About a year and a half ago (right after the big battle over the Health Care Bill), I wound up putting this site on hiatus due to the fact that I was so busy I didn’t know which way was up. It proved to be a wise choice as my schedule (work-related, artistically and otherwise) would have only allowed for sporadic and undoubtedly half-baked postings (not that we haven’t had those before) and it was best, I determined, to remove my voice from the cacophany.
But now we are heading into the campaign season and the electoral stakes- while perilously high before- are now even higher. The slate of goons lining up to try and knock Barack Obama off his perch is so ominous, so terrifyingly extreme as to make George W. Bush look like a short-panted Boy Scout. And a bright one, at that.
So in the coming months, I thought it best to re-open the dialogue and see if we can generate a little action heading into 2012. This is shaping up to be the ugliest campaign of all time and we’re going to need to contribute all we can to keep the slander, obfuscations and downright lies from becoming the accepted wisdom of the electorate.
My esteem for said electorate, by the way, is at an all-time low. Far from getting smarter, the folks who actually vote in this land of R's have become even more dimwitted. They can no longer seem to tell the difference between truth and complete and utter hokum. Not that they have much opportunity to be educated. From a news-gathering perspective, the media is a disaster. As a result, the American people have consuming the journalistic equivalent of shit sandwiches for the past decade and the current crop of GOoPers are asking the folks if they’d like the next batch of crapwiches to be toasted or oven-baked and folks are actually lining up to get more.
Well, we can’t have that, can we? Time to expose the b.s., call out the liars and carnival barkers among us and, most of all, underline the terrifying messages that are currently being disseminated to the masses for the blood-curdling bullshit that they are.
Here’s truth number one: The Republicans learned NOTHING from the George W. Bush years. They are gearing up to double-down on every bad idea he and his pack of cronies ever had. For every step forward we have taken in the past three years, the current crop of GOP candidates is ready to take us ten steps back.
And if that doesn’t scare you….brother, you’re just not paying attention.
But now we are heading into the campaign season and the electoral stakes- while perilously high before- are now even higher. The slate of goons lining up to try and knock Barack Obama off his perch is so ominous, so terrifyingly extreme as to make George W. Bush look like a short-panted Boy Scout. And a bright one, at that.
So in the coming months, I thought it best to re-open the dialogue and see if we can generate a little action heading into 2012. This is shaping up to be the ugliest campaign of all time and we’re going to need to contribute all we can to keep the slander, obfuscations and downright lies from becoming the accepted wisdom of the electorate.
My esteem for said electorate, by the way, is at an all-time low. Far from getting smarter, the folks who actually vote in this land of R's have become even more dimwitted. They can no longer seem to tell the difference between truth and complete and utter hokum. Not that they have much opportunity to be educated. From a news-gathering perspective, the media is a disaster. As a result, the American people have consuming the journalistic equivalent of shit sandwiches for the past decade and the current crop of GOoPers are asking the folks if they’d like the next batch of crapwiches to be toasted or oven-baked and folks are actually lining up to get more.
Well, we can’t have that, can we? Time to expose the b.s., call out the liars and carnival barkers among us and, most of all, underline the terrifying messages that are currently being disseminated to the masses for the blood-curdling bullshit that they are.
Here’s truth number one: The Republicans learned NOTHING from the George W. Bush years. They are gearing up to double-down on every bad idea he and his pack of cronies ever had. For every step forward we have taken in the past three years, the current crop of GOP candidates is ready to take us ten steps back.
And if that doesn’t scare you….brother, you’re just not paying attention.
1 comment:
Sorry to disagree with you pal, but the Republicans learned a lot from the Bush years.
Spin it hard, spin it often, and the people will buy it.
It worked wonders for Walker and even Emanuel took a page out of the Repubes yearbook.
Here's hoping that the Unions will come back even stronger and defeat both of these assholes. Because, quite frankly, whether toasted or served on ciabatta bread, both those fellows serve up a mighty nasty shit sammie.
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