Politics 6.

Anarchy.

Yeah, right.

Fuck you.

Same goes for anything starting with "anarcho...", and same goes for anything that could conceivably lead to anything "anarcho...", cloaked in thinly veiled double-speak.

Fuck.
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Politics 5.

Patriotism.

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Politics 4.

Foreign policy!

Horrible.

Blood soaked horror movie.

This is where it all goes to shit, and gets flat out evil.

Nevermind Sarah Palin, and her dumb fuckin' book, what about the shit that goes on abroad, y'know?

Do I have to go into the history?
You people went to school.
Even the watered down cutened up history they gave us all in public school couldn't make America's doings as a superpower look pretty.

But....no one's really pure....and you ain't gotta be a superpower.

Fucking France left us the mess in Vietnam.

...wait...fucking FRANCE??

How did they get way over in fucking Vietnam, that ain't even on the way to anywhere close to them...

France...keerist....

Course, then there's Britain's lovely track record.

No wonder America wanted to be isolationist for so long.

Only way to keep the blood off your hands.

But, the politician class is always inevitably contaminated with those that thirst for that blood.

So....it's amazing we kept out of things for so long.

I heard some goon sputter once "America is a force for good in the world".

Well....the phraseology is some starry-eyed bullshit...but even dissecting the sentiment...I don't know...

I really don't fucking know....

How anyone can look at the tally of all around global misbehavior, and sees hope, ideals, optimism,...that sort of mind is an alien planet with a sulphur atmosphere to me.

But...sometimes, a dictator gets toppled as a seeming accidental side effect of our "protecting our interests".

Course, how many dictators did we prop up in the first place?

That kind of zeroes out the scoreboard for me.

I've never heard a rationalization that didn't make me even more nauseous.

Never had the circuits that could run the whole "do evil to do good", equation without getting gobbledygook out the other end.

I'm willing to be open to the possibility that it's a failing on my part.
I've been condescended to as if it were.
Maybe if someone could walk me through it.

I look at horror, and I still see horror.

Maybe it's me.

Maybe it's me.

Could be....

Hope in the face of what a mess this world is in....I'm having trouble with it...have for a long time.

Whatever the "America is a force for good in the world", people are smoking, it makes them seem pretty bright eyed and bushy tailed.

Maybe if they handed me a toke?

Hmm?

No?

Okay.

Again, maybe it's me.

Maybe it's me.

Or, maybe not.

Maybe, just maybe, it's really them.

Maybe it's more bullshit.

Maybe it's more of the whole fear-based "we need bullshit", okey-doke that only serves a minority of self appointed elites.

Nah.

I'm sure it's all holy, and noble, and I'm just a spoiled brat.

And I'm sure it'll all be explained to me why.

If not in my lifetime, then in Heaven.

Surely.

I just have to have faith, and be patriotic.

Then I'll be happy with things the way they are.

Surely.


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Politics 3.

The right and the left.

We'll never be free of this little tussle for as long as I live....*sigh*....

Wheeelp, ya take a commie, water him/her down, ya got a socialist, water 'em down some more, ya got your average lefty.

Same for the right...'cept ya start with Ghengis Khan, and use a lot more water until you hit a rational conservative. :P

Keep watering until either solution is chemically pure, you got your genuine moderates.

Your lefties tend to go Democrat, your righties tend to go Republican.

Your moderates could go either way.

Or, neither way.
Hence our low voter turnout.

Then you've got your fake moderates who ain't fooling anyone, they're an elephant/donkey in sheeps' clothing.
That shit's fucking irritating.

And then you got your conserva-dems, and I dunno how that works.

Libera-pubs don't seem to exist.

These things go in cycles, but for right now, in late 2009, the Repubs are having a little bit of a batshit infestation.

We're all hoping they iron that out.

So, there's your two factions that like to knock heads together in our little two party system here in the states.

Britain has a similar deal going on, but they have the spectrum divided up into more parties.

Matter of fact, I think the U.S. is the only one who does it this way with the whole stupid "red vs blue", shit.

Oh, yeah, and of course, through the respective kaleidoscope lenses of ideology, your righties tend to see all lefties as commies, and your lefties tend to see all righties as fascists.

Yeah, that kinda thing is always good for a political discourse.....

Course, doesn't help that some of 'em are commies and fascists.....

And then to top the whole 3 ring circus off, you've got that politicians as a class of people have more than their fair share of sociopathic habitual liars.

But, as I laid out in part 1, this tends to be inevitable.

So, it's really all a big fat depressing mess, really.

But...as I laid out before, the alternatives are worse.

Some people will try to tell you there's no real difference between Repubs/Dems....and that's a big fat load.

Watch the health care debate mess, they're practically pulling hair.
And then look at how ignorant some of the individuals involved are.
People that stupid can't pull of a staged conspiracy.
That's real disagreement.

The ones who say there's no difference are typically your Libertarians, who say the Reps/Dems are both stealing your money, and curtailing your liberty, but from different directions.

Well, that's some cute rhetoric, but I invite these folks to spend some time in an African village outrunning warlords out to hack a limb off, then get back to me about this whole "losing our liberty!!", shit.

As for "stealing your money",...well, I point back to, it's all imaginary, you get in your paycheck what you get.
"Tax cuts", aren't gonna do a goddamned thing, they'll just take it out of you some other way.

This "money out of my pocket!!", delusion is more entitled (yes, entitled, you heard me) western white boy shit.

So yeah, this whole "so and so is a Nazi out to shit in my dinner!! Arrggh!", because someone gave a dopey speech, or signed a bad bill, these are the fears and gripes of a soft people, and only a free people can get so soft.

But, that's no bad thing.
That's what freedom is for.
The alternative is outrunning warlords.
Fuck that shit.
Our ancestors didn't want to live that way anymore.

Fuck that "Red Dawn", macho romanticizing of toil and violence horseshit.

And speaking of that, have you ever seen how goddamned fat John Milius is?
Well, there ya go.
Case closed.

So, in the end, all the bitching by the right about the left, all the bitching by the left about the right, it's really a symptom of well...liberty working.

And I include my own bitching in all of that.

But, I sort of covered that from another direction.

I mean, hey, you think I'd get away with all my writings on religion in Saudi Arabia?

....still....despite all of that, politicians ARE still awful....

But, they always have been, and we still muddle through as a people somehow, because here we are.

So, my advice, just don't sweat 'em.
And take the advice your parents and/or grandparents told ya, don't discuss religion, or politics at the dinner table.
Else it just ends up as well, the cartoon at the start of this damned ramble.
And if someone tries to foist their politics on ya at the dinner table, remember this old chestnut.

So, ideology shoveled away like he dung it is, all that's left that really matters are issues, and all that matters as far as that goes, is policy.

And just know this.

You'll never get exactly what you want, and probably not even close to what you want.
Especially if the other party from yours is in power.
And probably not even if your party has the power.

So, don't invest your hopes in politics, and politicians.

That's yet another path to mental illness.

And, also know this.

Despite no one getting exactly what they want....again, somehow, we've muddled through pretty well as a people.

So...maybe people are just fucking crazy.

Oh, right, they are.

But, that's what this messed up imperfect system attempts to manage.

Enjoy the show.

And again, try not to sweat it, or you'll end up like me on election nights.

Well, okay, maybe that's not so bad, any sane person was glad those elections were over.

But, any other time, y'know....

Politics, it divides us, but it really shouldn't.

I mean, look at that...barnyard vs circus animals??

Chrissakes....


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Politics 2.5.

Comma-nizzum!!!!!!




Okay, gotta take a little side trip here.
If I bothered to deconstruct Randism, might as well do the other side of the coin....

Laurie probably won't like this entry....

Well, I tend to piss everyone of eventually....sorry....

Well, the question always comes to my mind, why oh why, has the ideal Commie utopia never happened?

Always, always, always, a dictatorial craphole with a dictatorial crapfuck running it.
Your Chavezes, your Castros, your Lenins, etc, etc....

The Communism that's been inflicted on the real world, not too impressed, I have to say.

The Communism on paper straight from Marx....I'm thinking it's like the Christian Heaven, don't wait for it to happen.

Not until the replicators come, anyway....

But when's that gonna be?
The year Squajillion?

Something that won't work 'til the year Squajillion, I ain't holding my breath on in my lifetime.

Hey, someone prove me wrong.

I mean, I'm on record, I loathe the miserable hateful punishing torturing bullcrap that comes from a class based society as much as anyone possibly can.

If some magical political thinker could poof all that horror away, and along with it, take the Tabasco soaked broken glass out of my head, don't you think I'd dive at that relief like Rush Limbaugh to a bottle of Oxy?

So, why aren't I ramming Marx into my hungry gullet with tear soaked muffled grunts of pleasure?

Hmm? Ask yourself that.

Clearly, I'm a bit skeptical.

I think history has given me reason to be.

Anyway, IMHO, the ultimate reason it's been a flop in the world,...people just don't want it.

You can call 'em stupid, you can call 'em indoctrinated, you can blame it on sabotage by nasty corporate and CIA fucks, and their puppet dictators, you can point a lot of fingers in a lot of places, but, ultimately, whomever's, or whatever's to blame, in the big pulled-all-the-way-back taking-it-all-in picture, it still all boils down to humanity ain't ready for it.

Which brings me back to the fuggin' replicators.

So, yeah, I'm a scoffer at modern day stabs at such a system, and like with Randism, I see no place for myself in that little utopia.

I see myself as roadkill in everyone's utopia, frankly.

Shit, I see myself as roadkill in this fuggin' world.

Course, as diseased as this society is, it's someone's fuckin utopia, innit?

So, yeah, there's my chunk on Communism.

I consider myself a dreamer, but even I can't pull this one off....

Maybe it's me, maybe I'm the grouch....

Maybe.

Who the fuck knows?

All I know is the thing that calls itself Communism that I've seen with my eyeballs ain't so hot.

I'll lump it in with cold fusion until I see a successful experiment.

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Politics 2.

Okay, so democracy has its faults, but compared to the alternatives....


What else is on offer?

Fascist dictatorship?

Randroid-y rule by Übermensch-ian corporate oligarchs?

Communism?

Yeah...no thanks...

Funny....there really hasn't been any good new political thought since the enlightenment.

I mean, yeah, things are better since then, the abolishment of slavery, civil rights, etc, but...that was all stuff floating around the memesphere even back then, I'm talking whole cloth new ideas.

That's all they came up with folks, collectivism, the radical individualist reaction to that, and....that's it.

What's the other political force out there?
"Social conservatism".
Bible shit.
That ain't new.

So, these are the ideas we've got to play with, folks.

Centuries of great minds furiously straining at the boundaries of their skulls, and this is what our species has to show for it.

And people wonder why the world is in rough shape.

And people wonder why politics sours my stomach exactly as much as religion....

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Politics.

Okay, it's like this.


The politics of a civilization typically go through three stages of development based on how those in power acquire their power.

Bloodshed, bloodline, and lies.

Maybe there's a stage after that more beautiful and enlightened, but we've never seen it.

As a civilized western democracy, we're at stage three.

We seem to get stuck a stage three, and I think I know why.

Goes back to my old rant about people fantasizing about voting for someone like themselves.

It's a delusion, folks, wake up.

You got no right to bitch about the cloud of lies so long as you've got this delusion going on at the same time.

You want these people to resemble you?
Are you fucking nuts?
Do you know how many fucking people there are in this country?

You don't want a human to represent you, you want a shapeshifter.

And then wonder why these people fucking lie.

You hold a gun at their head to do so.

Everything wrong with democracy follows from that.

Now, I know that if I was magic-poofed into the president of the U.S.A, I'd run things like The Irresponsible Captain Tylor.

Except without the luck powers.

I have no illusions about this, and I therefore have no fantasy projections onto these fucking people they shuffle around for us to vote for.

But, like with religion, you can't snap people out of this little myth, either through calm reasoning, or yelling at them, so....we're stuck.

The ways out of the lie stage, is for people to drop the fantasy, and then you might get some more damned honesty, OR for people to drop the fantasy by getting off their asses, and running for office.

Don't look for it to happen, democracy is a spectator sport for most people.

So, while that remains the case, lies and liars it must be.

Well...that gets me to the next phase.

People demand their politicians lie to them, and then they have the nerve to get sick of the lies.
Eventually, they have no other way to vent this pent up frustration after awhile, but getting dangerous.

Sometimes, this causes a revolution.

Then the cycle repeats.

So, maybe there is no fourth thing to escape it, maybe we're doomed to a loop.

Bloodshed, bloodline, lies, bloodshed, bloodline, lies........

But, if this is the case, and politicians know this, is it any wonder their lies get slimier, and their schemes get more insidious, and back-room?

You really do get the government you deserve, folks.

Spare me the self-righteousness.

Unless you're against bullshit in all its forms.

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