The main reason I'm writing, however, has nothing to do with me personally, but rather the alarming trend I'm seeing these days, which is the creeping ooze of stupid that is slowly but surely covering our country. It reared its moronic head most recently in the protests stirred up by the right wing over Obama's shocking and flagrant disregard for the sanctity of America's youth by planning on addressing the nation's schools over the White House web site to give a speech about the importance of education, hard work, and staying in school. Apparently conservatives were appalled by the notion that the President of the United States might discuss things like getting a good education with those getting it. The issue seemed to revolve around the after-speech discussion materials where the President asked the children to do such un-American and subversive things as answer the question "What is President Obama asking me to do?" and "What is President Obama inspiring me to do?" He then goes on to require the children to write letters to themselves making pledges as to what they can do to help Obama help them meet their goals. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what the right sees as indoctrination and brainwashing. And they made a big enough stink that schools are offering concerned (ie stupid) parents the option of keeping their children home during that school day so as not to be brainwashed by Obama asking their children to work hard and stay in school.
I wish i could laugh at this. i wish I could mock these people in a way that would have everyone who read the mockery rolling in the aisles and make the recipients of the mockery so ashamed of themselves that they would never show their face in the light of day and would instead crawl off to some uninhabited location where they could spawn their blank slate offspring in peace and teach them only good wholesome things like the fact that dinosaurs didn't really exist and science is only something to use when it helps you make gasoline out of oil. That cannot happen because a) The Duggars have already populated the last open bit of this country and b) these people aren't funny. Of course they ARE--read anything they write or listen to anything they say and you can't help but laugh at the sheer inanity of it. You chuckle at the fractured logic and disjointed scattering of reason that leads them to these conclusions. But that's the problem. Those of us who aren't of that ilk--otherwise known as the ones with brains--have been laughing at these imbeciles for years, while these imbeciles have slowly taken over the country. This creeping ooze of ignorance, anger, fear and suspicion has permeated the country to a point where facts and truth no longer hold sway. These people actually are upset that their children might become part of social change. They might actually (gasp) help bring it about! How dare Obama talk to my children about his progressive agenda? they cry in outrage. When did progressive become a dirty word? Especially at a time in history when everyone admits that things need to change? I was hopeful when Obama was elected. I was hopeful that finally this country had had enough of the backwoods, good ol' boy, ain't had much book-learnin', but hey, I got me a load of horse sense approach to politics and government. I had hoped that after eight years of watching this country get broken almost beyond repair again and again, people were ready and anxious for things to get better. I mean, hell, even our last president's own party couldn't defend him any more! I even kept my hope alive as Obama preached bipartisanship. But my hope is gone. The right has no interest in working in a bipartisan manner. And they have no interest in changing anything. The right is the guy who threw a bunch of silverware into the garbage disposal and turned it on, then bitches at the plumber when he says it needs to be replaced. They would prefer to keep using the same disposal, thank you very much. Just put some chrome on it so it looks like new.
From sabotaging debates on health care, to cooking up a birth certificate scandal, to now suggesting that a speech to school children is somehow a diabolical plan to initiate them into some sort of socialist cadre of mindless drones, the right has shown again and again that all it is interested in is making sure that nothing changes in this country. And it is our fault. We have allowed it to happen because we laughed at them, thinking no-one could ever take these blatant lies and idiotic notions seriously. We had faith in our fellow men, and our fellow men turned out to be gullible, uneducated, fearful, selfish, grasping and easily manipulated. The right has worked on insinuating itself into the minds of a certain part of society. They have ignored the rich and the corporations for the most part because those people are never going to back the left. But they have wormed their way into a part of society very aptly described by Obama during his campaign--those that during times of crisis grab on to their Bibles, their guns and their fear. These are people who do not think things through. They do not test concepts or analyze them. If someone appeals to their gut, or their God, then they must be right. If they warn of socialists coming in and taking what they have worked for, they will believe it, even though by doing so they are actually working against their own best interest. People marching in Tea Parties protesting tax hikes that do not affect them, AND a plan that would actually REDUCE their taxes. But did they take the time to find out what was happening? No. Someone just yelled "HIGHER TAXES" and they flocked like lemmings to a cliff. Public health care won't take away anyones coverage--merely give coverage to those who do not have it. Do they look into it? No, someone just yells "SOCIALISM" and they turn out to fight it, barely any of them realizing the police that help protect their right to protest are a socialistic force. They protest gay marriage due to the damage such a thing could do to them, even though it wouldn't affect them a damn bit. But someone yelled "SIN" and since they're already willing to accept a fairy tale as a blueprint for living their lives, why question the discrimination against a group? I mean, after Jesus was really big on that exclusion thing. And now they've yelled "BRAINWASHING" and these idiots will line up and insist that they be allowed to remove their children from being able to hear a speech by the President. And for some reason we take these people seriously. We give credence to their concerns and adjust accordingly. No-one was able to keep their children from having to listen to Reagan's speech to the school children, and if here was ever a guy who was nothing but a propaganda=spewing puppet, it was him--until Bush Jr came along. But other Presidents have made a speech and no-one blinked. But now, Obama is going to talk, and we've seen that he actually has an effect on people, so the right needs to stir something up. And the meek, unthinking, laughably unaware line up behind and decry the outrage of their children being told to stay in school and work hard.
We need to stop taking these people seriously. We need to laugh at them, no question, but we need to laugh at them TO THEIR FACES. We need to tell them they are idiots, they are morons, and no, their opinion, while they are entitled to it, is not required, nor requested. We need to stop dumbing down our education to allow for the crackpot concept of "teaching the controversy" and "Intelligent design". Let me tell you what the controversy is--evidence supports science, your faith wants it to be something else. Guess what should win in a school? Yep--the evidence. You don't like it, tough. You think that offering health care to everyone, that treating all people with dignity and respect is socialism? Good for you. Duly noted. Now please stand aside while we fix the crappy system you broke. You think being gay is a sin and shouldn't be allowed to enter into the sacrament of marriage under any circumstance? Thanks for letting us know. Now if you don't mind, we have a country to yank out of the 19th century. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but that doesn't mean every opinion is entitled to consideration. And when the opinions are come to without any kind of reason, rationality, or logic, then they should not be allowed to influence the actions of people who are trying to change what is broken. You want to live with a busted garbage disposal, you go right ahead. The rest of us would like the plumber to o his job. Pond in 2012--The Laughing Elite.
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