Most people as they get older, they get wiser, they have more to lose so they get more conservative. Me, I’m getting more and more liberal. You see, I used to be an idealist. I believed that the system allowed for a fair and balanced amount of discourse and that Americans could argue and discuss their problems in public, air their differences and commit to a fair compromise. I don’t believe that shit anymore.
Our President has a political mandate to change the status-quo, the current state of affairs, that which a generation and a half of Conservative, Republican, Free Market anarchists have inflicted on us, and rolled-back what we had, before the New Deal was gutted. Their policies have eroded our infrastructure, destroyed our economy, corrupted the ideals we stood for, the social compact we developed, all for a buck. Our schools have no money. Our banks have no credit. Our utilities gouge us; we can’t afford electricity or fuel, our water isn’t safe to drink, nor is our food safe to eat. What about terrorism? 9/11 happened on their watch. Are we safer now than before Iraq and Afghanistan? Where is Osama bin Laden? None of these questions have been answered after 8 years of Bush/Cheaney. They had a monopoly, a clean sweep of the three houses of Government with the media, the fourth estate as it were, what normally called the counterpoint to their rhetoric, checked on the facts and made the politicians honest, was a willing co-conspirator, no less than a governmental mouthpiece, a propaganda machine.
They ran on a platform, a recipe of just another four years, more of the same, more of the same shit that hadn’t worked in the previous 8. They lost the election on that platform, and instead of offering real solutions, a counterpoint to “liberal bias” they have spent months looking for ways to tear down this Presidency. They say, “Obama is a socialist, a communist, a terrorist, and worse than that he may not even be American.” Close to 50% of people polled recently in Fruitcake-land North Carolina think either that our Hawaiian born President is a foreign-born national or are undecided as to his origin. 50%?!?!? 8% of these knuckledraggers either didn’t know or were undecided that Hawaii was even a State. These weren’t illegal immigrants, ethnic minorities siphoning off the teat of Public Education. These are racists, bigots, ignoramusses content to prostrate themselves at the fat steaming carcasses of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. And they want us to return them to power?
In the past we have backed off, allowed them to continue their lies and propaganda, but no more. We can’t afford to let them take over our debate just because they screem louder. They have had their turn. Their screeching doomsday calls are falling on deaf ears. Their rants have galvanized support from the left and the center. Obama’s numbers are rising. So is my support for him. He isn’t as liberal as I thought he would be. He spends far too much time listening to the extreme right’s talking points. He should get to the business he was elected for. He has a mandate. Do it.
