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I don't come here anymore because frankly, it's better for my blood pressure that way. But now something has pushed me over the edge, so I feel like venting a little.
In a nutshell, Republicans hate people and want them to die from lack of healthcare. Oh yes, I'm going there. Facing several thousand dollars worth of oral surgery will do that to a person. So forgive me if I'm just a teensy little bit fucking bitter as hell right now.
The GOP has whined and pissed and bitched that "Obamacare" is OMG SOOOOOOCIALISM! while not offering a goddamned helpful solution of their own (and I'd bet that very few of these mouthpieces would even know what socialism was if it bit them in their asses). No, they'd much rather soak in their own smug self-righteousness and attack women's rights (as seen by the recent bullshit "personhood" vote in Mississippi) and kick what's left of poor people's teeth out. When they aren't, of course, pumping up their war machines for empire expansion... I don't doubt that Obamacare probably has its drawbacks, but when you avoid going to the dentist for regular checkups and cleaning because a) you're unemployed for long periods of time, as I was, and/or b) you just can't afford it, and then later you wind up facing potentially life-threatening problems (abscessed teeth can kill you) something is seriously, seriously wrong. Don't fucking tell me this goddamn country doesn't need healthcare reform. Try having six teeth yanked out and THEN tell me our system isn't broken.
Fuck the fetuses and embryoes and zygotes. What about ALREADY-BORN people? Since when did they cease to matter less than some goddamn ideology that inherently devalues women (and men, by implying that they're mindless beasts incapable of self-control) and turns pregnancy into some kind of sick twisted cult?
I include the Teabaggers in the GOP as well, because they're part of the overall rot - the religious reich, the corporate bloodsuckers, all of 'em. Funny how when Teabaggers protest they're just "standing up for their rights" and hold "peaceful" rallies with signs like "We came unarmed (THIS time)", that's not implicating violence, but when the Occupiers - liberals, moderates, old-school conservatives, old and young alike - pissed off at Wall Street's greed cluster in the streets to protest government abuse, suddenly they're "lazy hippies" who don't want to work and cause destruction.
Voting Democrat won't save us either. They have their own demons, and their main sin is in being too spineless to confront and stop these bullies. (State Dems have fared better on this count.) Though I do give them some credit for trying, at times. But to say that the two are "just as bad" is crap. They aren't. Not in the past 30+ years, anyway. For that, Ronald Reagan can rot in hell. He's the one who made the literal deal with the devil by sucking up to the religious reich in his day. Now we have dominionists who are every bit as bloodthirsty as overseas fanatics - it's just that it's YOUR death they'd prefer to orchestrate, if they can't convert you to their religion of hate and fear.
Republicans hate anybody who isn't white, straight, wealthy, Christian, and male. All one has to do is look at how they've mutated in the last 30+ years, and look where we are now and who gets the money and who's benefiting. Herman Cain can take his 9-9-9 and shove it right up where the good old Southern sun doesn't shine. What does he care? What does Romney, or Palin, or Bachmann, or the others care? They're rich. They have what they want - that's the GOP mantra. "Screw you, I got mine." So much for "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." So much for "love thy neighbor as thyself," or "brother's keeper."
If that's the America of the 21st century, then I guess I'm a lousy patriot.
In a nutshell, Republicans hate people and want them to die from lack of healthcare. Oh yes, I'm going there. Facing several thousand dollars worth of oral surgery will do that to a person. So forgive me if I'm just a teensy little bit fucking bitter as hell right now.
The GOP has whined and pissed and bitched that "Obamacare" is OMG SOOOOOOCIALISM! while not offering a goddamned helpful solution of their own (and I'd bet that very few of these mouthpieces would even know what socialism was if it bit them in their asses). No, they'd much rather soak in their own smug self-righteousness and attack women's rights (as seen by the recent bullshit "personhood" vote in Mississippi) and kick what's left of poor people's teeth out. When they aren't, of course, pumping up their war machines for empire expansion... I don't doubt that Obamacare probably has its drawbacks, but when you avoid going to the dentist for regular checkups and cleaning because a) you're unemployed for long periods of time, as I was, and/or b) you just can't afford it, and then later you wind up facing potentially life-threatening problems (abscessed teeth can kill you) something is seriously, seriously wrong. Don't fucking tell me this goddamn country doesn't need healthcare reform. Try having six teeth yanked out and THEN tell me our system isn't broken.
Fuck the fetuses and embryoes and zygotes. What about ALREADY-BORN people? Since when did they cease to matter less than some goddamn ideology that inherently devalues women (and men, by implying that they're mindless beasts incapable of self-control) and turns pregnancy into some kind of sick twisted cult?
I include the Teabaggers in the GOP as well, because they're part of the overall rot - the religious reich, the corporate bloodsuckers, all of 'em. Funny how when Teabaggers protest they're just "standing up for their rights" and hold "peaceful" rallies with signs like "We came unarmed (THIS time)", that's not implicating violence, but when the Occupiers - liberals, moderates, old-school conservatives, old and young alike - pissed off at Wall Street's greed cluster in the streets to protest government abuse, suddenly they're "lazy hippies" who don't want to work and cause destruction.
Voting Democrat won't save us either. They have their own demons, and their main sin is in being too spineless to confront and stop these bullies. (State Dems have fared better on this count.) Though I do give them some credit for trying, at times. But to say that the two are "just as bad" is crap. They aren't. Not in the past 30+ years, anyway. For that, Ronald Reagan can rot in hell. He's the one who made the literal deal with the devil by sucking up to the religious reich in his day. Now we have dominionists who are every bit as bloodthirsty as overseas fanatics - it's just that it's YOUR death they'd prefer to orchestrate, if they can't convert you to their religion of hate and fear.
Republicans hate anybody who isn't white, straight, wealthy, Christian, and male. All one has to do is look at how they've mutated in the last 30+ years, and look where we are now and who gets the money and who's benefiting. Herman Cain can take his 9-9-9 and shove it right up where the good old Southern sun doesn't shine. What does he care? What does Romney, or Palin, or Bachmann, or the others care? They're rich. They have what they want - that's the GOP mantra. "Screw you, I got mine." So much for "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." So much for "love thy neighbor as thyself," or "brother's keeper."
If that's the America of the 21st century, then I guess I'm a lousy patriot.
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