I’m back in shopping mall this week for a variety of reasons. Had some medical stuff done, did some stuff related to the S.O. Permanent Residence Card, and checked on my house.
I also got to sit through rounds of American political commercials as the clock ticks down to the Alabama primary on March 1st.
Take for example this hum dinger of a commercial, designed to appeal to the most stupid among Alabama citizenry.
Yea, I’ll bet you approved this message, you bible banging freak. Where were your Christian principles when the governor of Alabama was fucking his own citizens out of health insurance?
Christians persecuted? Not in Shopping Mall I can assure you. Just drive up and down Whitesburg Drive. Count the number of churches and note their size. Nobody is getting persecuted here-unless they are not Christian.
We’ll skip the number of invocations of the holy of holies, the 2nd Amendment. My pork loving Senator is running them every hour on the hour.
Take this worthless piece of advertising.
Fuck you fat boy! If I didn’t hate Shelby before-this commercial gave me a good reason to. No one ever said prayer would not help-they said that it also must be accompanied by actions, like limiting the ability of wackos to get guns they have no business having.
This is, without a doubt, the most debased election in America that I have seen in my adult life. Trump? Cruz? Rubio? Heirs to the mantles of great Presidents? Even the Democratic side lacks stature-to our shame. (But they are at least not near as extreme as the current Republican front runners).
How did we get to this state of affairs?
It did not just happen overnight. It came with preparation. It took a lot of dumbing down of America, facilitated by guys like this asshole and jerks like this man along with not so dearly departed Breitbart, all working in concert with Fox News to foster a feeling of disgruntlement and fear. They orchestrated the conservative reaction to the election of President Obama,doing the bidding of wealthy patrons like the Koch Brothers who feel that God gave them some sort of “right” to debase the country. Over time it became a self reinforcing universe, where facts became irrelevant and discussion became impossible.
“Trump is something that could not happen in a nation that could read. This is the full-flower of post-literate politics. There are still individual Americans who can read, a fact for which writers should say daily prayers of gratitude. There are even communities of sort, and not only ladies’ pinot parties loosely organized around ’50 Shades of Grey. Conservatives are great readers, which is why the overwhelmingly left-leaning world of New York City publishing constantly is looking forward to the next offering from Mark Levin or Bill O’Reilly, whose works produce literary profit sufficient to subsidize the careers of any number of poets and high-minded novelists. But we are not a nation that reads, or a nation that shares a living tradition of serious contemporary literature, fiction or nonfiction.”
Williamson continues, pointing to the devolving literary habits of Americans over time. “The American Founders,” he writes, “could have a conversation among themselves because they had in the main all consumed the same library of Greek and Roman classics, British and Continental literature ranging from fiction to political economy, legal literature, and the like. This did not ensure agreement or like-mindedness…What it ensured was literate and enlightened argument.” Nothing to disagree with there. But that “enlightened” culture died a long time ago, and it was in any case rooted in plunder and oppression.
This is the world that Breitbart, worthless slime he, and his ilk created. Now they are angry they cannot control the creatures they created.
“In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.”-Napoleon Bonaparte.