A short while ago, someone accused me of being no better than the Vichy government of France, just because I don\u2019t agree with his morbid, thumbsucking, navel-gazing view of how things are going to progress from this point forward. That\u2019s a rather heinous thing to say about someone, especially when it\u2019s someone you don\u2019t know at all and you\u2019re just pissed off because you can\u2019t have YOUR way in politics.<\/p>\n
We all have to remember that there is no perfect candidate for office, and particularly no perfect candidate for the office of President of the USA. There are only those who may be very harmful and those who are far less likely to be harmful to this country in general. <\/p>\n
No one who gets elected to that office has ever been a perfect human being. George Washington was as much a philanderer as FDR, Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ, but when he could have said \u201cOkay, I\u2019ll be the King\u201d, instead, he said, \u201cN-O, no. No kingship.\u201d Andrew Jackson was an abrasive, obnoxious, stubborn soldier who opened up the White House to his friends at some point and turned it into party central. I don\u2019t know if it was the 19th century version of Animal House, because I wasn\u2019t there. He sent the Eastern aboriginal tribes on a long, arduous trek westward so that their territory could be used by settlers. He also left his presidency with a surplus in Treasury deposits, something we no longer see. <\/p>\n
We\u2019ve had both brilliant people and utterly dimwitted morons in that office on a recurring basis. Who was worse? Martin van Buren or Franklin Pierce? Under Van Buren, Jackson\u2019s Treasury surplus became a scandalous default debt by the USA. Pierce spent more money redecorating the White House than doing anything else. Grant\u2019s loyalty to people he chose for his cabinet made him unwilling to remove ineffective people, with the result that he was blamed for the post-war economic depression that started in Europe and spilled over into the United States. And I would not want to be remembered the way Herbert Hoover is. He said \u2018Everything is just fine\u2019 and went fishing.** And when the stock market collapsed, he got blamed for it, just like Bush, Jr. still gets blamed by libretards for things he had no part in causing, and that includes the financial mess of 2009 and after. That mess was predicted several years before by a wide group of financial experts, and if anything, it started with Clinton\u2019s massive overspending, revoking the Glass-Steagall act, and moving money out of funds that should never have been touched. It may even have started with Jimmy Carter\u2019s complete incompetence in office. **(Yes, Hondo, I\u2019m summarizing.) I still think he\u2019s the worst, ever, although you may disagree with my view.<\/p>\n
Are we sliding into Dystopia because we have a candidate who is a loud-mouthed, abrasive, opportunistic boor who wants his name on the buildings he puts up everywhere? Is it because the only other candidates are 1) – a lame-assed, incompetent moron who has never held a real job, had no idea where money comes from, wants to tax you at 90% if you have more than two coins to rub together, and thinks bread lines are wonderful because then the poor can have bread, instead of only the rich having bread; and 2) \u2013 a sleazy cow who lies like a Persian rug and is only in this for herself, and to get that slimeball she\u2019s married to, back into the White House? <\/p>\n
No. We are not sliding anywhere. If you don\u2019t understand the term \u2018Dystopia\u2019, then watch \u2018Soylent Green\u2019. It\u2019s far closer to Dystopia than \u2018Hunger Games\u2019 or the \u2018Insurgent\u2019 series of movies. It is a society, as in Heinlein\u2019s \u2018Coventry\u2019 stories, so degraded and separated from the rest of society that it\u2019s like a terrarium. Does anyone in the City in \u2018Hunger Games\u2019 ever pay attention to the infrastructure? Are there people in \u2018Purge\u2019 who make repairs to the power grid after a severe storm? What do they do when their bully pulpit is hit by severe flooding? Where do they get their groceries and clothing? Do they go steal that stuff some place? Inside those walls, these stories imply that the inhabitants have nothing to do but torment the poor souls who are dumb enough to wander into their clutches, as in \u2018Hunger Games\u2019, \u2018Purge\u2019 and the Insurgent series. <\/p>\n
\u2018Soylent Green\u2019 is closer to dystopian reality than those others. The place is a foaming dictatorship, which no one dares disturb, and is more corrupt than anything except Venezuela in present-day politics. In North Korea, the epitome of Dystopia at its finest, the dictatorship might just execute you and make you dig your own grave, or turn you into protein bars, or put you into some sort of murderous contest, such as \u2018The Running Man\u2019 and \u2018Hunger Games\u2019, or physically expel you into the Wild, which happens in \u2018If This Goes On — \u2019 (Heinlein).<\/p>\n
Outside the city, away from that closed environment seething with an unseen underworld of disease, depravity, and degradation, the world is moving along just fine. The city itself is a somewhat murderous version of a terrarium, and when the food, electricity, clean water, sanitation, and medicine run out \u2013 when the lights go out — what happens? Wharf rats the size of adult beavers emerge from alleys and sewers, enormous cockroaches scurry across streets and sidewalks, scavengers and predators of every sort come out of hiding to prey on those unfortunate enough to be out after dark. You can find all of that over in Fatty Kim da T\u2019ird\u2019s little shithole paradise. And remember: on that map of the World At Night, Norkiland is one place with NO LIGHTS ON.<\/p>\n
Back to the real world: No, we are not facing a long, slow slide into Dystopia, no matter how morbid some people may feel about it. This disruptive cycle of political unrest and antisocial misbehavior has been going on, at least since the 1960s, maybe even the mid-1950s. It is NOT new. I saw it in the 1960s and 1970s, as did many other people who comment here regularly. It was made worse by trusted reporters like Walter Cronkite, once titled \u2018the most trusted journalist in America\u2019, who lied his ass off about Vietnam and finally admitted to doing that some time later. Because of him, and people who are even worse than he was, journalism has become the equivalent of the Soviets\u2019 official publication, Pravda. You can\u2019t believe anything the press says any more. <\/p>\n
The trajectory for that horseshit has gone as far to the left as it can go. The beginning of the end of this asinine crap starts with the elections this Fall. No matter who gets elected in the Fall, the swing of the pendulum away from the left is going to happen whether the libretards and leftnuts like it or not. Their arguments are worn out, tiresome, and frequently just plain ridiculous, meant only to point the finger away from them and their blatant, transparent hypocrisy. They may riot, burn flags, block people from buildings, throw things and scream loudly, but all they do is drive reasoning people to the opposite side of the political spectrum. They have had their day.<\/p>\n
The events of the past four years alone, all of which have been reported fairly accurately in various resources, have snapped people out of the comas they have been living in, despite various attempts by Social Justice Moron Howler Monkeys* to alter their reality. (*HT to Nicki for that.) Destructive public rampages, screaming and howling disruptions at meetings, and mass criminal activities do have an effect on people.<\/p>\n
There has been civil unrest lately in Azerbaijan (where???), which is one of Putin\u2019s major shipping routes. It\u2019s not going to stop until it stops on its own. And if any of that unrest becomes a direct threat to us, as has the Middle East, we cannot afford to just curl up in a corner and let it trample us, no matter which direction it comes from. Is this really pertinent?? Yes, it can spread to other Central Asian nations like Kyrgyzstan, which is currently quietly moving along. Check the news on Central Asia: it\u2019s starting up there, because they are broke. If civil war does not erupt in Venezuela, I will be surprised. <\/p>\n
No one wants warfare or slaughter. NO ONE. But peace comes at a price and we all know it. There is no such thing as real peacetime. If you look back through REAL history, there are only bouts of peace interspersed through constant warfare. This is what needs to be taught to children who may face it in the future as adults, not the predigested pablum that they\u2019re getting at present.<\/p>\n
Now we are facing the elections in November. Whether or not you like Trump as the GOPer candidate is immaterial. He\u2019s a butthead and a loudmouth and a grandstanding SOB, but so what? He flipflops. He\u2019s opportunistic. He makes faux pas. He\u2019s a boor. What politician has not done that, especially during this campaign season? <\/p>\n
The alternatives are the crapweasel in a pantsuit and that rancid, badly aging, out-of-touch Bernout. I really do think both of them would curl up in a tight ball, cover their heads, and let whatever happen, as long as either one of them gets to sit on top of the pile of ruin when it\u2019s all over. <\/p>\n
Those are your choices. At this point, it appears that shrillary might have the jackass by its tail. It also appears that the Bernout will not give up his place in line. I know \u2013 there are others from alternate parties, too. I mean, where the hell is that Commie bitch Angela Davis when you need her and her big mouth? <\/p>\n
I do not care who you vote for. I do care that you vote. You may not like the choices. I don\u2019t. This is one time when, no matter how much you detest someone and you have to hold your nose to vote or stock up on Pepto Bismol, you should still go and vote. <\/p>\n
However, if you just throw up your hands and go sulk in a corner instead of going to the polls to vote come November, and someone worse than Trump gets the job, then what are you going to do? <\/p>\n
Do NOT come complaining to me about it Do not expect me to listen to you, either. <\/p>\n
You had your chance. You let the other guys win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"