Hurricane Katrina
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, how do you think a lot of people in the UK feel when they see our PM kissing his ****!
witch:
Actually a lot of people here were disgusted with Tony Blair around the whole Iraq thing, especially that cooked report about weapons of mass destruction, he tried to put one over the whole country.
Mind you, on a local level, we are about to have an election. We have a system whereby we get one party vote and one local candidate vote. Trouble is, our local MP is a man in his fifties who has a diehard following, so he gets elected back time after time, sometimes by the skin of his teeth. The really sad thing is that he's an alkie, who obviously manages to control it during the day but is often to be found in bars late at night, having altercations with immigrant taxi drivers, trying to pick up young women and all the other behaviours that go along with the lifestyle. Last year when I went to Wellington, our capital, I found myself apologising to three separate taxi drivers for our city electing him!?! :-\
He still has piratical good looks and a smooth and old fashioned manner, the old women just swoon over him. He literally digs them all up from their graves the night before an election and infuses them with enough life to vote. Some middle-class, well-off people like him. The old men adore him because he is a complete redneck bigot, despite being a dark-skinned Maori himself. He plays on peoples' fears about crime and immigration and old age and money. He cannot answer a straight question without developing a conspiracy theory.
In the last 20 years this man has done nothing for the local community in the way of developing industry or manufacturing, no lobbying for anything sensible like roading to cope with the mass population explosion here, nothing. Every election, I pray enough old people have died that this man won't get back into parliament. I could be waiting a while, this town started as a rich retirement village on the coast. :'(
/endrant
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, if he's an alkie, his liver will soon let him down, even if his voters don't!
Kristalrose:
Witch: Thank you for posting those sites. I feel better, because I live in the bible belt, I'm surroundeed by mindless fundamentalist conservative sheep who love Dubbya and wish we'd just go blow up Iraq and Afghanstan to get Bin Laden and other terrorists, and pull the plug on every program that "hands out" money to the poor, the mentally ill, the disabled, on and on. I have felt that I was the only person sane in this crazy world. My own babysitter is a fire-breathing conservative, and she gleefully told me last November as I dropped off my son that her vote had cancelled out my vote. Bush took NC, proud home state of John Edwards who was running for VP. Can't even support the home-boy. >:(
Why does this happen? Because of many factors. 1 is Fear. We are scared to death of the stuff we see happening around us. Bush talks about getting tough on terrorism and crime and lawlessnes, and we want to believe him and think that he's going to stand up for good family values and moral character (remember him repeating that over and over during the debates last year?). People even hear this preached to them in their churches, to get out and support the "Men of God" that will do away with sins like abortions and stem-cell research. 2 is Kerry. Why, oh why, did the Democrats pick Kerry? Was he giving sexual favors to someone (ewwwww!)? The Republicans and the Conservatives are not the only groups with mindless sheep: Democrats and Liberals have more than their share, too. Kerry last year, Gore the election before, no one wants them in power, and to some people, Bush just seemed like the lesser of two evils. The sad fact is that this country has been sorely lacking in true leadership for a very long time. Some would say that we killed our last great president (Kennedy) and some would say we haven't had a good president since Truman or even Roosevelt. I don't know who should run in 2008, because I have yet to see anyone I really thought would be honest and strong and make good decisions that helped everyone, not just his cronnies. Those kind of politicians are non-existant today, and the ones really running the country are the lobbists and the Corporations. 3 is money. Bush represents big industry and plays his politics to make them happy. Why has mental health and Medicare Prescription Coverage been privatized on state and national levels? Because Big Buisness, Insurance Companies and Drug Manufacturers wanted it that way. Why are oil prices skyrocketing? Well, Bush comes from Texas, has lots of contributers and friends in the oil business, family fortune was made in oil. . . you figure it out. 4. Tax Breaks. We know that Democrats have a history of "Tax and Spend" politics, and Republican have a history of tax breaks. They cut necessary programs to do that, but we don't think about that if it's not our problem. We just like that big check we get the 1st part of every year from the IRS.
This country has been going down the tubes since we started paying people to breed. You know what? I completely and totally agree with that statement, because I see it everyday. We have a whole generation who think that society owes them something, and they will not get a job, and to keep from going to work they get pregnant again. There is no motivation, no personal responsibility anymore. This is why I'm looking for a new job. Or maybe just build myself a hole in the ground in Montana. I don't think that JMP has such a bad idea. ;)
KellyQ:
Quote from: Kristalrose on 2005 September 09, 15:24:16
I'm surroundeed by mindless fundamentalist conservative sheep who love Dubbya and wish we'd just go blow up Iraq and Afghanstan to get Bin Laden and other terrorists, and pull the plug on every program that "hands out" money to the poor, the mentally ill, the disabled, on and on. I have felt that I was the only person sane in this crazy world.
I had no idea you lived in my neighborhood! ;D
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