Pete Dodd Dot Com (.us)

Republicans drive me fucking crazy.  Crazy.  They make me want to strangle kittens.  They are a maddening group of people.  And it’s not because of their actual politics.   I can actually see the appeal of an idealistic republican society that has low taxes, no government intrusion, people doing things for themselves.   I think that would be a fantastic world to live in.   The problem is that as far as I can tell they only want this world to exist for likeminded Christian white people.  And that’s when I ask Arnee to bring the box of kittens in because I have some strangling to do.

All of this chickenshit crying about a mosque being built on ground zero is what currently has me completely pissed off with them as a group of (white) people.  You see dickheads like Glenn Beck crying (and I mean literally crying) on Fox News because the big bad government wants to control everything and all our freedoms are being taken away and Obama is Hitler and soon all white people will be in gas chambers.  But then there are a group of people, a group of AMERICANS, that want to build a place of worship for their imaginary man in the sky (not to be confused with the white people’s imaginary man in the sky because he is, like, totally different) and this group that literally cries about freedoms being taken away now wants to take away this group of brown people’s basic freedoms.

I’m trying to reconcile this in my head but I can’t.   So Obama is taking your freedoms away and the government intruding too much.  Ok, I get it.  I think you’re fucking paranoid, but i get it.   Now there are a group of Muslims that want to build a Mosque near ground zero.  You same people want to take their freedom away and have the government (in this case, the courts) intervene and stop them.

WHAT!??!  WAHHAHHTHAHHTHET?!?!?   Do you not see the goddamn motherfucking hypocrisy here?   I mean for fucks fucking sake.  Really?!?!?

Also, the government is going too far intruding into our lives.  Right?  But also we should pass a constitutional amendment intruding into the lives of gay people.  They shouldn’t be allowed to marry, because that’s just gross, um – I mean because my imaginary man in the sky says it’s some sort of evil.  Evil love.  That’s the trickiest evil of them all!  It fools people into being happy and nice.  Someone grab some whiteout because we have a constitution to amend!

Stop living in fear of everything, republicans.  It’s embarrassing.   There are some Muslims in the world that are hiding out in caves and african villages plotting to kill us.  Yes.  This is a fact.  We should do something about that.   But there are also 100 million+ muslims who aren’t out to kill you.   Thinking they are is the same leap in logic that all christians want to blow up federal buildings because Timothy McVeigh was a christian.  I guess also by that rationale if someone built a christian church in Oklahoma City at the site of that disaster it would be in bad taste.  Right?  RIGHT!?!!?

No, of course not.  Because you aren’t afraid of christians (well, the black ones sing too loud at church, but they seem nice as long as they stay in their cities).

If we are going to debate actual issues, I am cool with you folks.  I think there is an honest dialogue that needs to happen.  Like I said earlier, there is much about conservative principles that I think has merit.   I would love to live in a world that took the best from each party where we didn’t have government or business’s intruding on our personal lives.  I mean, that is the basic philosophical difference between us, right?  Democrats want the government to do everything because we don’t trust corporations and republicans want the private sector to do everything because they don’t trust the government.  And the truth is that we both are probably right, neither the government or private sector is worthy of our trust.  Which is why we should be working together to find what actually works with each and go from there.

But we never actually talk about this shit, do we?  The Republicans are the party of “If Obama wants it we don’t.”  So I guess that ends the dialogue there.  And the democrats are the party of “omg lets have 9000 ideas about one topic and in the end just pass something totally watered down that no one likes.”   Both parties are terrible.  It’s unfortunate.

What is fortunate, however, is that most of it is mostly ceremonial.  I mean I hated Dubya and I like Obama… but really, is my life any different now that dubs is out and Obama is in?  Nope.  I mean, I did get a $10 a week tax cut.  Yeah… I can’t even sell that as my life being any different.  It doesn’t matter.  These assholes cycle themselves in and out and we have republican rule and democratic rule and they do things that they say is going to affect us but it never really does and it just goes on and on.  That’s fine.  That’s how political policy is.  And that’s especially how political policy in America is, the system is designed to make change monumentally slow.  So slow, in fact, that we can go from a dumbfuck like Bush to a “post racial” (gotta love that bullshit term) dude like Obama without it having any affect on our lives other than it giving us a new cast of characters to yell at as we watch fox news/msnbc.

I’m not arguing any of that!  I don’t give a shit if you are conservative.  You shouldn’t give a shit that i’m liberal.   All that I ask is that when it comes to issues that actually affect people…  and these are issues that a president or a congress really have no control over…  that you stop making your decisions based off of goddamn fear.    If you are going to argue for less government interference and more freedom it has to apply to more than Christian white people.  If you don’t see that… your head is planted too far up your own ass for you to be any use to modern society anymore.  It’s time for you to grab some automatic rifles and join some militia in ‘middle america’ and plot to take down the government.  Kinda like a few muslims tried to 9 years ago.  And when you do I’m totally going to protest your church being put in my city.