Their Cheatin' Heart
This is in the way of a reminder/wakeup call, on the off-chance one is needed, of the sort of sleazy tricks and shenanigans we can expect to be subjected to by the truckload, day-in and day-out, in the coming year. The Republican Party can be counted on to use every means at their disposal, legal, ethical, or not, with efficacy a far more important criterion than any conscience-based metric to try to prevent the avalanche in opposition to their now apparent corruption that seems almost inevitable.
Which is to say, almost as those elephants might in a different context, that this could in some senses be seen as a contest between Good and Evil. I would not cast it quite that way, but one could. We are (or should be) of a mind to tolerate differences of opinion, cultivate partnerships even with those we disagree with on some issues, and strongly defend the idea of the Commons. We must also strongly defend the critical role of government in containing the inevitable rapaciousness of corporations and just plain greedy bastards who unfortunately often end up as CEOs and politician-cronies, and insist on governance that is for the people and smart enough to be effective.
Those principles seem to me totally at odds with the present administration's criminal program and the Republican Party's obvious long-term goals of hegemony and a move to a highly authoritarian anti-democracy form of government wholly at odds with our founding principles. To reiterate, I believe we can expect to experience numerous events in the next twelve months that could, sadly, echo "false flag" events by, for example, the Nazis (Reichstag Fire, among others) and our own USA (many examples, USS Maine in Spanish-American War, Tonkin Gulf in Viet Nam context merely illustrative).
I want to believe that those of us wary/olfactory enough to have smelled the stink a long time ago are finally being joined by others angered at having been suckered. Their "party" has for some time succeeded at playing fast-and-loose with incompatible promises and conspicuously engaged in "might makes right" and "ends justify means," to the disservice of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." There is reason for hope that the jilted might not simply settle back into their barca-lounger.
One recent bit of skunkery, a “flag” in its’ own way:
Florida4Marriage sounds like the worst boy band of all time, but it turns out it's not. It's a Republican front group, run by a personal injury lawyer, to lure gay-hating boobs into the voting booths next November.
Florida4Marriage, and its chairman, John Stemberger (a recognized leader in rental car accident law) are the people behind Florida's new Marriage Protection Amendment, and yesterday they finally got the signatures they need to put it on the 2008 ballot.
So come on down! And while you're in there, marking the magic X that proves you're not a homo -- and that your life wasn't a squalid waste of everyone's time, because at least you got yerself hitched -- why not also vote for a Republican president?
Something for you. Something for the GOP. It's a get-out-the-vote win/win.
Anti-gay amendments are the Happy Meal toy of Republican politics.
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Which is to say, almost as those elephants might in a different context, that this could in some senses be seen as a contest between Good and Evil. I would not cast it quite that way, but one could. We are (or should be) of a mind to tolerate differences of opinion, cultivate partnerships even with those we disagree with on some issues, and strongly defend the idea of the Commons. We must also strongly defend the critical role of government in containing the inevitable rapaciousness of corporations and just plain greedy bastards who unfortunately often end up as CEOs and politician-cronies, and insist on governance that is for the people and smart enough to be effective.
Those principles seem to me totally at odds with the present administration's criminal program and the Republican Party's obvious long-term goals of hegemony and a move to a highly authoritarian anti-democracy form of government wholly at odds with our founding principles. To reiterate, I believe we can expect to experience numerous events in the next twelve months that could, sadly, echo "false flag" events by, for example, the Nazis (Reichstag Fire, among others) and our own USA (many examples, USS Maine in Spanish-American War, Tonkin Gulf in Viet Nam context merely illustrative).
I want to believe that those of us wary/olfactory enough to have smelled the stink a long time ago are finally being joined by others angered at having been suckered. Their "party" has for some time succeeded at playing fast-and-loose with incompatible promises and conspicuously engaged in "might makes right" and "ends justify means," to the disservice of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." There is reason for hope that the jilted might not simply settle back into their barca-lounger.
One recent bit of skunkery, a “flag” in its’ own way:
Florida4Marriage sounds like the worst boy band of all time, but it turns out it's not. It's a Republican front group, run by a personal injury lawyer, to lure gay-hating boobs into the voting booths next November.
Florida4Marriage, and its chairman, John Stemberger (a recognized leader in rental car accident law) are the people behind Florida's new Marriage Protection Amendment, and yesterday they finally got the signatures they need to put it on the 2008 ballot.
So come on down! And while you're in there, marking the magic X that proves you're not a homo -- and that your life wasn't a squalid waste of everyone's time, because at least you got yerself hitched -- why not also vote for a Republican president?
Something for you. Something for the GOP. It's a get-out-the-vote win/win.
Anti-gay amendments are the Happy Meal toy of Republican politics.
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