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All the Candidates Deserve a Beating Instead of a Vote

by FPS Doug Thu Jan 10th, 2008 at 01:34:44 PM EST

Our world is burning, and the leading candidates of both major political parties in the United States just keep blathering platitudes...

Democrats want to help children. Republicans want to defend the nation.

Hurrah. Whatever.

Our world is burning, and it's time to draft everybody into one big fire brigade, but the candidates just keep blathering platitudes from Oprah or the New Deal or Morning in America.

Our world is burning, and it's too late for pitiful New Year's resolutions about not playing with fire.

It's too late for imbecile macho posturing from Giuliani and Romney and McCain, and it's too late for Hillary and Barack trying to act even more macho than those macho imbeciles.

It's too late for the dishwater populism of Edwards and Huckabee. A bigger slice of the pie won't do the average Joe much good if it all burns up in the door of the oven.

All the candidates deserve a beating instead of a vote.

And even if Dennis Kucinich doesn't deserve the same beating as the rest of them, he still needs to remmber that a bigger slice of the pie won't do the average Joe much good if it all burns up in the door of the oven.

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It's January 10... (none / 0)
It's January 10, and Santa Claus still hasn't come down the chimney.

Only the Absurd can save us!

He believed by virtue of the absurd; for there could be no question of human calculation...


Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.
by FPS Doug on Thu Jan 10th, 2008 at 02:14:37 PM EST
A Panegyric Upon Abraham (none / 0)
He believed by virtue of the absurd; for there could be no question of human calculation...

from A Panegyric Upon Abraham, by Soren Kierkegaard


Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.

by FPS Doug on Thu Jan 10th, 2008 at 02:26:20 PM EST
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Crazies or imbeciles? (none / 0)
Madness is rare in individuals--but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

from Beyond Good and Evil, by Friederich Nietzsche

Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.

by FPS Doug on Thu Jan 10th, 2008 at 08:24:23 PM EST
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I'd like to agree, but I think you're being a little harsh on the Democrats and not harsh enough on the Republicans.  The Democrats all have actual plans out there (even Dennis).  The Republicans platform up to this point is essentially "What He [Bush] Said."  "Oh, yes, and they hate us for our freedom."

A big part of the problem with the campaign on the Dems' side is that they never sit the candidates down to actually discuss issues, even in the debates.  You can find plans if you look at the Dems' websites, but the press is working with the assumption that viewers don't want to watch Edwards talk about the merits of switchgrass vs corn ethanol, or Obama on something else, or Hillary on something else.  The candidates do talk about this stuff, but it's simply not covered.

You can't really blame the candidates for that.  It's simply the world the press has created.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Fri Jan 11th, 2008 at 07:43:57 AM EST
From Johnson to Bush Jr. (none / 0)
Which Democrats are calling for sacrifice from the public? The planet is dying, and the leading candidates don't even go as far as Gore, with his corporate greenwashing. But there are real sacrifices ahead, sacrifices of human lives instead of consumer conveniences, and the leaders both parties are willing to watch any number of people die as long as the corporate consumer machine keeps the party bosses and the rest of the ruling class on top of the pyramid.

As for demonizing Republicans and giving Democrats a pass for being a little better...

Remember Lyndon Johnson? Remember 58,000 Americans and 2,000,000 Vietnamese and Cambodians dying for nothing?  

But Johnson never took a real physical beating for sacrificing all those lives, and Bundy and Rusk and Westmoreland and all the rest of those Democrats lived long and happy lives at the top of the corporate hierarchy.

Question: In the imagination of the American public, in the movies, what happens to rich corporate hustlers who sacrifice lives for personal gain?

Answer: Somebody inevitably beats them to death.

If it's good enough for the collective unconscious, it's good enough for me.

And...

I'm not even talking about a Bourne Supremacy fatal beating, just a moderate, survivable beat-down, more like Rocky than Rambo.




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Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.

by FPS Doug on Fri Jan 11th, 2008 at 10:04:17 AM EST
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