American Idiots

I'm going to spend the next couple of months trying to find my own version of Ohlberman's "Worst Person in the World" and post the related article on Facebook. It shouldn't be hard to find material, as the folks in politics on the right and left are providing quite a bit of it. We have Nazis, witches and gay-bashing on the right. We have rediculous assertions of 'foreign money' and other red herrings from the left. Don't even get me started on the tea-baggers, most of them are just plain crazy. Those of us in the middle just sit back and watch the madness.

Take this one for example:



She really is a nutjob, yet she has 38% support in the polls? Who is saying they will vote for her? Same question, different daffy, how in blue hell does Sharron Angle have 42% - I mean really? I would rather sit down with Beck for lunch than vote for Reid so I do get the None of the Above alternative to a certain extent, but even that only goes so far. Angle? Seriously?

So, watch for my Facebook postings. I'll try and post one daily and I guarantee the affiliated story will be an interesting, and possibly infuriating, one. Feel free to cross-post your own on my wall. It should be fun.

Peace.

The Hoodwinking of America

Ok, its been a while. Yet I can't help but to blog about this one. Last night, I sat next to a nice, older woman at bar of the Tavern of Stow while I had a quick bite to eat. She had the smock and uniform on of the large grocery store chain across the street and had clearly just finished her shift working as a cashier. I joined the conversation she was having with two other folks at the bar regarding, what else, politics of the day. I was surprised to hear that she was a Glenn Beck fan, an Faux News watcher and a big proponent of the Republican agenda. She talked at length about how "that damned Obama" was spending all her money and didn't care about the "regular folk" of America.

Since when did Democrats lose the mantle of the party of the people? Since when did the Republicans, with their yammering on about the Bush tax cuts and their pandering to big business become the champion of the little guy? I mean, seriously.

When I told her that she was putting her cart behind a true horses ass in Beck, letting her know a bit about him, she was shocked. He's just a high-school graduate? But he seems like a professor with his chalk and blackboard! He's never held any position of note other than a media hack? Wow, I thought he must have been one of those guys that tells politicians what to do. Amazing.

Here's an idea, Dems. Tell it like it is. Pull no punches. Hit the nail on the head. All of the applicable hackneyed phrases. The Republicans and their mouthpieces are and they are winning the hearts and minds of the "American People". Stop being afraid of alienating the Right - they aren't coming to the table. There is no opportunity for dialogue with people like Boehner, McConnel and Kantor. Fight back, dammit!

The longer the Dems wait to raise their fists and strike out on their own, the longer more Americans will fall for the claptrap that's being put out there by the Republican B.S. machine and all of their shadowy fake special interest groups. Over60.org? Say the special interest lobby for health plans. Americans for Progress? Say the petroleum lobby. Clean Coal.org? Well, guess that one. All Republican-leaning interests. Here's an idea America, stop getting your political information from one source or listening to 30-second spots that clearly want to spin you in their direction.

Wake up America!