One of the big problems with American democracy currently is that poor Americans have some how been duped into following their religious beliefs over all else. They vote for the republican party which doesn’t care about them, out of fear of gay marriage and stem cell research because of their religious ties. They vote republican because 911 got their redneck juices going and gave them a whole new race that they could hate openly. They haven’t been this happy since the 50s. They have political stances of hate that they can get behind without being out casted like the KKK kooks. Quite the opposite, their opinion combined with that of the rich assholes makes a majority (however slim it maybe) in this country. They don’t care that we are ruining our reputation, killing innocent people, killing their kids in a useless war (they keep sending them), or that they are voting against their own financial interest. None of that matters to them because they now have a new avenue for their blind hate.
I speak from experience. I was raised overseas but most of my family is poor white trash from the south and these people are just misguided and ignorant. I have a cousin named Jr. that stopped drinking Budweiser because they had a gay friendly advertisement. It’s that kind of “hate gays more than you like beer” silliness that is destroying us.
Spot on, the republican party is always coming up with some fucked up way to get the rural poor to vote against their interests so hard simply by appealing to some weird sense of machismo and intolerance. Another one is the Bush tax cuts, which don't effect the poor positively in any way at all, but he some how passes off as something that doesn't just benefit the top 2% of tax payers.
The thing about it is, Bush is losing his "just looking out for our best interest" card that he always plays whenever he denies us our rights or invades another country. After Katrina, nobody can give those evil fucks the benefit of the doubt. Personally, I'm surprised he hasn't been assasinated on that alone. BUt there was NO human enemy during Katrina, no Osama or Saddam to blame, and there was NO way to act like it was a surprise rather than their own incompetence and indifference. His polls never have risen above the 40's since then. Pair that with Mark Foley and now this evangelical guy who got caught buying meth off a male hooker (wow, what a story), and the republican party has lost all of its clever voter traps. They stopped being able to claim fiscal responsibility a long time ago.
I think this country is sick of Bush, and that if we do vote for change we can force him to be accountable for his actions and to fix or be punished for them. We need to fucking castrate this guy to let the rest of the World to know that they don't have to bomb the shit out of us to make the world safe again.
I think we got a good chance, but
ITS UP TO ALL OF US TO FIX IT. FUCKING VOTE, AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO.
And personally, I think Bush is a far greater risk to my safety than Kim Jong-Il or Osama Bin Laden. I mean, without Bush, those two don't have much. But with him around, he's like coal in their furnaces.
But to you international kids who aren't too close on American politics, it does look like there is about to be a great power shift.
Topic: Americans it's time to wake up (Read 5220 times)