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Dumb dumb dumb Americans.Republicans are dumb because they don't comprehend the basis of what makes something newsworthy. Nor do they have the skills to debate the merits of an article from different perspectives. They instead absorb what they consider news by watching right wing friendly networks like Fox News and surfing conservative blogs that spout the dumbest s**t I've ever heard outside the pages of the satirical onion newspaper. A large majority of them don't read well if they're lucky enough to at all; they often work jobs that require no skill whatsoever from outside sources of training; they choose willingly to vote against their own best interests and vote on narrow minded issues they think they can understand like abortion and gun rights. Clingy kinda people aren't they ;)
Democrats are dumb because they're scared little moles, fearful of saying things that would alienate people. The general rule became "if offense this will emit, then those words we won't permit." I hated Kerry from the beginning and realized that if he was being considered the future of the party, then this country was doomed no matter who got elected. I figured if Democrats were dumb enough to elect him in the primaries over someone actually dynamic and committed like Howard Dean, then this country deserved the reign of George another four more years.
And if there was election fraud in Ohio, nobody in the "American public" ever cared enough to look into the investigations that were done of it. That is to say, nobody took the time to go to their local library and read up on it. If people had cared then maybe there could have been a call for action. It doesn't matter whether it was followed through or not, but when most Americans haven't even heard of the possible fraud despite there being ample sources for them to turn to for information, then you have to conclude that people just didn't care enough to find out more. What we got was a 'fairly' quiet acceptance of the fact that George was in, and a 'move along' attitude to back it up with. Sad but true.
Now comes a new morning and we have Obama. But do we deserve him? Do we really deserve a guy who seems to put the public first, who says he wants to try and help us? When we've been so complacent and demanding of others to do what we say in the world or else get the club of economic and military sanctions brought down upon them?
We sure didn't show we cared then, why should anyone care about us now? Or believe us when we say we want change!
McCain offered nothing more than the same ongoing continuation of Bush policy that we've had for these past eight years. In fact right up until the economic came crashing down upon our heads, his numbers were right up there comparable to Obama's. Only when we started to panic did we start flocking to Obama's side. But up till that point, people still were showing that they really didn't care about trying to do things differently. If perhaps half the country was still saying they were willing to accept another Bush term under McCain, then weren't they also saying in a strong voice that they frankly didn't care what was going wrong in their country? Point in truth, they didn't want to know, because facing the truth would have meant upsetting their carefully constructed bubble they built for themselves.
Well now the bubble's burst. And we're finally coming out of the woodwork to say we do care. But can we really care that much when we had to be dragged kicking and screaming into saying it? Only crying out for help once we lost our job but not while others were losing theirs? Only crying out pityingly over who'll feed our kids when the house we couldn't afford in the first place falls out from under us? Weeping for a man who says he'll bring us the hope we crave to fit a future we finally realized was slipping away forever? Have we finally realized we're not that "greatest country in the world" garbage we so arrogantly believed all these years. That we're not the hots**t we so devilishly fooled ourselves into swallowing without chewing first.
Now I love this country and a lot of the good that we have done around the world. But these past eight self-glorifying years under republican rule speak for a different America. And we bought into and followed it to where we
are now. Past deeds cannot undo what we reap in the present because to everyone of this generation, the present is what they know best.
So in celebration of our newfound actualization, we throw a grand old inauguration to try and show that we finally do get it. That we really do finally want to carve a new staff to support ourselves with in the future. We want to believe that this once great and prosperous country has a chance of becoming something of its old self again, both here and around the world.
But do we really deserve any pity after the hell we've put others through? Do we deserve, from anybody, to mercy we seem to belt out we feel we should get? After so vauntingly glorifying the consumeristic lifestyle as being a model for the world to follow, should anybody really extend the hand of gentle fellowship we're so sadly begging for? To say we were better than you all along, but now we're sorry, let's let bygones be bygones and move along yet again.
I don't think it's unfair to say that this country DESERVED a person like Bush.
And everything he did to it.
And everything we'll have to reckon with that was done under, not his name, but our name.
So do we deserve a man like Obama to lead us out of this? Only our results will say for sure.
