Election.
One of those election things finally came here in the US. And the results are depressingly predictable.
As usual, I never failed to be baffled by the shear ignorance of Americans.
Bush is being called the victor so far. I guess his divisive fear mongering over the last few months has been just potent enough to fool the uninformed and gullible sheep that make up so much of the American public into thinking that his particular brand of fascism is in any way 'conservative'.
George W. Bush is the epitome of everything that is wrong with the Republican Party today. He and his administration have so wholeheartedly adopted the NeoConservative agenda that is poisoning American politics that he has alienated and frightened many traditional conservative and fellow libertarian friends and acquaintances of mine.
It find it hypocritical to the extreme when Bush followers claim to be in support of small government, particularly given how the government has become larger, more complex, and more intrusive in our lives under the Bush Administration than it has at any point previously in American history.
It's laughable when I hear GOParrots squawking about fiscal responsibility while supporting a party that has become the biggest money waster in America.
What really sickens me is that these same people, when out of power, have the audacity to get upon their high horses and claim to be libertarians, believers in Jeffersonian ideals like personal freedom and fiscal responsibilities, yet like the hypocrites they are, they throw away all those things when they attain power.
It came down to a fight between Kerry and Bush, and I weep that Kerry lost.
Of course, Kerry and the Democrats weren't much better. But, at least I would be less fearful for the future of our country with him in power.
A Democratic Presidency and a Republican-controlled Congress would serve to balance each other, to prevent the government from getting more intrusive and larger. They'd spend their time trying to hurt each other, kill each other's legislation and pet programs, slandering each other at every turn. This would serve to keep their attentions away from us, and would thus result in more freedom, as fewer restrictive laws would have been passed. There would probably have been more deregulation of businesses, thus allowing for more competition and lower prices for us. Less protectionist legislation would be passed that would enable companies to get away with price inflation and other illegal activities. The stock market would have been better, there would have been more freedom, and all in the country would have more prosperous, as has been the case every time we've had a Democratic President and a Republican controlled congress. What could have been the most beneficial arrangement in American history for the American people is not going to happen now. Here is to four more years of decreasing social freedoms, divisive rhetoric, and endless war. Yippee!!!
So, thank you, American public. Thank you for showing yourselves to be the uninformed sheep you are. Thank you for more neo-fascism masking itself as conservatism. I hope you are happy now. With luck, by this time next year I'll be sitting somewhere else in the world, looking out and laughing at you as the country you've built for yourselves goes even more to hell.
As usual, I never failed to be baffled by the shear ignorance of Americans.
Bush is being called the victor so far. I guess his divisive fear mongering over the last few months has been just potent enough to fool the uninformed and gullible sheep that make up so much of the American public into thinking that his particular brand of fascism is in any way 'conservative'.
George W. Bush is the epitome of everything that is wrong with the Republican Party today. He and his administration have so wholeheartedly adopted the NeoConservative agenda that is poisoning American politics that he has alienated and frightened many traditional conservative and fellow libertarian friends and acquaintances of mine.
It find it hypocritical to the extreme when Bush followers claim to be in support of small government, particularly given how the government has become larger, more complex, and more intrusive in our lives under the Bush Administration than it has at any point previously in American history.
It's laughable when I hear GOParrots squawking about fiscal responsibility while supporting a party that has become the biggest money waster in America.
What really sickens me is that these same people, when out of power, have the audacity to get upon their high horses and claim to be libertarians, believers in Jeffersonian ideals like personal freedom and fiscal responsibilities, yet like the hypocrites they are, they throw away all those things when they attain power.
It came down to a fight between Kerry and Bush, and I weep that Kerry lost.
Of course, Kerry and the Democrats weren't much better. But, at least I would be less fearful for the future of our country with him in power.
A Democratic Presidency and a Republican-controlled Congress would serve to balance each other, to prevent the government from getting more intrusive and larger. They'd spend their time trying to hurt each other, kill each other's legislation and pet programs, slandering each other at every turn. This would serve to keep their attentions away from us, and would thus result in more freedom, as fewer restrictive laws would have been passed. There would probably have been more deregulation of businesses, thus allowing for more competition and lower prices for us. Less protectionist legislation would be passed that would enable companies to get away with price inflation and other illegal activities. The stock market would have been better, there would have been more freedom, and all in the country would have more prosperous, as has been the case every time we've had a Democratic President and a Republican controlled congress. What could have been the most beneficial arrangement in American history for the American people is not going to happen now. Here is to four more years of decreasing social freedoms, divisive rhetoric, and endless war. Yippee!!!
So, thank you, American public. Thank you for showing yourselves to be the uninformed sheep you are. Thank you for more neo-fascism masking itself as conservatism. I hope you are happy now. With luck, by this time next year I'll be sitting somewhere else in the world, looking out and laughing at you as the country you've built for yourselves goes even more to hell.
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