America the Gullible
For years as a child I was led to believe that this was the greatest country on Earth. I was spoon-fed words like "freedom" and "liberty" and I gobbled them up whole, but honestly, what child wouldn't? From the very beginnings of slavery to the present day clusterfuck in Iraq we have bullshitted ourselves into believing we stand for certain principles that grant us the moral high ground. It is as the late George Carlin said, our founders once told us that all men are created equal; that is unless of course we're talking about Indians, niggers or women.
It seemed a fitting start to a nation that has continually bullshitted itself well into the present. If you think this sort of bullshit has disappeared with time, think again. Today we pride ourselves as defenders of Democracy, supporters of freedom, peace, and prosperity. And yet, as a standard foreign policy we impose punishing sanctions on countries we have disagreements with. Sanctions that often do more damage to the common people rather than the regimes they were designed to deal with. Do sanctions that ultimately lead to the death and starvation of innocent people strike you as promoting peace or prosperity? I would hope not. We say we stand for democracy and free elections, yet in Iran, as well as other countries, we overthrew a democratically elected leader and replaced him with one more befitting our needs. And we wonder why these people resent us, especially now as we label them as "terrorists" and "evil-doers"? We fight for Democracy in Iraq while simultaneously supporting a military dictatorship in Pakistan with our tax dollars. Where is the consistency here? Where are these so-called "principles" that we, as a nation, stand for?
Even past American Presidents we hold in such high regard are complete jokes, a mockery of anything resembling principled integrity. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the President oh so beloved by many Democrats and leftists, ordered the forced internment and relocation of 110,000 Japanese-Americans in 1942. Needless to say this was very illegal and unconstitutional, not to mention morally abhorrent. And yet, we allowed it to happen, and many to this day look back on his presidency with admiration. President Ronald Reagan was someone many would say represents the best of the Republican Party and the conservative movement. And yet, his policies more than tripled the national debt and sent deficit spending to its highest levels since World War II. Some beacon of fiscal conservatism he was. We bullshit ourselves into believing that these men were people to be admired, yet such gaping holes exist that I would think are impossible to ignore, and alas, they are ignored. They are pushed under the rug and these take their place: " . . . But F.D.R. got us out of the great depression!" " . . . But Reagan ended the Cold War!" While there's some (and that is being generous) degree of truth to both these claims, I'd just like to point out that Hitler did some good things during his reign, too. If the Pope were to take a shit on my car windshield, all his accomplishments wouldn't change the fact that he's an asshole, would they? I could say any number of thousands of things about the George W. Bush years, but that would be cliché at this point. President Barack Obama claims to stand for change, (as if we could forget) but as of yet the only "change" he has brought us are hundreds of billions of dollars the government doesn't have, being paid out to companies that don't deserve it, and trillions more to come in deficits. Sounds like more of the same to me. And has anyone bothered to ask where the federal government gets the authority to do any of this? It sure as hell isn't in any Constitution I've ever read. But that's okay right folks? Because it's all well-intentioned, right? Sorry America, but we can't just make it up as we go along.
But this may as well fall on deaf ears, because many a smarter man than I have done this song and dance before, only to be ignored and written off as raving lunatics and nutjobs. And to any who would opt for that, I say, fuck you. Fuck you right up your ignorant, traitorous Republicrat asshole. Fuck you with a big rubber dick. Not everyone is like you, and I hope for the future of this country that both your parties implode, that we may truly be a country to be proud of. America: pull your head out of your ass. Look around you; you are not the beacon of freedom, human rights, peace, and individual liberty that you have always claimed to be. Your leaders are liars and hypocrites and always have been. Your people have a history of bullshitting themselves and being bullshitted and are damn proud of it. Your Constitution at this point might as well be toilet paper, because it sure as hell isn't the rule of law as it is followed. Wake up.
-D.
Tuesday, 24 March 2009 at 1116.