Thursday, October 14
“Ask me a stupid question”
I received this e-mail today:
I responded this way:
1. In all honesty, defeating Geo. W. Bush.
Secondarily, better jobs and a better economy. I make less today than I did four years ago, just as millions of Americans do. The ones that have jobs, that is. I'll tell you one of the LEAST important issues to me: "security." This may sound naive, but nobody is going to drive a plane straight into the Chicago suburb where I live or the other one where I work. It's also highly unlikely anyone will do anything to anybody who doesn't live in New York, Washington and maybe, MAYBE Los Angeles. All those fucking "security moms" who live in the middle of Bufoo Missouri (or Pennsylvania or Wisconsin) are stupid, BEYOND stupid because terrorists have no clue where Jefferson City is. Even more importantly, if you want to make a statement about American capitalists pigs and their infidelic lifestyle, killing people in Milwaukee isn't going to mean shit to the rest of the world - and that includes people who live in Illinois spitting distance from the border. The only way terrorism affects my life - if, for example, a dirty bomb goes off in Times Square - is the resulting recession such an event would cause. But I'm a state government employee anyway, so it's not as if I'm going to loose my job. Apologies to those who live in N.Y. D.C or L.A. but no one is forcing you to stay exactly where there's a bull's eye painted directly on your ass.
2. Party. Period. No Republican, no matter how warm and fuzzy, "compassionate" (remember that shit?) intelligent or moderate can represent me as well as the very worst Democrat. Here's what it comes down to: In the legislature, my Democrat will vote for a fellow Democrat to be Speaker of the House or Senate President (Majority Leader in the federal version). Even if a Republican is warm, fuzzy, smart, folksy, moderate - oh, don't let me forget "compassionate" - he/she will still vote for another Republican to run his respective legislative chamber. That leader will, in turn, kiss the ass of the NRA, the Christian Right, Businesses Who Pollute the Environment, the 1 percent of Americans who make more than $200,000 and any other minion of Satan who claims to believe in "family values" but thinks gay people should not have legal recognition for their families. You can say, "Well YOUR friggin' Democrat will pucker the butt cheeks of Welfare Queens, Blacks, Trial Lawyers, fags, abortionists and Kofi Annan, who flies around in a black helicopter trying to steal my AK-47!" Yes, of course.
I wouldn't have it any other way.
A Democrat, by definition, best represents the issues important to me. I have only voted for one Republican in my 16 years of being eligible (Jim Edgar for Illinois governor his first race), and that was more than a decade ago. I do not plan on making that kind of mistake ever again.
Kerry for president, Obama for senate, Tom Dashcle for majority leader, Nancy Pelosi for speaker. By the way, in case you have forgotten, the third branch of government is at stake this election. William Rehnquist isn't going to live forever.
1) What issue(s) are most important to you in this year's elections?
2) What is MORE important to you; sticking with a particular party or voting for the candidate who best represents the issues most important to you?
I responded this way:
1. In all honesty, defeating Geo. W. Bush.
Secondarily, better jobs and a better economy. I make less today than I did four years ago, just as millions of Americans do. The ones that have jobs, that is. I'll tell you one of the LEAST important issues to me: "security." This may sound naive, but nobody is going to drive a plane straight into the Chicago suburb where I live or the other one where I work. It's also highly unlikely anyone will do anything to anybody who doesn't live in New York, Washington and maybe, MAYBE Los Angeles. All those fucking "security moms" who live in the middle of Bufoo Missouri (or Pennsylvania or Wisconsin) are stupid, BEYOND stupid because terrorists have no clue where Jefferson City is. Even more importantly, if you want to make a statement about American capitalists pigs and their infidelic lifestyle, killing people in Milwaukee isn't going to mean shit to the rest of the world - and that includes people who live in Illinois spitting distance from the border. The only way terrorism affects my life - if, for example, a dirty bomb goes off in Times Square - is the resulting recession such an event would cause. But I'm a state government employee anyway, so it's not as if I'm going to loose my job. Apologies to those who live in N.Y. D.C or L.A. but no one is forcing you to stay exactly where there's a bull's eye painted directly on your ass.
2. Party. Period. No Republican, no matter how warm and fuzzy, "compassionate" (remember that shit?) intelligent or moderate can represent me as well as the very worst Democrat. Here's what it comes down to: In the legislature, my Democrat will vote for a fellow Democrat to be Speaker of the House or Senate President (Majority Leader in the federal version). Even if a Republican is warm, fuzzy, smart, folksy, moderate - oh, don't let me forget "compassionate" - he/she will still vote for another Republican to run his respective legislative chamber. That leader will, in turn, kiss the ass of the NRA, the Christian Right, Businesses Who Pollute the Environment, the 1 percent of Americans who make more than $200,000 and any other minion of Satan who claims to believe in "family values" but thinks gay people should not have legal recognition for their families. You can say, "Well YOUR friggin' Democrat will pucker the butt cheeks of Welfare Queens, Blacks, Trial Lawyers, fags, abortionists and Kofi Annan, who flies around in a black helicopter trying to steal my AK-47!" Yes, of course.
I wouldn't have it any other way.
A Democrat, by definition, best represents the issues important to me. I have only voted for one Republican in my 16 years of being eligible (Jim Edgar for Illinois governor his first race), and that was more than a decade ago. I do not plan on making that kind of mistake ever again.
Kerry for president, Obama for senate, Tom Dashcle for majority leader, Nancy Pelosi for speaker. By the way, in case you have forgotten, the third branch of government is at stake this election. William Rehnquist isn't going to live forever.
