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Showing Original Post only (View all)Our Dumb Democracy: Why the United States of Stupid Still Reins Supreme [View all]
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/22Astoundingly, Mr. Obama the supreme pragmatist and compromiser gave an inaugural address that was as strong a defense of progressivism as we have seen in thirty years. Yet it will take more than words to make a difference. As the echoes of his speech fade, we are still faced with ultra-rightwing terrorists threatening to hold the US economy hostage to a set of demands that the majority of Americans disagree with.
These are the same loonies who deny global warming; the same ones who set up a museum showing prehistoric humans walking with dinosaurs; the same ones who think the answer to gun violence is more guns; the same ones who voted against relief for victims of Sandy the same ones who want to shove ultrasound instruments into womens vaginas and tell people who they can and cannot marry while simultaneously shouting to the rooftops about freedom and values.
Yeah. Their freedoms, their beliefs and their values, please. All others step to the back of the bus, or consult Leviticus. You know, that font of ancient wisdom that tells us when and how to stone our neighbors daughter.
Want to know how our political discourse got so mind-numbingly stupid?
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xchrom
Jan 2013
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No coincidence that we're all called "products" of the school system either
The2ndWheel
Jan 2013
#11
TV is more inclusive than religions, but both are rooted in fantasy and this nation has
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#17
Including minorities in a fantasy is better than excluding them, but doesn't alter the
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#27
Nice post, xchrom. Love this excerpt: “Stop Illeagles.” Yup, gotta hate it when eagles get ill.
pampango
Jan 2013
#3
The sign says what it says because it is angry white men who are proposing to create
Luminous Animal
Jan 2013
#34