Vote Democrat

As we approach the midterm elections I felt a political post was in order.  I doubt there are any Republicans who actively read my blog, but just on the off chance I can convince you, I'll give it a shot.

People traditionally have very short political memories.  So if you are one of those people, let me help you out.

President George W. Bush was a disaster for this country.  As we were attacked on 9/11 partly due to his unwillingness to do his job (remember his record setting vacation count?), he sat there paralyzed with fear, and did nothing.  Minutes after the secret service advised him we were under attack, he finally got up and did something.  He took us into two unnecessary and expensive wars.  Wars he financed by borrowing every penny communist China would agree to lend us.  At the same time he cut taxes for the wealthy (and not just well of; the filthy rich), and deregulated corporations so they could plunder the American people in the most greedy and unethical ways possible (think bankrupting cancer patients, for example).

At the end of his horrific presidency, his only real legacy was the fear he and Cheney sold to the American people, and an economy sliding into the second worst recession our country has ever witnessed.

In any normal country you'd think that the opposition party would win by a landslide, yet still tens of millions of people turned out to vote for old man McCain, and the bimbo tardmonkey he had picked as his running mate.

Our President has had to work very hard to try and put the economy back on track, and all the time he faces Republicans deliberately roadblocking everything he tries to achieve.  From filibuster threats to blocking important government appointees, the Republicans have acted in a despicable way, focused on one goal; to win back control at all costs, without giving a rats ass about ordinary working people of America who suffer as a direct result of their fuck ups.

The Tea Party gained momentum as the new racist front.  The KKK is out of fashion these days, since no one wants to admit freely to being a racist (except the utterly extreme haters).  So those who got mad at Obama because he isn't white, joined a group for the haters, losers, racists, bigots, birthers, and idiots, who just want to hide their real agenda behind a fake one that is more palatable.

It seems like many Americans can get behind the notion of paying less tax and having less government waste, but the reality is the Tea Party and Libertarians don't seem to give a shit about taking actual steps to reduce government waste and help American people.

The elephant in the room in this country is defense spending.  As a nation we are spending almost half of all military spending in the entire world.  That's right, for every dollar spent on the military for every country in the world, our investment is close to 47% of the world military budget.  We have dozens of pointless agencies, over 800,000 people with top secret military clearance, and a military presence in over 150 countries.

When these people talk about small government, and lowering taxes, or cutting social programs, the one thing no one seems to have the balls to campaign for is massive cuts to our military spending.  And until we start thinking realistically about doing this, we are always going to have a problem with balancing the books.

Our priorities are very wrong, and yet despite all this, many Americans are going to go to the polls and vote for Republicans.  These common sense, whiter than white, smiling family men who will cut taxes and government waste and fix our economy.

Of course none of this is really going to work.  Giving Republicans more strength will simply road block Obama for the next couple of years.  The Republicans don't really have any plans to improve our country.  They talk about repealing Obama's laws, pushing for more tax cuts for the wealthy elite, cutting social programs that help Americans get a better life, and returning us to the failures that were the hallmark of the last Republican administration.

Anyone who points out that Republicans caused this problem will be met with a sneer and will be told that we shouldn't live in the past, and that it's now the President's fault.  We shouldn't talk about the real causes of our predicament, we should just blame Obama and chase the failed policies of before.

Sadly we don't have real news networks, our education system isn't designed to make people think, so millions of ignorant Americans will head to that polling station and vote Republican, weakening the government for the next couple of years.

America has so much potential, and could return to a position of world inspiration.  But we are badly off course right now.  We are making life harder than it needs to be.  We risk losing so much we will never get it back.  Until Americans wake up and realize this we are going to be in a lot of trouble.

So I'd like to ask you right now to vote Democrat in these elections.  Let's give Obama a mandate to push for change we so desperately need.  Let's show the Tea Party that we don't like hate, and their stupid rhetoric.  And let's tell Republicans that we won't vote for them until they come up with some new ideas for actually improving this country, rather than listening to them bleating on about Reaganomics and other failed strategies.