Acidus wrote:
I mean really. This is not about right vs. left.
Oh, LOL, you still think there's anything -- ANYTHING -- too sacred for the average national politician to view through a lens other than, ahem, a political one. I applaud that you've somehow retained one or two shreds of idealism... Of course this is an outrage, but look back over the last ten years or so. It's one outrage after another. One "What are they even talking about?!" after another. One example of utter and complete hypocrisy after another. One "How can *anyone* even think that way!? It doesn't even make the slightest bit of sense! zblergle flargen pzort *head asplode*" after another. I literally can't take it anymore... there's simply no way to wrap a logical mind around the situation in this country without stipulating that huge numbers of people are complete morons and just simple don't know or don't care that their representatives are out and out liars and opportunists. At which point said rational mind decides the only thing to do is bow out gracefully since there's no longer any place for it here and maybe it'd have more fun writing code or reading a nice book. The majority of national politicians -- not to even mention the punditocracy -- now behave, without reflection, without any attempt to spend a few minutes to apply reason or logic, in knee jerk opposition to what they think the other party wants to do. Those 30 people would have voted against ANYTHING proposed by ANY Democrat. I honestly believe that there is no action that could be taken by the president that wouldn't be maligned in some way by the majority of Republicans. He could literally cast down Osama Bin Laden with bolts of lightning and they'd be going batshit insane about him spending his precious time surreptitiously learning the Force and if it's appropriate for the president (and a Nobel Peace Prize Recipient!!!) to have the power to electrocute people with his mind. And I think that while the Democrats are marginally more capable of actually thinking, they either don't realize how utterly useless it is to engage in any such logical endeavor and end up losing when their opponent destroys them on trumped up ideology or else they just end up capitulating without a real fight in the face of a political ideology that's Lovecraftian in it's capacity to drive a man mad. (This is intriguing, actually... I think henceforth I'll refer to the various bleatings, tearful demagoguery and self interested pontificating of the "Right" as Nyarlathotep, the simultaneously singular God and incomprehensibly ramified multitude referred to as the Crawling Chaos -- each time I happen across some screed put out by these mendacious bastards I feel like my brain is trying to search every surface of a 3d fractal for something it can recognize as "thought", whence comes insanity.) Reason is dead. Accountability is dead. Respectful debate on merits is so long dead it's mostly bones. Intellectualism is reviled and god forbid you should contemplate common ground... it's all now disputed territory and each square inch is won or lost in bloody battle (though, as in all wars, mostly it's the average person who suffers). The last time I communicated with a Senators office (Chambliss, I think) I was treated like a fringe nutbag (by the podunk fuckwit responsible for answering phone calls from constituents) for having the temerity to indicate that basic human compassion is a universal Good. Glad that dick isn't "representing" me anymore. Of course, now I live in DC where I don't even get representatives... part of me feels liberated by that. Having no voice means I don't have to worry about having it marginalized and ignored. RE: Calling Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss | 
