Fiat Lux

So another four years of Smirky McChimp. This time there weren't many reports of voter disenfranchisement. And unless it's discovered that Diebold went and converted hundreds of thousands of votes from Democrat to Republican in the battleground states, then Bush had a leading margin and actually did win.

Rachel tells me that Karl Rove's plan of getting the evangelical Christians out to vote this time was what turned the trick, by putting a ban on gay marriages on the ballot in all of the major battleground states. "Oh, hey, while I'm here to vote against those sinners from being happy, I might as well vote for W." Why is it that people who vote for things like bans on gay marriage are not happy unless they're making everyone else miserable? Banning gay marriage isn't going to make them stop having gay sex, morons. When are these puritanical zealots going to let people live their own lives? Probably never.

Based on voter turnout, and the difference of the popular vote in the millions, I have come to the conclusion that the majority of Americans are fucking morons. Fat, lazy, stupid and willfully ignorant. What the hell happened to the concerned youth voter turnout? You kids really screwed up this time. I hope you like getting drafted for a war you don’t believe in, you apathetic little shits. And don’t even get me started on the fucked up mess called Gen-X, who apparently stayed away in droves this time around. Makes me sick to even be part of the same generation as you.

All you have to do is look at the voting map. Is it any wonder that with the exceptions of Texas and Florida (and they have always been anomalies) the most populous states vote Democrat? What is it about living in densely populated areas that make people choose Democrat over Republican? Better education, access to arts and sciences, more cosmopolitan interaction with people from outside their own closed, sheltered communities. It’s that closed mindset and introverted aspect of America’s heartland that breeds ignorance of the wide world outside their own borders. It’s why a guy from a rich New England town pretending to be a shitkicker good ole boy from Texas can become President.

But you know what? Bush isn’t the real problem. It’s the people with him that are the really dangerous ones. Because Bush on his own gets flustered and unintelligible when he’s not being prompted and coached. No, the real problem lies with people like Cheney, Ashcroft and Rumsfeld. Cheney is the modern day soulless war profiteer. Rumsfeld is the holdover from the old Republican guard who used to be friends with the people that are now supposed to be our enemies. He’s more dangerous than someone with evil intent – he’s completely incompetent. And Ashcroft is a true fascist. He hates the constitution and your civil rights. Just watch what happens now that the GOP took more seats in the house and senate. Watch Patriot Act II get pushed through, and then many more people can find out firsthand what it was like for the Jews in Europe being pushed onto cattle cars. And then there’s the ringleader – Karl Rove, behind the scenes, pulling all the strings. There’s only one positive thing I can say about Rove, which is that he is brilliant at what he does. Unfortunately, the things he does are pure evil.

Now I’m going to invoke Godwin’s law, and make some comparisons:

Karl Rove – Joseph Goebbels
Donald Rumsfeld – Hermann Goering
John Ashcroft – Heinrich Himmler

Dick Cheney could be squeezed into Hermann Goering, since Goering spent the entire war raping Europe of its priceless artwork and treasures. Bush doesn’t resemble anyone in the Nazi high command, because quite frankly he’s too inept to have been any of them, and Hitler was obviously more than a figurehead.

If you think I’m nuts making these comparisons, I suggest doing some research first. This current administration is doing everything in its power – along with a Republican majority in the house, senate and supreme court – to remove your rights and freedoms. And you know what? The majority of Americans are actually buying it, thinking it’s necessary to make us safer. Well guess what? You’re not safer. With the agenda of this administration, more and more people around the world with terrorist leanings now want us all dead. And by continuing down this path, they will keep trying to achieve that goal.

One of the most brilliant statesmen this country has ever seen had this to say about safety:

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Benjamin Franklin

Congratulations, America. You got what you wanted. Now I’m probably going to get a visit from the gestapo just for airing my opinions. I hope you idiots are happy.

I'd like to thank Orcinus for his excellent series of articles on fascism in the current administration. I used to think that this sort of thing couldn't happen again after Huey Long in Louisiana in the 1930s, and especially after WWII. Apparently I was wrong.