CONSERVATIVE? I THINK NOT.
The Republican Party now running on a platform of fiscal responsibility against Democrats would be extraordinarily laughable, were it not for the dire economic state they have jettisoned our country into during the majority of the last decade. It makes me think of the belligerent, dime-a-dozen rock band trashing the hotel room, then pointing accusatory fingers the next day at the humble janitor trying to clean up their mess.
In fact, the mere association these reckless, shameless, life-long civilian chicken hawk war mongers whose war experience amounts to chess-playing at yacht clubs, and retired beer bonging frat boys make with the word 'conservative' puts the very definition of the word in serious question (that is, assuming that it hadn't always been in question since the day they started using it).
Whether one considers the unnecessary and shameful abuse of power and endangerment of the U.S. military in Iraq and subsequent empowerment of enemy dictatorships in Iran and North Korea, or the irresponsible spending and reckless economic policies geared to benefit the well-to-do which have nearly brought America to her knees, or even the shameful, condescending manner in which right-wing politicians blatantly lie to the semi-honest, hardworking people who blindly support them because of their loaded, xenophobic, homophobic, sacrilegious-religious rhetoric, it's really very difficult to argue that there's anything conservative about the GOP.
Regardless of the phony strength they try to project through their callousness and ignorance they seem to be so proud of, the fact that Republicans are marching back into power to continue to wreak the havoc and damage they begun a long time ago in the time of Nixon, and got the ball rolling for during the Bush-Cheney era is terrifying. And the fact that voters forgot or turned a blind-eye to that fact and are ready to send them back into power is more disheartening than most things I can remember in my lifetime.
Woe unto us, America.
Woe unto the world.
The Republican Party now running on a platform of fiscal responsibility against Democrats would be extraordinarily laughable, were it not for the dire economic state they have jettisoned our country into during the majority of the last decade. It makes me think of the belligerent, dime-a-dozen rock band trashing the hotel room, then pointing accusatory fingers the next day at the humble janitor trying to clean up their mess.
In fact, the mere association these reckless, shameless, life-long civilian chicken hawk war mongers whose war experience amounts to chess-playing at yacht clubs, and retired beer bonging frat boys make with the word 'conservative' puts the very definition of the word in serious question (that is, assuming that it hadn't always been in question since the day they started using it).
Whether one considers the unnecessary and shameful abuse of power and endangerment of the U.S. military in Iraq and subsequent empowerment of enemy dictatorships in Iran and North Korea, or the irresponsible spending and reckless economic policies geared to benefit the well-to-do which have nearly brought America to her knees, or even the shameful, condescending manner in which right-wing politicians blatantly lie to the semi-honest, hardworking people who blindly support them because of their loaded, xenophobic, homophobic, sacrilegious-religious rhetoric, it's really very difficult to argue that there's anything conservative about the GOP.
Regardless of the phony strength they try to project through their callousness and ignorance they seem to be so proud of, the fact that Republicans are marching back into power to continue to wreak the havoc and damage they begun a long time ago in the time of Nixon, and got the ball rolling for during the Bush-Cheney era is terrifying. And the fact that voters forgot or turned a blind-eye to that fact and are ready to send them back into power is more disheartening than most things I can remember in my lifetime.
Woe unto us, America.
Woe unto the world.