Rant on American Republicanism

Why do people get involved with or have any interest in politics? Because they're interested in the society at large and how that beast might transform, thus making our lives better or worse. I think we can establish that changing the lives of everyone in an ENTIRE SOCIETY is pretty important. Even if you think the man on the telly in the suit and tie is boring, you really do care what he has to say even if you think you don't. Besides Political inaction is ethically troublesome. Ever hear the story of the man who watched all his neighbours being taken away whilst he watched idly as he and his friends did nothing? They were gradually taken away with no one to give them a voice, until finally he too was taken away and there was no one to speak for him. There is NO WAY that you can not be involved in largescale political actions, your abstaining from them has it owns influence, your inaction gives somebody else power. But of course that's what it comes down to. Most of us are keen to give away power to anyone who is willing to take it. As a species we seem largely adverse to responsibility. The worst attrocities in our collective history have come about as a result of our implicit accepting of what the powers tell us. It is this that led to the wide scale acceptance of dictators such as Hitler and Stalin. Why question Adolf's logic that all the nations problems will be solved by the genocide of an entire species? Because to do so would involve difficult questions, expose lies and force you to confront facts. And in order to ask difficult questions we'd have to think, and we wouldn't dare go to that trouble would we! 


It is this complete and brazen refusal to accept the facts that so disturbs me in America today. Almost half of the country supports a political party that is repeatedly exposed as lying and manipulative to its own people. In the last few days Barack Obama has released his official birth certificate to prove that he was born within in the United States. Apparently 47% of Republicans attest to believing he wasn't! Donald Trump (who seems to be heading towards an attempt at presidential candidacy) has done a lot to rile up this movement. This is a man who says America should stop "the baby stuff" and take the oil in Libya. A man who is admitted to not wanting to touch the poor or middle class for fear of germs and thinks that he can order the chinese to stop manipulating currency! Donald Trump appears to be some kind of fake tanned satanic disney figure. People like he and Sarah Palin make an unholy Mickey and Minnie Mouse combo marching us gallantly towards our apocalytic death. Or at least in my nightmares anyway... They seem so predictable and stupid that they were made for the 2D screen, so utterly flat is their intelligence and character depth. 

May I remind you that mosts republicans don't believe in evolution, a simple and overwhelmingly supported fact that only has a very old book that they point to as disproving it. In Texas there is a museum that features dinosaurs and humans interacting at the same time, such blatant refusal to accept the easily provable is genuinely terrifying. The greatest problem however is that Republicans seem to fall into that category of people who don't seem to have interest in politics, which is a bit of a problem when you're dealing with... politics. Trump has admitted just like Palin that he "he doesn't know anything about politics" which is worrying when I saw that a CNN poll put Trump and Palin as the second and third most popular selections amongst republicans, hmmmmmm. It's a bit like Arsene Wenger becoming a football manager but admitting he doesn't real know how the game is played. Or a Doctor telling you he doesn't know too much about medicines - i.e fucking retarded. 

Trump describes China as an "enemy" who "cheats" and "wants to take us over" Everything he supports is done in the same aggressive manner as if repeatedly headbutting through all your obstacles is going to save your country, when in reality you just end up with a sore head. This anti-intellectualism has been taking place in America for far too long. What happens when you have an uneducated, unthinking populace is that you then get people voting for someone that best represents those constituents. It's ludicrous to think that one of the reasons Obama is so abhorbed by many of the republican base is because he went to Harvard. But I'm surprised that the media hasn't alluded to the fact that Obama has so virilently been outcast by many Americans because of racism. Gun sales shot up exponentially around the south when Barack Obama came into power, whilst fundamentalist christians (thus republicans) have called his arrival as the return of the antichrist before the coming apocalypse because as the bible says he would be a "charismatic leader" This is so much a facepalm moment that I feel like my hand will push through my face and into my skull. Lets be reminded that this is the same south that is still so predominately white and  hungover from losing their right to keep slaves. It's fine if these are people that don't want to get involved in politics, but for the sake of your country and the whole world don't go into taking responsibility without knowing what you're doing. Or we'll get more people running for office that will shout slogans like Palin recently did with "We'll put a boot in your ass its the American way!" Don't forget my darling Sarah that if you keep booting your way through the asses of your enemy, you'll not only have a sore foot but you'll be covered in shit.