At the top of the list of unmentionables, if you're a so-called
liberal, is The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama. We can't have a national
discussion about any of these things without being shouted down. The Right goes
bat-crap ballistic and the "Liberal" water carriers forcefully whine ...
again ... about the lesser of two evils dodge. We can talk about whatever
we want to as long as we don't talk about What Is Going On. I don't understand
how any rational American can stop vomiting.
Since there are only got a couple of months before the election, those unlucky enough to watch television in swing states are being carpet-bombed with crazy. The deranged Republican message is to steadfastly ignore what Romney and Ryan have done and vilify Obama for things he has never done. In other words they're lying their asses off by omission and commission. The Democrats on the other hand are focusing on what Romney and Ryan actually have done and said but ignoring the evil Obama has done. Since the Democrats are only half lying they claim the moral high ground.
This go-round, and forever more, I'm out of the game of "Heads they win -- Tails we lose." Regardless of who wins in November the Psychopathic Powers That Be get everything they want for Christmas a month early anyway. As I've previously written many, many times, the present system is completely and utterly unsalvageable. Unless of course you're one of the tippy-top 1%. Then it's a finely tuned machine of wonders.
I suppose I will always have mixed feelings about leaving the United States. Not any of them rational, all of them emotional, and none of them of any consequence. We're having too much fun up here to dwell upon the latest crazy emanating south of the border. We don't need any reminders that it's not perfect up here. Predatory Capitalism doesn't stop at the border, global warming is not country specific, and Stephen Harper's Conservative government is pretty damn scary.
But ...
There ain't no crazy, and for now that's good enough for me.
Regards from Beautiful British Columbia.
Since there are only got a couple of months before the election, those unlucky enough to watch television in swing states are being carpet-bombed with crazy. The deranged Republican message is to steadfastly ignore what Romney and Ryan have done and vilify Obama for things he has never done. In other words they're lying their asses off by omission and commission. The Democrats on the other hand are focusing on what Romney and Ryan actually have done and said but ignoring the evil Obama has done. Since the Democrats are only half lying they claim the moral high ground.
This go-round, and forever more, I'm out of the game of "Heads they win -- Tails we lose." Regardless of who wins in November the Psychopathic Powers That Be get everything they want for Christmas a month early anyway. As I've previously written many, many times, the present system is completely and utterly unsalvageable. Unless of course you're one of the tippy-top 1%. Then it's a finely tuned machine of wonders.
I suppose I will always have mixed feelings about leaving the United States. Not any of them rational, all of them emotional, and none of them of any consequence. We're having too much fun up here to dwell upon the latest crazy emanating south of the border. We don't need any reminders that it's not perfect up here. Predatory Capitalism doesn't stop at the border, global warming is not country specific, and Stephen Harper's Conservative government is pretty damn scary.
There ain't no crazy, and for now that's good enough for me.
Regards from Beautiful British Columbia.
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