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...you are hockey moms, not experts in the affairs of this country. Why do you think that just because you're scared by the news you know what's best for this country? I'm sorry but changing diapers, pouring bowls of cereal, reading books at bedtime, mending cuts and scraps, none of these things increase your aptitude to understand how to fix a broken nation. Oh, wups, I was just condescending, how horrible of me to insert reality and forsake emotion. I'll get to that later.
I'm really tired of hearing about how pleasing this appeal to the commoner is with the public. Of course I'm referring to the Vice Presidential Debate of last night which in which Sarah Palin was rife with these remarks. It seems like every other word was either "maverick" or "hockey mom" or "average joe six-pack" as if the habitual consumption of cheep beer is something to be proud to identify ourselves with. How can we, as a nation in failure and crisis, from out foreign policy, to our economy, all the way to our domestic War on Drugs, sit here and be seduced by the idea that all we need is an "average joe" to make a difference. I've met Average Joe, he's an idiot. I'll be the first to say that I'm not one of this us that Palin is talking to. I'm not one of the estimated 60% of Americans self-deluded and ignorant enough to believe in the historical literalism of the bible. I'm what I like to call educated, but not by an institution, by a motivation to actually know what the ###### I'm talking about that the rest of this nation seems to lack. Can't decide if biblical literalism or the theory of evolution is right for you? How about you actually learn what the theory of evolution is?! Amazing! There is a word for this, autodidact. I'm an autodidact. I love to learn, in my mind it is the ultimate goal of our species that can ensure survival for as long as possible. Learning is how you move forward. You learn from the past and move toward the future armed with what you're learned.
McCain and Palin don't feel this way. They don't believe in education. They don't believe we should question the last 8 years of policy failure and executive blundering perpetrated by the Bush administration on all fronts. They don't want to talk about it because if people start talking about it they'll realize how congruent McCain's politics are with the last 8 years of direction under George Bush. They don't want to talk about what causes global warming. They just want to harp about how we can fix it. But how the hell do you fix a problem that you don't understand?
1+1=4 Right? Wait, what do you mean, "No." How rude! How disrespectful. How condescending! I'm not listening to you!
We really need to grow up as a society and learn to listen to criticism. If one entity criticizes the other in an attempt to make them accountable for their mistakes, to bring them to bear, so that they and others can learn from them then that is progress. So pay attention to the condescension even if you don't like the way it feels and evaluate it for what it's worth. Part of being adult is realizing that the truth hurts. This is how progress is made, by correction. I'm fed up with people talking about how they didn't want to hear condensation from Biden during last night's debate. The McCain/Palin ticket has a lot to learn about this world and so forgive those who don't have the time to beat around the Bush. We've got to change the way we view our place in this universe and it can't happen to soon. The lies and dodges that this ticket gets away with is murder, they are of the utmost importance to the progress of humankind and specifically to the outcome of this election. Because if it is stolen once again by sensationalism, appeal to emotion, and appeal to identity then I give up. The people should know better by now. Anyone can see this by the way the McCain/Palin ticket perpetuates lies. They don't care about learning and correcting their errors because the more grandiose they make them the more riled up we get about them. Take the VP debate for example, yet again Palin quotes Ahmadinejad, saying, "as a leader of Iran, Iran claiming that Israel is, he termed it as, 'a stinking corpse' a country that should 'be wiped off the face of the earth.'" The simplest attempt to verify this can bring you realize that this is not what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. There is no doubt that Iran would cause serious harm to Israel, so why lie about it? To sensationalize and seduce the public into a false sense of confidence in their ticket. They lie, and those lies survive because their audience is drunk with them.
There is an enemy of this ticket that is the harbinger of peace. That enemy is education. They don't want people to think, they don't want people to learn, and they refuse to take steps themselves because if they do they would have to face how many bad decisions we've made to this date based on their anachronistic and ecclesiastic world views that become less and less capable of of dealing with the world we live in.
This isn't about Obama being a savior, it's about Obama being the lesser of two evils. It's about not choosing the same idiotic methodology that is based on ideology that has been un-American since day one. "Commerce with all nations, alliances with none." to quote Thomas Jefferson. Today we use our alliances to leverage our commerce and when the people we exploit and anger build up enough momentum to strike back what do we do? We cry, "How could this have happened?!" I cry, "What did you expect?!". Terrorism is nothing new, we act like the term was invented on 9/11 because as evidenced above, we don't bother to look into history and learn from it. At the very least we need a President that understands this world is not black and white, right and wrong, the kind of "Stay the course" mentality that perpetuates failure. The is a world of cause and effect. And if we don't like the effects of existing on this globe then we should look critically at what steps we've taken to cause them. This is not appeasement. It's realism. We aren't going to kill all the terrorists in this theological War on Terror. And if in some utopian, alternate reality we did manage to kill all the terrorists that isn't going to stop more people from rising up against us when the dogma's of our culture and theirs continue to collide. We need to be smarter than that and it all starts with learning.
I'm really tired of hearing about how pleasing this appeal to the commoner is with the public. Of course I'm referring to the Vice Presidential Debate of last night which in which Sarah Palin was rife with these remarks. It seems like every other word was either "maverick" or "hockey mom" or "average joe six-pack" as if the habitual consumption of cheep beer is something to be proud to identify ourselves with. How can we, as a nation in failure and crisis, from out foreign policy, to our economy, all the way to our domestic War on Drugs, sit here and be seduced by the idea that all we need is an "average joe" to make a difference. I've met Average Joe, he's an idiot. I'll be the first to say that I'm not one of this us that Palin is talking to. I'm not one of the estimated 60% of Americans self-deluded and ignorant enough to believe in the historical literalism of the bible. I'm what I like to call educated, but not by an institution, by a motivation to actually know what the ###### I'm talking about that the rest of this nation seems to lack. Can't decide if biblical literalism or the theory of evolution is right for you? How about you actually learn what the theory of evolution is?! Amazing! There is a word for this, autodidact. I'm an autodidact. I love to learn, in my mind it is the ultimate goal of our species that can ensure survival for as long as possible. Learning is how you move forward. You learn from the past and move toward the future armed with what you're learned.
McCain and Palin don't feel this way. They don't believe in education. They don't believe we should question the last 8 years of policy failure and executive blundering perpetrated by the Bush administration on all fronts. They don't want to talk about it because if people start talking about it they'll realize how congruent McCain's politics are with the last 8 years of direction under George Bush. They don't want to talk about what causes global warming. They just want to harp about how we can fix it. But how the hell do you fix a problem that you don't understand?
1+1=4 Right? Wait, what do you mean, "No." How rude! How disrespectful. How condescending! I'm not listening to you!
We really need to grow up as a society and learn to listen to criticism. If one entity criticizes the other in an attempt to make them accountable for their mistakes, to bring them to bear, so that they and others can learn from them then that is progress. So pay attention to the condescension even if you don't like the way it feels and evaluate it for what it's worth. Part of being adult is realizing that the truth hurts. This is how progress is made, by correction. I'm fed up with people talking about how they didn't want to hear condensation from Biden during last night's debate. The McCain/Palin ticket has a lot to learn about this world and so forgive those who don't have the time to beat around the Bush. We've got to change the way we view our place in this universe and it can't happen to soon. The lies and dodges that this ticket gets away with is murder, they are of the utmost importance to the progress of humankind and specifically to the outcome of this election. Because if it is stolen once again by sensationalism, appeal to emotion, and appeal to identity then I give up. The people should know better by now. Anyone can see this by the way the McCain/Palin ticket perpetuates lies. They don't care about learning and correcting their errors because the more grandiose they make them the more riled up we get about them. Take the VP debate for example, yet again Palin quotes Ahmadinejad, saying, "as a leader of Iran, Iran claiming that Israel is, he termed it as, 'a stinking corpse' a country that should 'be wiped off the face of the earth.'" The simplest attempt to verify this can bring you realize that this is not what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. There is no doubt that Iran would cause serious harm to Israel, so why lie about it? To sensationalize and seduce the public into a false sense of confidence in their ticket. They lie, and those lies survive because their audience is drunk with them.
There is an enemy of this ticket that is the harbinger of peace. That enemy is education. They don't want people to think, they don't want people to learn, and they refuse to take steps themselves because if they do they would have to face how many bad decisions we've made to this date based on their anachronistic and ecclesiastic world views that become less and less capable of of dealing with the world we live in.
This isn't about Obama being a savior, it's about Obama being the lesser of two evils. It's about not choosing the same idiotic methodology that is based on ideology that has been un-American since day one. "Commerce with all nations, alliances with none." to quote Thomas Jefferson. Today we use our alliances to leverage our commerce and when the people we exploit and anger build up enough momentum to strike back what do we do? We cry, "How could this have happened?!" I cry, "What did you expect?!". Terrorism is nothing new, we act like the term was invented on 9/11 because as evidenced above, we don't bother to look into history and learn from it. At the very least we need a President that understands this world is not black and white, right and wrong, the kind of "Stay the course" mentality that perpetuates failure. The is a world of cause and effect. And if we don't like the effects of existing on this globe then we should look critically at what steps we've taken to cause them. This is not appeasement. It's realism. We aren't going to kill all the terrorists in this theological War on Terror. And if in some utopian, alternate reality we did manage to kill all the terrorists that isn't going to stop more people from rising up against us when the dogma's of our culture and theirs continue to collide. We need to be smarter than that and it all starts with learning.
