America? Broken? Is it true? Can he say that?
Part of the reason I know it's true is because that last question doesn't seem so ridiculous in this day and age. But there's a much more concrete way to tell. Turn on the news.
The breaking story seems to be that Obama has all but won the Democratic nomination. It'll be official at the DNC but it's more than a safe bet. Hillary has lost. Hillary supporters are mad. Hillary supporters have vowed to vote for McCain rather than Obama. I guess this is out of spite as McCain shares few values and platform positions with Hillary Clinton. So they're willing to screw over America just because they didn't get their first choice. Apparently the word "compromise" has never been uttered upon their militant, angry, mudslinging ears. Still, that's not why America is broken.
The percentage of people who say that if (since) their first party nominee choice doesn't win then they'll defect are almost exactly the same as in previous years. It's hovering around 34%-36%. The problem is that our country is in a huge hole. We're deep in debt, paying out the ass for an energy crisis that the current administration outright refused to prepare for, killing folks abroad in the name of [insert whatever excuse the Bush administration is pushing at the moment] and living with the fewest number of rights and freedoms since we were a colony. It's that the population is not rallying to fight back and regain the America that worked. It's the fact that people are stupid and petty enough to shove a knife deep into their own American gut while throwing a temper tantrum. And that's why America is obviously broken at this moment.
America is broken because last election people complained that a vote for Nader was a vote for Bush. This time around people are saying that a staunch Hillary only support is a vote for McCain. America is broken because both are right. Elections are getting tied up before the candidates are even announced. It's gone from voting for actual people with platforms to picking someone out of desperation. What does it say when people are willing to stand behind a young, black politician who hasn't been around long enough to prove himself at a state level and put him up against an old and experienced POW who claims to still be progressive. It says that experience doesn't count for shit. IT says that people are so desperate for change that we're willing to put this nation in someone young and possibly nieve's hands and expect it to be better than what we have now. The fact that such trust is most likely correct tells us how low our country has fallen.
What's the point of declaring all of this now? Why point and shout? Because it's become apparent that no one else will. Sure, people have been getting ruffled and pissed for years but where's the outrage? Where's the fiery passion of a riot? We haven't done enough to tell Bush that he's wrong. He's not being impeached. He's not being arrested. To put it another way: Bush feels safe and he shouldn't. Bush shouldn't be safe. How can a man with the moral compass of the Tin man, the political record of a terrorist and the intelligence of half a dead monkey be free to roam and rule the White House for 8 years.
Bush is a criminal. Bush is a terrorist. This should be obvious across party lines, national lines, latitude and longitude. Anyone who hasn't been in a coma since Clinton should see that this man is a disease and he's infected what once was a great country.
To help people see how stupid our law of the land has become I've made a list. Here are things that are not weapons or criminal offenses:
- beards
- holy books other than the Christian bible
- cameras
- bottles of water
- privacy
- [censored] - not sure what is supposed to go there but the government now arrests people and holds them without charges for years at a time so something must be going on
Should we abolish all of this and live in a system where we're afraid? Yes. If you're not afraid now then you're not paying attention. If you weren't afraid before Bush then you never thought about the world. It's not a safe place. You can't down a Snapple and cover the earth in bubble wrap. You can't sign away your rights and expect to be taken care of. Even if this administration wasn't run by an ex-junky, current alcoholic, AWOL, oil money daddy's boy we still wouldn't be able to settle into a completely safe system. There's no where on earth that's completely safe. The only people who feel safe are the ignorant. The only people who are safe are the ones with money and power. And those with money and power don't feel safe because there's always someone else who wants money and power.
America was not set up to be run like a prison. America was set up by a revolution, for a revolution. This country was built on foundations that change with the people and if need be, was expected to be torn down if it became too sick and corrupt, just like the foundation that came before it.
Ok, I'm running out of steam so bear with me. Am I asking for a revolution or do I think we should wait until November to get mad again? I'm telling you to prepare for a revolution and expect to get mad every month. That way if something awful happens, like Bush, you'll be prepared. That way if something goes right you'll be pleasantly surprised and will feel great joy and pride in your government. It doesn't happen often but it can still happen. I'm telling you to read up on the ideas this nation was built on. The Founding Fathers either flat out rejected conservative Christianity (puritanism at the time) or at the very least insisted on safe-guards against it. People who tell you that this country was set up by Christians for Christians are full of shit. This country was colonized by Christians who wanted to be stricter than Europe. Those people killed the natives and within a few generations had fallen to the wayside. Enlightenment, science and philosophy were bubble through the national consciousness when America was birthed. And that birth was an act of Matricide, killing the connection to the oppressive mother that started this place. This country was made with change, by change, for change.
If you're sitting on your ass you're not doing politics right. If you're settling you're not being loud enough. If you're not furious and desperate for astounding change then you're a sad person with standards so low I couldn't find them with a shovel. Read a history book and look to the future, because at this rate you won't have much time left to feel anything from hunger to complacency to rage to pain.
You're a cog in this great machine. Get turning.
EDIT
Didn't I just warn you all about this?
Angry Clinton Supporters Start Rallying for McCain Online
In Appeal to Angry Clinton Voters, Republicans Prep ClintonsForMcCain.com
Morons.
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