Required Reading

[Spang]

Dear Republicans,

Fuck you. No, I'm not joking. I'm sick of this bullshit.

I'm sick of the way you've corrupted the public discourse. The way you've made it acceptable to hurl any insult you like at public officials. The way you blame us for the current atmosphere of hatred by accusing us of starting it with hating Bush. Like Bush didn't come on the heels of eight years of your tireless efforts to destroy Clinton by any means necessary, like Bush didn't give us good reason to complain. A couple of posters on a website compared Bush to Hitler and you've used it as free license to compare Obama to Hitler 24/7 and I'm sick of your hypocrisy, where it's acceptable to say shit about Obama that you would have had an apoplectic fit (and did) if anything remotely similar had been said about your guys. Keith Olbermann calls Cheney a fascist when he was actually using fascist tactics and you think that gives you the freedom to call Obama a fascist, socialist, Marxist constantly for no reason at all. Fuck you and your bullshit false equivalency.

I'm sick of the way you've made the populace stupid. Around a fifth of your populace thinks the sun orbits the earth, over half think evolution never happened. Your populace actually believe the media has a liberal bias. Not because it has, you have the most conservative media in the free world, but because you've shouted it so loud and so often that you've brainwashed the public into believing it, like the battered wife who parrots her husband's insults. You've got a whole segment of the populace shouting about socialism and fascism and none of them know what the fucking words mean. You've convinced them that fascism is a left-wing thing. You've got them so turned around that some of them actually believe global warming isn't happening. Fuck you.

I'm sick of the way you try to destroy the whole concept of government. You've tricked the people into believing that government can't do anything right, always being careful to exclude the army because you love your bullets and bombs but you've so destroyed the public's ability to reason that they don't even think of interstate highways, the space program, the national parks program, etc. Government is always great when it's doing what you tell it and inevitably corrupt when it isn't. Fuck you.

I'm sick of your rewriting of history. You've bleated so loud and long that Reagan was a great president, that the New Deal didn't work, that cutting taxes increases revenues, that you actually have the people believing this bullshit. And these are the same people who will go on to become teachers and fill their student's heads with this self-same bullshit. Reagan was a mediocre president at best who had the good fortune to be in power when the USSR collapsed under it's own weight and you bastards have turned him into the Second Coming. You've rewritten history so that everything foul and hateful and wrong can be attributed to a Democrat while everything worthwhile is a Republican's glory. Fuck you.

I'm sick of your dragging the center ever further to the right. How many whackjob fringe ideas have you dragged into the mainstream? The aforementioned idea that tax cuts increase revenues, the Laffer Curve, the idea that Welfare harms the poor, the idea that there's rampant fraud in Welfare, the idea that whatever is good for corporations is good for the country. And you push these ideas through your corporate media and you do it so long and loud that they become part of the accepted political landscape and because it is easier to tell a lie than to debunk one, we never get away from this rancid shit. Fuck you.

I'm sick of your casual criminality. Teddy Kennedy, a man who's boots you were not worthy to lick, was just buried and all I've heard from my rightist friends for days is Chappaquiddick, Chappaquiddick, Chappaquiddick. Your fucking golden boy raped the Constitution, mainly because he wanted to; tortured random people (and waterboarding is torture, fuck you too) essentially because he wanted to; spent like a drunken sailor, essentially because he wanted to; invaded a sovereign nation, essentially for the loot and destroyed people's lives, essentially for the evilulz and you bastards are obsessed with a fucking accident a Democrat had decades ago? You don't go on about Laura Bush killing some guy decades ago. Fuck you.

I'm sick of you praising pure evil. You're letting Dick Cheney be the standard-bearer for Republicanism. Dick Cheney, a man so nakedly evil that even his friends call him "Darth"; a man so callous that Lex Luthor would recoil in terror; a man who probably has dismembered hitchhikers in those man-sized safes and kills plants by his mere proximity. Fuck you.

I'm sick of your attempts to tilt the playing field permanently in your favor. Democrats filibustered a few of Bush's most hateful judicial picks and you pricks started screaming about doing away with the filibuster but now you're in the minority, you're filibustering absolutely everything you can and whining when you don't get the chance. You ignored everything the Democrats had to say when you had power and now that you don't, you scream that everyone must be bipartisan. You don't budge a fucking inch on anything but you insist that everyone must compromise to meet you. That's your idea of politics: Don't move an inch, force the other guy to come to the right to meet you and call the result a "compromise". Fuck you.

I'm sick of your corporatism. You dress it up in false populism but anyone with half a brain can see that you're the brought and paid for subsidiary of big business. You keep pushing tax cuts as the answer for absolutely everything, you keep sabotaging every attempt to control the excesses of big business. You genuinely think the world would be a better place if it was a combination of Bill Gibson's dystopian vision of a corporate dominated world and Ayn Rand's bullshit Objectivism, yet another entry in mankind's endless attempts to find a moral justification for naked greed. You've taken the clinically insane spewings of a woman literally to the right of Hitler (pardon my Godwins) and the 1984-like vision of a dystopian author and convinced yourselves that would be a good place to live. Big business is the enemy of the people, always has been. The ideal for the corporate class is to have a small pool of people rich enough to buy their fucking crap and a much larger pool of people so poor and with so few options that they can be used and abused at the corporation's whim. A corporation's objective is not to look after you, it is to make ever-larger profits by any means necessary. You bastards want to reinstate fucking slavery to the corporate class and you've made the public so fucking stupid that they actually swallow the bullshit you're serving up, they actually want to enslave themselves to the corporations that abuse them at every turn. They actually care more about the corporations right to make obscene profits than they care about their child's right to live on a habitable planet. Fuck you.

Fuck you, you scumridden shitehawks, you make me sick. Just fuck off and die.

[Ashur]

Chappaquiddick, Chappaquiddick, Chappaquiddick

[masteen]

The difference is that Dick Cheney is a monster on a scale that most people cannot comprehend. That kind of massive greed, ego, and lust for power is as far beyond the comprehension of most people as quantum physics.

Teddy's dark side was much more personal, and well withing the grasp of Joe the plumber's feeble mental reach.

[Aabidano]

Whoever wrote that needs a creative writing course, it doesn't flow well at all, nor is it funny.

Not saying Dick Cheney isn't evil, just look at the Dick Dastardly hat he wears, a sure tip off.

I wish the democrats had had the stones to sling some of the dirt Bush handed them for years. At the least they might have gotten some tips on what to do when they became the ones standing in the road with their pants down.

[Winnow]

Teddy's dark side was much more personal, and well withing the grasp of Joe the plumber's feeble mental reach.

That poor woman gasped for air for nearly two hours, holding out hope that Teddy would go get help and rescue her, instead, he went home, slept and sobered up for the police.

He's the worst kind of human being,

[Sargeras]

the idea that there's rampant fraud in Welfare

It's amazing how many people around here on welfare have big screen TV's and drive cars that are nicer than mine.

[Leonaerd]

A rant with no proposed solutions to problems with deep roots. A feel-good blogpost that does little to question broader failures, such as democracy and its thrivant corruption. Why does it seem like nobody on either side of the political fence is willing to discuss anything more important than... the other side of the political fence? I feel I know my enemy better because of this guy's post, but despite all his rage he's still just a rat in a cage.

We'd be a lot better off without religion, without a bipartisan system, and without such fat, wasteful, lazy citizens. Our elitist people have no culture. We revere keg stands, clothing, and a preconceived definition of the american dream currently realized through excess and life in the public eye. We craft cliques where unique is awkward unless it's explained well. We hate bicyclists, your music taste, and think synchronized swimming is gay. This is America, where it wouldn't feel right if our News channels weren't warped.

But mostly we'd be a lot better off without religion. And short attention spans.

Good read.

the idea that there's rampant fraud in Welfare

It's amazing how many people around here on welfare have big screen TV's and drive cars that are nicer than mine.

That line bugged me too. At least he commits to his bias, though.

[Tyek]

Yeah, I am really really tired of this bi-partisan bullshit. I am tired of people thinking only Republicans or only Democrats are evil. Face facts, it took assholes from both sides of the fence to break our system and it is going to take some people with balls to forget the party lines and really try to fix the problems of this country.

"Fuck you Republicans?" The reason the author did not offer solutions is that it is easier to be part of the problem. Now that the Democrats are in power and things aren't getting better they are going to carry the "Bush ruined things so bad it will take years to fix the problem" banner. Both parties suck, both don't give a shit about anyone but their own re-election and both will not fix things until they are forced to work on a real solution. Together.

[Zaelath]

A rant with no proposed solutions to problems with deep roots. A feel-good blogpost that does little to question broader failures, such as democracy and its thrivant corruption. Why does it seem like nobody on either side of the political fence is willing to discuss anything more important than... the other side of the political fence? I feel I know my enemy better because of this guy's post, but despite all his rage he's still just a rat in a cage.

We'd be a lot better off without religion, without a bipartisan system, and without such fat, wasteful, lazy citizens. Our elitist people have no culture. We revere keg stands, clothing, and a preconceived definition of the american dream currently realized through excess and life in the public eye. We craft cliques where unique is awkward unless it's explained well. We hate bicyclists, your music taste, and think synchronized swimming is gay. This is America, where it wouldn't feel right if our News channels weren't warped.

But mostly we'd be a lot better off without religion. And short attention spans.

Good read.

TLDNR

[Aabidano]

Both parties suck, both don't give a shit about anyone but their own re-election and both will not fix things until they are forced to work on a real solution. Together.

Bingo