So I haven't posted for awhile and I am feeling kind of horrible right now, so I'm gonna post. I think life in general has me down at the moment. I feel like everything around me politically, economically, and personally is stuck in a downward spiral.
So let's start with the political. If you haven't figured it out by now, Obama lied on the campaign trail about almost every facet of his presumed presidency. I expected this, but I am not exactly happy to have been proven right on this one. Let's see, he campaigned on personal liberty and ceasing the unlawful detainment of prisoners that had gone on in Bush's term. What happens after he's elected? He wants to expand indefinite detention. He decried the secrecy in the Bush regime and their total lack of transparency even when it came to visitors to the White House. What happened post election? He pulled a Cheney and claimed that visitor logs amongst other things which would make for a transparent government should be classified (along with the fuckin' photos of torture that showed inmates getting raped). Hmmmmm. . . See a pattern? He campaigned on the removal of don't ask, don't tell and other gay issues. What happened? His administration drafted a brief asking the supreme court to not hear a case in which don't ask, don't tell's constitutionality would come into play. He claimed in that brief that it was necessary to continue the status quo. Right. He's escalated the war in Afghanistan (which he said he would do). There is yet to be any meaningful ceasing of engagements in Iraq. What is going on right now with health care is a total debacle. I mean, where is single payer in the discussion? If not for the protests in which doctors and nurses were arrested in congressional session, it would have been completely shut out in the talks. Obama isn't our president. This is clear. He is the president of the coal companies, the fucking health industry, Wall Street, and the military industrial complex.
I think the fuckin' Bushies should rejoice in the job that Obama has done thus far. I mean, he's a better Bush that Bush was. All the same policies continued and advanced with none of the bumbling idiocy. Fuck. But I also think that for those of us who aren't fuckin' asshole conservatives, this should be a fuckin' wake up call. The democratic party has fuckin' sold the american people to the very same interests that the republican did before them. The have actively worked to undermine the voices in the party that are legitimately for the people (Kucinich, Gravel, etc.). Shit, they even fuckin' tried to challenge Kucinich for his district. His own fuckin' party tried to fuck him for rockin' the fuckin' boat. Democrats need to wise the fuck up and stop supporting these fuckin' corporate assclowns. It's fuckin' obvious who these assholes support once they're in office and it certainly isn't their electorate. Stop supporting the fuckin' Obamas, the Clintons, the Kerrys. They aren't much different than the Bushes, the McCains. Same shit, different names as far as I'm concerned. In 2000, I got a lot of shit about voting for Nader instead of Gore. You know what? I stand vindicated in that decision.
There might have been an argument to have been had about what a president Gore might have been versus Bush. But at this point, Nader's argument about the relative similarities between Gore and Bush has been vindicated. There is virtual no difference in the decision making that happens in the democratic leadership versus the republican leadership. The argument of what might have been no longer holds water. Obama has shown what the result of a democrat for president 8 years of go might very well have been. He ran with the same fuckin' soundbites about being for the people, against pollution, etc. And look at him now. What a fuckin' joke.
And this brings me to the failed economic policies that have us in our current predicament. It seems that every where I look, people I know are hurting. Restaurants are closing. Something like 50% of houses in Arizona are now fuckin' under water. Jobs are disappearing. And fuckin' Goldman Sachs is about to fuckin' pay out the biggest bonuses in company history? What? Are you fuckin' kidding me? I thought these guys needed bailout money? Oh, big surprise. . . they fucked us. And the fuckin' people in power keep letting them fuck us. What the fuck is going on? I feel like I'm fuckin' taking crazy pills. And GM and the other car companies. . . what a fuckin' joke. So let me get this straight. . . we give them money so that they can shut down their plants and move them to other countries. . . how does this fuckin' help us? Glad we have a government that is looking out for us. Good thing we fuckin' elected a president that is for the people. Power to the fuckin' people. I mean, GM is a joke. The story that is fuckin' told to the public is one of unions causing poor effeciency. Give me a break. They didn't need a bailout from that. What they fuckin' needed a bailout on was their fuckin' failed investments. GMAC handled their investments and they were fuckin' bust-o. Nearly all the money given to GM went to GMAC because of their failed investments. But ultimately, that doesn't matter. What does matter is that our government is paying them to basically cut our fuckin' jobs. And it's gonna get fuckin' worse. We are losing more and more jobs. This shit is spiraling. House prices are going to continue to fall. We've still got another round of forecosures coming. Shit is going to get way worse, I promise you. And yet the fuckin' liberals are still drinking the fuckin' koolade when it comes to our government. For the first fuckin' time in a long time, the executive and legislative branch of government is controlled by the democrats. And look what they've done. We're basically fuckin' drowning and rather than help us out of the water, they've fuckin' put a boot in face and pushed us under. Thanks a fuckin' lot. They've passed an "anti-smoking" bill that was fuckin' written by Phillip Morris. That's worthwhile. They've passed a fuckin' credit card bill that a Georgetown Law professor has proven to be worthless. I'm even angrier as I write this shit.
Now, I'm fuckin' depressed by all this shit. It fuckin' bothers me on a daily basis. I feel like I'm better informed than almost anyone I know but my brother. I can converse about clean coal and what a fuckin' pipe dream that shit is. I can talk about the fuckin' coup in Honduras. But you know what? Where does this shit get me? I'm frustrated because ultimately, I can't do a fuckin' thing to influence anyone. No one fuckin' listens. I have yet to convince one liberal to stop supporting the fuckin' democrats. Apparently, I cannot influence the political process beyond the single action of my vote and statistically speaking, that's not very much at all. Ultimately, people are fuckin' uneducated and aren't inquisitive when it comes to things that happen around them. People are content to watch the fuckin' corporate news, drink the fuckin' corporate koolade, and continue the status quo. But I feel trapped because I cannot join them. I cannot not see what the fuck is going on. And so I'm left feeling continually helpless when it comes to influencing any change at all. And nothing fuckin' changes. It's the fuckin' same shit, different guy. So fuck, what should I do?
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