I am way into politics. I sway back and forth between the two main parties, so I guess I'm a centrist. I'm mostly a social liberal/fiscal conservative, but some of my views skew toward the libertarian agenda. For instance, and the folks at my church probably wouldn't dig this, I believe we should legalize, regulate, and tax narcotics and prostitution. We should then focus on cleaning up the messes the war on drugs has created, lay off and retrain the thousands who earn their living from it, and start spending those billions of dollars saved on awareness and prevention and counseling and treatment for addicts. I don't smoke it any more because it makes me go crazy, but why not create government-owned pot farms? Put the best growers in charge of it. We know where they are. They're all in jail. Most pot is already grown on government land anyway. It would be alot safer, there would be no need for dealers and pimps carrying guns to protect turf, and we'd pay off the national debt in six months. Of course this will never happen. One reason is that Americans don't know what's really going on, and what's more they are being kept that way, and what's even worse than that is that they don't even give a shit! I was trying to tell a friend this the other day, and she said "I don't want to know." Pretty scary stuff. And she's in the majority. Here's George Carlin putting my feelings into words most succinctly...
I also think we need to revoke all the subsidies to the unbelievably rich that Bush's regime has instituted. We can't afford them, and they don't NEED them. One of the most dangerous things we have allowed these bastards to do is change the FCC rules regarding media conglomerates only being allowed to own a certain amount of media outlets. Now a very small number of rich men control all of the ways we are able to get information. They choose what we hear and see. This is the same way Hitler got control of Germany. It is happening again. If people would bear in mind that everything they are seeing on TV and hearing on radio is probably some form of propaganda, they might very well look at it in a very different way. I hope and pray this will happen, because that is most certainly the case. Another tactic they love to employ is sensationalist non-journalism. They do 24 hour vomit-casts about Britney Spews and OJ Scumson and we tune in and tune out all of the things that are really going on in this wholly-owned-and-operated world, staring at the screen like the zombies we are...
Here's a game to play to let out your stress over this issue...
I also don't think we should be in Iraq. I'm pretty firmly convinced we are only over there to protect the oil supply and to make Bush, Cheney, and their cigar-chomping cronies a boatload of money. (refer to graphic courtesy of "America is Brainwashed")
Kind of like Viet Nam, a war that isn't meant to be won, only maintained at all costs. And guess who's bearing the costs? I agree we would have had to deal with Saddam sooner or later and it was good to do it while he was still weakened. Also something like 5,000 children a month were dying under the sanction regime that was in place as Saddam was keeping all the oil-for-food money for himself. This was of course an intolerable situation which had to come to an end. I just wish we'd sent in a seal team to take him out and make it look like an accident. Meanwhile, the very real fact of the matter is that we are there now. And while I believe this is indeed acting as an "asshole magnet," thereby perhaps keeping the Islamic Nutjobs from attacking us here, it seems to be a bit too powerful... It has become Al-Quaeda's biggest single recruiting tool. Fortunately, the "surge" seems to be working. We aren't hearing about hundreds of people being killed in one day anymore. It's just a shame about the thousands who have already been killed. But I guess they didn't really matter. (not Rich, not White) I'm not even sure that we are not behind some of the attacks designed to foment sectarian violence. Do you remember hearing about British commandos being captured apparently attempting a terrorist-type bombing while costumed in the local garb? The British then sent in troops to bulldoze the jail where they were being held before the authorities could get any information out of them. Doesn't this make anyone else's ears perk up? The REALLY scary thing is that now that Iraq seems to be basically pacified, the Neocon machine needs someplace else to operate to keep the rapidly-devaluating dollars coming in, so its next step is to attack Iran. They've been carefully warming the population up to the idea for several years now via their various propaganda outlets. (the Murdoch empire) I know I have been trained to hate them. How about you? Even the networks and other major news outlets seem to be carrying the Kool-aid. Iran's population is two-and-a-half times that of Iraq, and they are much better-organized and several times crazier. The Machine should be able to draw this one out for decades. I do realize that our entire economy revolves around the internal combustion engine, and the stability of the oil supply in the near term must be protected. This is the real reason we are there. (Just ask Alan Greenspan.) I also believe that this dependence on petroleum products must come to an end, and the sooner the better. The only problem is with the rich maggots whose pockets George Bush lives in that are making an obscene fortune from the oil industry. Also, electric cars don't require any maintenance. The "big three" are therefore in no hurry to break us of our dependence on black gold either, even though it is apparently destroying the planet. But Mr. Murdoch's all-seeing, all-knowing, all-distorting media machine drums out the message hour after hour, day after day, that this isn't true. I suspect that the real reason for this is that if we ever own up to the fact that global warming is the result of vehicle emissions, we shall be exposing ourselves (the USA) to an unbelievable torrent of lawsuits, because we in fact have done the dragon's share of the polluting over the last century. Here's a video you might find interesting called "Who killed the electric car..."
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