Waking up to Obama Wednesday, January 04, 2012
I went to
sleep and woke up this morning to the Iowa Caucuses, a relentless reminder of
not how much choice we actually have in the upcoming election, but how little a
field of choice we have.
On one
side, we have President Obama – whose biggest contribution to
Instead of
socialized medicine, he’s given us a new tax.
Instead of
tax cuts for the middle class, he’s imposed new fees on potential home owners.
But he did
manage to repeal “Don’t ask; don’t tell,” which may or may not make everybody
happy, knowing everybody else’s private business.
On the
other side of the Iowa Caucuses, we get GOP operatives trying to dispel the
influence of the most extreme elements of American society, making it seem as
if the Tea Party and the Christian Right have some value to those who would
seek more middle ground.
The truth is
these groups are changing what “Middle” means so that the middle we see today
would have been far right or far left a few decades ago, and so that the
survivors of the caucus can pretend like they are reasonable people when reason
went out the window long ago.
The old
adage of “least of evils,” comes to mind, but is hardly a comfort for anyone
who still maintains that society should represent all of the people and not
some group of fanatics who wants to set up a system of government that tells us
who we can sleep with, who has a right to live in America, and whether or not
science will get taught in our schools rather than some whacko theory coming
out of some questionable Biblical verse.
Who do you
vote for when the Democratic candidate is in bed with the banks and the CIA,
and the Republican candidates are in bed with God?
The stench
on both sides is so bad, it is impossible for me to hold my nose and vote for
any of them – which serves their purposes just as well as if I vote for one
side or another.
When you
have no choice, you lose your right to vote just as effectively as poll tests
or police dogs.
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