So, judging from the comments on my last post,
and the sheer volume of PM's that were waiting for me this morning, I'd
like to make a statement for the record:
I am NOT a party member. Not a mouthpiece for the Democrats, nor a puppet for the Republicans. I write as I FEEL, based on three things: Depth of research, critical analysis of current affairs and lastly, gut feeling after the FIRST TWO have weighed in. The downfall of any good writer is emotionally shooting his mouth off without knowing what the fuck he's talking about. To those of you who didn't have a Steve Perry in your life to bitchslap you whenever you tried to do this, I can only pity you. You will be resigned to mere rants and one-liners, form without substance, until you learn it.
I don't vote for whom I feel is going to merely "swing my way" on the issues near and dear to my heart. I don't cast a ballot for the popular smile.
I vote for the candidate with VISION. Someone who will project what effect his policies will have in 10, 15, 20 years.
I sure as hell won't vote for the party that says "Our policy is to IGNORE the other party's policies entirely...even if they are mutually beneficial!"
If Romney bothered to TRY to present something within shouting distance of reason, I would have gladly given him a platform for his views. I mean that, as much as I detest religion, I would have heard the man out, and compared his plan to the one Obama presented.
Which is PRECISELY the one thing Romney didn't do. He didn't man up and take responsibility. He didn't OWN the problems we face today, he either cannot or WILL NOT address our national crisis, and his foreign policy is non-existent. Romney might have had a shot to be a real contender, but he went with the age-old dog-and-pony show instead. That he did it once wasn't real front page news, but when he simply put the CD player on "Repeat" for the second debate...I knew he had lost.
And frankly, I'm willing to bet a lot of you knew it also. But that's the problem with being locked into a party line, you must always toe it, no matter who's at the pulpit. This is the recurring cry I hear in the background, the undercurrent amongst Republicans everywhere; "We're willing to settle. He's not stellar, but at least he's not Obama."
I'm not willing to settle.
I'll leave out the sheer number of Romney's unprecedented lies, or go into detail about how many reversal-of-position moves he's attempted, because his fact-free campaigning is simply the logical continuation of a trend that started in the Bush administration back in 2001, when the Republican Party literally walled itself from reality.
Right-wingers feel a kind of justification that they don't have to confront facts they don't like any longer. If the truth is uncomfortable, they can give it a miss in favor of a war, or something. They no longer have to watch to Edward R. Murrow dress down Joe McCarthy for his un-American demagoguery. They don't have to listen to Walter Cronkite telling them the Vietnam War is lost. Those days are over -- they can simply switch the channel.
But now there's a tightly-wound cocoon consisting of FOX News, right-wing radio, conservative newspapers and wingnut blogs where high taxes and burdensome regulations are crushing the American dream, inflation is running rampant, businesses are suffering, global warming is a joke, homosexuality is a choice, illegal immigration is at all-time high, our scary Muslim enemies are on the march -- and if only Republicans could take power over the entire federal government again, those problems would all magically disappear.
Look around the world today, China or Iceland, for instance. There are entire countries changing, evolving into something greater for -->ALL<-- their inhabitants, faster than the rest of the world can keep up. Most of Europe has simply overtaken the U.S. overnight in health care, ecological concerns, education and a myriad of other directly-related issues. The children of those nations will be competing with our undereducated "No Child Left Behind" offspring raised on Monsanto corn and cellulose-rich artificial foodstuff.
We cannot continue doing business as if it's still 1985. Our country isn't made up solely of Christians. It doesn't consist entirely of Caucasians. We don't function from the upper 1% or the bottom 5% alone. We are not all heterosexual. We are not all male.
America cannot afford to continue in this manner, or we'll all be dead from stupidity, if nothing else.
I am NOT a party member. Not a mouthpiece for the Democrats, nor a puppet for the Republicans. I write as I FEEL, based on three things: Depth of research, critical analysis of current affairs and lastly, gut feeling after the FIRST TWO have weighed in. The downfall of any good writer is emotionally shooting his mouth off without knowing what the fuck he's talking about. To those of you who didn't have a Steve Perry in your life to bitchslap you whenever you tried to do this, I can only pity you. You will be resigned to mere rants and one-liners, form without substance, until you learn it.
I don't vote for whom I feel is going to merely "swing my way" on the issues near and dear to my heart. I don't cast a ballot for the popular smile.
I vote for the candidate with VISION. Someone who will project what effect his policies will have in 10, 15, 20 years.
I sure as hell won't vote for the party that says "Our policy is to IGNORE the other party's policies entirely...even if they are mutually beneficial!"
If Romney bothered to TRY to present something within shouting distance of reason, I would have gladly given him a platform for his views. I mean that, as much as I detest religion, I would have heard the man out, and compared his plan to the one Obama presented.
Which is PRECISELY the one thing Romney didn't do. He didn't man up and take responsibility. He didn't OWN the problems we face today, he either cannot or WILL NOT address our national crisis, and his foreign policy is non-existent. Romney might have had a shot to be a real contender, but he went with the age-old dog-and-pony show instead. That he did it once wasn't real front page news, but when he simply put the CD player on "Repeat" for the second debate...I knew he had lost.
And frankly, I'm willing to bet a lot of you knew it also. But that's the problem with being locked into a party line, you must always toe it, no matter who's at the pulpit. This is the recurring cry I hear in the background, the undercurrent amongst Republicans everywhere; "We're willing to settle. He's not stellar, but at least he's not Obama."
I'm not willing to settle.
I'll leave out the sheer number of Romney's unprecedented lies, or go into detail about how many reversal-of-position moves he's attempted, because his fact-free campaigning is simply the logical continuation of a trend that started in the Bush administration back in 2001, when the Republican Party literally walled itself from reality.
Right-wingers feel a kind of justification that they don't have to confront facts they don't like any longer. If the truth is uncomfortable, they can give it a miss in favor of a war, or something. They no longer have to watch to Edward R. Murrow dress down Joe McCarthy for his un-American demagoguery. They don't have to listen to Walter Cronkite telling them the Vietnam War is lost. Those days are over -- they can simply switch the channel.
But now there's a tightly-wound cocoon consisting of FOX News, right-wing radio, conservative newspapers and wingnut blogs where high taxes and burdensome regulations are crushing the American dream, inflation is running rampant, businesses are suffering, global warming is a joke, homosexuality is a choice, illegal immigration is at all-time high, our scary Muslim enemies are on the march -- and if only Republicans could take power over the entire federal government again, those problems would all magically disappear.
Look around the world today, China or Iceland, for instance. There are entire countries changing, evolving into something greater for -->ALL<-- their inhabitants, faster than the rest of the world can keep up. Most of Europe has simply overtaken the U.S. overnight in health care, ecological concerns, education and a myriad of other directly-related issues. The children of those nations will be competing with our undereducated "No Child Left Behind" offspring raised on Monsanto corn and cellulose-rich artificial foodstuff.
We cannot continue doing business as if it's still 1985. Our country isn't made up solely of Christians. It doesn't consist entirely of Caucasians. We don't function from the upper 1% or the bottom 5% alone. We are not all heterosexual. We are not all male.
America cannot afford to continue in this manner, or we'll all be dead from stupidity, if nothing else.
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