I tend to think of myself as a person who sees the bigger picture, such as where we'll all be in 20 years. That's because I can still clearly remember what things were like 20 years BACK. Believe me, it wasn't pretty...But it had more potential than things do today, I can tell you that.
As I watch the right wing nutjobs and the supposedly-separate-but-no-less-a-nutjob teabaggers scream misleading innuendo in an attempt to drown out your ability to think, or watch as the Republican party slowly spends every last penny of goodwill it ever had in an attempt to abolish black presidents and try to re-create the last era of the Reagan Golden Years, I am reminded that the majority of the American public actually likes this stuff. Hell, most of you LOVE it. You suck it down at face-value, without giving a moment's thought to researching the truth of it, or considering the ramifications of your voting responsibility in the aftermath. And then you get your pathetic paychecks every other Friday, and your take-home is the equivalent of financial sodomy, and you have the brass cojones to whine about taxes? It was in YOUR hands the whole time! You CHOSE not to have any money! You WANTED it this way! Hell, according to your voting history, you LOVE the status quo.
Oh, did no one explain that to you? Too busy listening to the Rush Limbaugh hour of glower to get online and do some fucking research? Too engrossed in Michelle Malkin's latest dose of unreality to look outside your goddam window? There's a fucking reason only Fox News will employ her, people.
Look, I don't subscribe to the magic negro theory - I never did. But I lived through the 8 years of the Bush dictatorship, and saw every gross act of inhumanity that vaguely hominid, milk-fed gimp could possibly throw at us, and we STILL re-elected him. And maybe I don't see how good Bush really was...But I know a son of a bitch when I see one.
I've said it before - Obama didn't inherit a sinking ship, he assumed command of the fucking Titanic, five seconds after it split in half. The fact that he has managed to keep it afloat - STILL - after all this time is nothing short of a miracle. Also, something that Bush couldn't have pulled off on his best day with all daddy's money backing him.
Found a great little website reporting actual researched facts about Obama vs what his naysayers report about him HERE. Check it out, it's worth a look.
As I said at the start of this post, my politics differ from most of you out there in still-reading-blogs land. I'm okay with letting the fags marry. I desperately want an electric car. I think the world is far too overpopulated & fully support abortion. I think the church should stay the butt-fucking hell out of state affairs, period. I think stem cell research holds the key to our medical future, and I truly want a global recycle system in place.
I wish everyone in trailerpark, U.S.A. did, too.
6 comments:
Rail on Brother Bobbe!
At least we live on the West Coast and can see a dose of reality. I have friends who returned from Alabama and said no one would dare put an Obama bumper sticker on their car for fear that people would bash all the windows out.
Seriously, I thought these fucking dinosaurs would die out. Unfortunately, they are breeding.
I don't know if you saw this:
University of Maryland Study: Fox News viewers the most misinformed:
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/john-farrell/2010/12/22/university-study-fox-viewers-more-misinformed
D.R.
I came upon your blog, specifically, this post in the usual round-about way of the internet, which I always find interesting and amazing. I was looking at pics of facebook/high school friends and read the expression, "black as thieves" and didn't really understand the meaning, so I yahoo'd it and your blog post was the fist on the list, so here I am. We happen to share sensibilities in politics (I think). This is what I didn't understand in your post, which you could explain to me if you would: "Look, I don't subscribe to the magic negro theory.." What's the magic negro theory? I welcome you to check out my blog, which you may or may not find of interest. I don't get many visitors, these days, but I write away anyway. Glad to make your virtual acquaintance.
Sherril
Hi Sherril, thanks for posting.
"The Magic Negro Theory" might be a term I coined all on my own, but I'm sure there are too many variants that mean the same thing to claim it.
Essentially, it refers to the bitter spirit that most Republicans have over Obama winning the election. There was (and still is) much innuendo in the sarcastic vein about how Obama is going to wave a magic wand and make everything nice again. You can find variations of this across cyberspace.
As I said on the blog, I don't believe Obama has a magic answer to solve the world's problems...But he is, far and away, the most proactive president we've had in years, possibly decades. He established a program that introduced the first fully-electric mass-market cars to get us out from the yoke of foreign oil. That alone makes him worth my vote.
I find it particularly strange that all the Republicans who are crying in their beers right now were dead silent during the Bush dictatorship. Get your civil rights yanked & not a peep out of them. Republicans, for the most part, fill me with the urge to vomit anyway.
Good post Bobbe. I'm not a west coast guy -- just a midwestern hick from the sticks in Indiana and I agree with most of what you said.
Keep blogging man...
Republican, Democrat. If you vote for either, you're going to get the same thing.
Government!
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