Sun and fog
Mar. 5th, 2012 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoDidn't get as warm today as predicted. There was fog this morning wherever large open fields were covered with snow, and when the sun hit that layer of ground fog it lit up and became well nigh impenetrable. Talk about diffusion...
We had so many leftover things in the fridge that no cooking was necessary for supper tonight. It's unusual not to have at least one course to do something in preparation.
I remain completely puzzled as to how anyone, regardless of political leanings, could support any of the GOP candidates. They say such outrageous things. If some of that stuff came out of the mouth of some foreign leader, the US would be slapping him with a human rights violation or worse. Santorum obviously doesn't understand how Constitutional amendments are processed. He thinks that once he is president [goddess forbid] he can just amend the Constitution to suit himself and force his religion on everyone in the country. Note that he considers Islamic law and the enforcement of Islam upon a country's people to be a human rights violation, but enforcing right wing Christian prejudices on everyone is OK.
Romney is no better at all. Same garbage spews from his mouth as from any of the others, plus he tries to lie about his past positions and statements. Likewise with Paul and Gingrich, though I think they're well out of the running now.
Just when did the GOP become a theocratic party anyway? Certainly they weren't that way back when Barry Goldwater ran for president, nor when Nixon became president. Somewhere between Nixon and Reagan seems to have been when it happened.
Of course most of the social conservative, pseudo-religious talk is just a coverup anyway. The real GOP doesn't care about that stuff, but does care about protecting corporations from any and all regulation, control, or taxation. They also want to increase the divide between the wealthiest Americans and the rest of us. Very few voters would favor those goals, so they keep them hidden, and use outrage over social changes to distract us from their real agenda. All the candidates are millionaires who have lived their entire lives sheltered from the realities of ordinary workers. They frequently take a "let them eat cake" view, and no one seems to call them on it.
Once again I'm reminded of the reasons that democracy really doesn't work for very long in most cases.
Mind, I don't like Obama at all. I consider him to be one of the least productive and most useless presidents of my lifetime. He has sold out on everything, and really is no different from his would-be opponents from my point of view. Even Bill Clinton was more effective, and that's saying a lot.
We had so many leftover things in the fridge that no cooking was necessary for supper tonight. It's unusual not to have at least one course to do something in preparation.
I remain completely puzzled as to how anyone, regardless of political leanings, could support any of the GOP candidates. They say such outrageous things. If some of that stuff came out of the mouth of some foreign leader, the US would be slapping him with a human rights violation or worse. Santorum obviously doesn't understand how Constitutional amendments are processed. He thinks that once he is president [goddess forbid] he can just amend the Constitution to suit himself and force his religion on everyone in the country. Note that he considers Islamic law and the enforcement of Islam upon a country's people to be a human rights violation, but enforcing right wing Christian prejudices on everyone is OK.
Romney is no better at all. Same garbage spews from his mouth as from any of the others, plus he tries to lie about his past positions and statements. Likewise with Paul and Gingrich, though I think they're well out of the running now.
Just when did the GOP become a theocratic party anyway? Certainly they weren't that way back when Barry Goldwater ran for president, nor when Nixon became president. Somewhere between Nixon and Reagan seems to have been when it happened.
Of course most of the social conservative, pseudo-religious talk is just a coverup anyway. The real GOP doesn't care about that stuff, but does care about protecting corporations from any and all regulation, control, or taxation. They also want to increase the divide between the wealthiest Americans and the rest of us. Very few voters would favor those goals, so they keep them hidden, and use outrage over social changes to distract us from their real agenda. All the candidates are millionaires who have lived their entire lives sheltered from the realities of ordinary workers. They frequently take a "let them eat cake" view, and no one seems to call them on it.
Once again I'm reminded of the reasons that democracy really doesn't work for very long in most cases.
Mind, I don't like Obama at all. I consider him to be one of the least productive and most useless presidents of my lifetime. He has sold out on everything, and really is no different from his would-be opponents from my point of view. Even Bill Clinton was more effective, and that's saying a lot.
no subject
Date: 2012-03-06 11:11 am (UTC)Also, when you say that "democracy really doesn't work for very long in most cases", is that just a statement of a sad-but-inevitable fact, or do you have other political systems you'd prefer?
no subject
Date: 2012-03-06 12:56 pm (UTC)Considered from a broad perspective, I would say that Franklin Roosevelt did pretty well, and Truman and Eisenhower surprisingly well. Kennedy had very strong points too, and Lyndon Johnson bugged me at times but gets an overall favorable rating. Nixon was a disaster, not so much for his policies as for his attitudes and behaviors. Jimmy Carter I still really like, but it seems he wasn't cut out to be an aggressive leader. Reagan was a horror story and I just don't understand why so many people idolize him. I blame his administration for many of the current serious problems faced by the US. Both Bush administrations just dragged the US farther into the mud and darkness, and Clinton was a horrific embarrassment because of his personal conduct, as well as a wimp who didn't stand up for the promises he had made and sold his supporters up the river. I'll note though that in spite of being a Democratic administration, Clinton ended his term in good financial condition which GW Bush immediately trashed.
Who would make a good president? I have no one in mind. The best candidates often are the most reluctant, and understandably so. Those with great ambition to hold the office invariably turn out to be horrible.
As for "other systems" I don't favor anything other than democracy, but I also don't believe the US is a true democracy any more (if it ever was.) We have here a plutocracy, where wealth controls all. The decisions are made by the very wealthy, and then disguised as democracy by clever manipulations of the media and elections.
no subject
Date: 2012-03-06 06:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-06 06:19 pm (UTC)I'd be assassinated before I could even take office.
no subject
Date: 2012-03-07 01:39 am (UTC)I wish Obama ran in the Republican primary though, and let a Democrat that actually believed in Obama's promises to run for the Democrats this time.
no subject
Date: 2012-03-07 01:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-07 04:52 am (UTC)