite a few others in the attempt.  It’s not going to happen.  Conventional wisdom;  GOP gots nobody.  Not one viable candidate for 2012.  It’s a vulgar but comical burlesque.  A carnival waged by and for dystopians.  A cavalcade for dentally challenged, brainfucked losers, miscreants and charlatans.  No one with a chance, despite the naivete and consummate idiocy of so many that walk among us.

Ha!

So what are we doing here?

Lamentably, a big part of it is our own slack jawed fascination with pure but empty spectacle.  It sort of straddles the mentality, and I’ll bet the very ethic and demographic, of great American pastimes from professional wrestling to NASCAR or the NFL.  Pop to hip hop.  MMA to NBA.  Nothing wrong with any of these things unless taken as otherwise directed.

I spend a lot of time contemplating this woefully distorted, obscenely myopic political culture of ours.  From where I sit, it’s tragic that such uniquely American entertainment has so insidiously interloped into our politics and sensibilities.  A disenfranchised populace has embraced hero worship to the extent that a penchant for naked , unquestioning idolatry, deliberately, and with an eye towards bling, misinforms our zeitgeist so thoroughly.  Underestimate it’s impact, the cancerous influence thereof and the damage it does at your peril.  Just last week, Dodger fans beat a Giants fan so viciously he exists in a medically induced coma as of this writing.  The contemporary culture war currently waged manifests in the murder of abortion providers, demonizes teachers, police and firefighters.  Some asshole burns the Quran, resulting in dozens of innocent deaths.  Such ethics seek to and succeed as dangerous and often lethal catalyst for jingoism and nationalism, xenophobia and ignorance so profound as to be cause for celebration.

It’s arduously frustrating bullshit masquerading as American exceptionalism.  There is no moral symmetry here.

What I’m trying to tell you is that you should beware of anything the knuckle draggers get so excited about.  Like Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann or Islamophobia.  All these things are just like the other in that they deliberately and recklessly foment hatred.

Beware of any political party, elected official or candidate that seeks to vilify teachers, cops, firemen because of their unions.  When they try to tell you that’s why we’re broke, they are lying.  They are fucking lying.  We are not broke.  There is plenty of money.  It’s just that we outspend every other nation on earth by a ratio of ten to one on the ability to kill people who piss us off.  A trillion dollars a year on “defense”, more intelligently known as the military industrial complex.  We incarcerate more people per capita than any nation on earth.  GE is the largest corporation in America and they don’t pay a dime in taxes.  In fact, they got 1.8 billion in tax credits last year.  Exxon is the most successful company in the history of humankind and they didn’t pay any taxes last year but received billions in subsidies.

Anyone reading this realistically paid more actual money in taxes than the largest and subsequently most profitable businesses ever on earth.

How do you like them now?

Anymore questions about where the money is, where it goes, who has it and who doesn’t?

We’re so intellectually bereft when it comes to the word socialism that we look past the fact that we now privatize profits and socialize debt.  That social security, medicare and medicaid, despite flaws engineered by greedy politicians are incredibly successful  and popular programs.  That they are indeed socialism and that they aren’t the reason for our deficit.

Beware when any political party endeavors to execute the same against any specific religious faith except maybe Scientology.  Forgive me here, they’re all whacky but to exclude them is hypocritically weak.

Beware whenever the goddamn Republicans impugn a particular ideology.  They don’t fear it.  It’s merely a tool to elevate your fear.

As a result of our apathy and lethargy in the last election cycle, there’s a whole new blistering crop of governors engaged in raping the middle class.  They slash and burn education, social programs and opportunity for the have nots by bellowing that they are the problem when the truth is those monies are proven by study after study to be efficaciously spent and represent an infinitesimal portion of the fiscal problem that is not really a fiscal problem.  For every dollar spent on unemployment benefits, 1.6 six dollars comes right back, immediately into the economy.  Investment in education is far less instantly gratifying but way more important for our long term prosperity.

If you didn’t know this, trust me when I tell you they do.  They get it.  They are acutely aware.

It’s all a distraction while they wage the most vicious campaign of class warfare since anyone reading this got a crack on the ass from a doctor to get their lungs working.

Understand that they aren’t stupid or misguided.  They want to handicap all these things because they don’t share the average American’s vision.  They shudder at the thought of a car in every garage, a chicken in every pot.  They don’t want for us to succeed or even compete as the most powerful nation on earth ever again.  As far as they’re concerned, the rise of our middle class was errant, aberrant and a huge mistake.  What they want is to marginalize as many of us as they can so they can maximize profits by forcing us to join the lowest common economic denominators of the rest of the hemisphere  so we rapidly devolve into a third world economy.

It’s why they wake up every morning with wood.

The Tea party, so recklessly adept at jerking the entire GOP so far to the right,  will be marginalized soon partly because not a single serious thinker gives a mad fuck about The Donald, The Birthers or the Tea Bags.  We’re actually done here.  Trump was the last nail in the coffin because nobody serious takes him or is hair seriously.  Let’s move on.

Really.  The Republicans can’t deal with anything but lockstep and baggers are a serious bummer when it comes to all that.  But I digress.

Yeah, I know Obama just caved on Gitmo.  It really chaps my ass.  This budget fight is a regoddamndiculous circus with every Democratic capitulation being met with Republicans pushing the goal post further back.  Deep water drilling goes on.   Ours wars show little sign of waning and even less reason or efficacy.  Really hard to watch them herding cat’s so disastrously.

But I have hope and reason to believe we have taken the fork too often less traveled in recent times away from such nonsense as evidenced by the actions of the people in various mid-western states in opposition to the overt power grabs being attempted by Republican legislators and executives in those states.  My hope and proof is in the groundswell occurring in those states.  Recall signatures are piling up precipitously, with or without mainstream media attention.

I do believe the fuckery in the middle east, I mean the mid-west, is sobering evidence that a sleeping giant has stopped swiping at the snooze button and begun to wipe the eye boogers away.  It is a very powerful force and fear is an amazing force multiplier.  So is anger and people are getting pretty pissed.  Change is coming from the only place it can, the bottom.  The people.

We cannot afford to wait for 2012 to hold Democrats or Republicans accountable.  Every elected official in this country needs to feel the hot breath of ferociously frustrated and fed up constituents.  The Tea Party is a joke, we can deliver the punch line by showing them just what a grassroots movement looks like and what it can accomplish.

Drinks for my friends.

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