re: #443 OldLineTexan

helped

Actually, no.

Here’s the reality: The state I live in has been absolutely rock-solid Democrat territory for generations. We had a Repub gov for one term, that was it.

I voted for Bush in 2004 because I thought it was the right thing to do, though it brought Bush not one iota of advantage as far as the Electoral College is concerned. I blasted Bush when he was wrong and supported him when he was right, and nearly got disowned by my moonbat family for my pains.

I’ve disliked McCain for years, and Palin was - for me - an insult to the American voter. “Let’s see if I can pander to the worst elements of the GOP, because I’m a maverick, my poll numbers suck, and what the hell, she winked at me in our first interview - the old guy almost stood at attention.” It was a paltry move by a goofy old man, and it backfired BIG TIME.

And so I held my nose and voted for Obama. And I’ll be darned if I can see where all the screeching and shouting about “tyranny” and “we’re all gonna lose our guns/rights/minds/fortunes” is coming from, except that Beck and Coulter and Rush and Ron Paul and Alex Jones and all the other opportunistic shriekers are stirring the shit for all they’re worth and cleaning up in the process. I have zero respect for that.

And if I’m wrong I’ll eat that tricorne with mustard on it. But unless the right goes completely insane and starts a civil war, I’m betting my life, my property and my sacred honor that America will still be America in four or eight years, and we’ll get a new set of opportunists to screw us from the other end for a while.

Cynical? You betcha. I’m older than dirt and I’ve been on the merry-go-round for more years than Noah spent days and nights on the ark.

I’m a fan of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, John le Carr and Rabelais, and you can’t read those guys for long and not realize that we’re on a swinging pendulum circling a circus of clowns and mountebanks, with nothing but ships full of fools on the horizon, and only our humor to keep us from falling into Poe’s pit.

To conclude, a poem:

Be Angry At The Sun
Robinson Jeffers

That public men publish falsehoods
Is nothing new. That America must accept
Like the historical republics corruption and empire
Has been known for years.

Be angry at the sun for setting
If these things anger you. Watch the wheel slope and turn,
They are all bound on the wheel, these people, those warriors.
This republic, Europe, Asia.

Observe them gesticulating,
Observe them going down. The gang serves lies, the passionate
Man plays his part; the cold passion for truth
Hunts in no pack.

You are not Catullus, you know,
To lampoon these crude sketches of Caesar. You are far
From Dante’s feet, but even farther from his dirty
Political hatreds.

Let boys want pleasure, and men
Struggle for power, and women perhaps for fame,
And the servile to serve a Leader and the dupes to be duped.
Yours is not theirs.