I'm tired of Shit Kickers deciding the direction of my country !!!

[RagAss]

This fucking shit is getting old !

[sasha031]

1. I live in the N East, bluest state in the union

I am so sick of no nothing yahoo's bringing everyone else down.

[lbrtbell]

2. As a rural Democrat with Democratic neighbors

I say, fuck you.

Rupert Murdoch isn't a "shitkicker", nor are all the Wall Street and DC thieves who are running this country into the ground.

My state is blood-red, but there were plenty of people who wanted Hillary Clinton to be President, before anyone ever dreamed Obama would take the lead in the Dem primary.

The only fucktarded right-winger I know is my Limbaugh-loving neighbor. Even the freakin' postman agrees that we need to stop spending so much on these wars.

We're the people whose roads suffer because the cities get first dibs on what little govt. money is available for infrastructure.

We're the people worrying about our SS/Medicare/Medicaid.

You want to bitch about politicians? Go for it. But fuck you for categorizing all rural people as "shitkickers" who march in lockstep with these politicians, who are NOT doing the will of the American people.

[RagAss]

3. My reference was to the tea Party reps.

[calimary]

4. Me too! I REFUSE to live by their "morality" dictates!

Especially since they all clearly still regard me as property good only for being a brood mare (because I'm a female human).

My best friend is lost to the Dark Side now, too. She moved to Texas. She was out here visiting the other night. Slowly the talking points started coming out - "...they're killing babies!" "States Rights!" "lazy moochers and welfare queens with six and seven kids just sucking off the system," "...rick perry! He's SOOOOO wonderful!" And "oh, no, he's not a religious fundamentalist (um, girlfriend, what about his hosting these "prayer gatherings" with all these fundie wacko "preachers" and his saying "I feel led to run...") "OH NO, that isn't fundie codespeak. He doesn't REALLY hang around with THOSE people!" And "he's been SO GOOD for Texas!" And "I had hope for Obama but..." and finally - the piece de resistance: "yes, I liked bush. I still do." GAK!!!!! While Clinton was president, you should have heard the talk from her - all peppered with the "Slick Willie" thing. And she loved dubya. Still does.

Sigh... :cry: My best friend in the whole world, for more than 40 years... a lost soul... :(

BTW - that last one - about still loving george w bush? She's one example I've seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears - saying that "at least you knew where he stood. At least he stood for something." (Never mind that what he stood for was 1000% pure lice-eaten, worm-infested SHIT!) I tell ya - it's really true. People resonate to what they perceive as someone taking a strong stand. Doesn't even matter how horrid or criminal or downright sinful that stand is. If they're firm on it and take that stand with all their firmest most vehement convictions, they're a winner with this mentality. He used to campaign during the 2004 election on several buzz phrases including "you may not agree with me, but you know where I stand." These people have no respect for nuance, compromise, seeing the gray areas, or anything else. Certainty sells. Even if it's certainty about utter illogical nonsensical CRAP.

She's spent too much of her life hanging around yahoos - she does some acting and is into the celebrity rodeo and shooting circuit, and has lots of friends who are stunt people and gun lovers and NRA people and wannabe cowboys and other rough-and-ready types, and she knows people who've shot with dick cheney (and oh my can she excuse and rationalize THAT whole sordid episode away!). It's galling. FUCKING GALLING! When she brought up rick perry using such admiring tones to speak of him and his apparent preparations to run for president, my husband blurted out - "what's he running on, the Secession Party?" and this look of abject pain and disgust washed over her face. We've had that argument before with her - OH NO HE DOESN'T REEEEEEEEEALLY believe in secession. He was joking! But you know it IS in the State Constitution! Texas IS the only state whose constitution reserves the right to secede." So my husband and I both said - "well, okay then! Fine! Go ahead and secede! Buh-BYE!" And she started getting upset. "He was JUST JOKING!" "Um, sorry - WE DON'T CONSIDER THAT A JOKE, friend. Do you know how many people SUFFERED AND DIED to keep you assholes IN the Union?"

NONE of that cut through the layers of crap. And she watches Pox Noise. Along with the other Sunday shows, too, she says. She claims she watches "everything." But there's SO MUCH shit-speak coming out of her mouth these days that it's just DAMN FUCKING HEARTBREAKING!!!!!!! It makes me SO SAD!!!! My best friend. Lost. And gonna vote republi-CON again next year. I'm certain of it. Even Obama's nailing bin Laden (which she LOVED, because she knew people who were killed on 9/11) doesn't carry any weight with her anymore, although she was quite gleeful and triumphant after it happened.

It just breaks my heart.

[RagAss]

8. Excellent post...and your experience is replicated hundreds of thousands of times...

every day in this country. It's an assault on reason and I am just sick of it !

[calimary]

9. It's quite fascinating in a dark and stormy and discouraging way - the "civilians"

using the talking points and the buzz phrases. They rolled off her tongue as though scripted. That always sounds, to me, like a big fat red swollen giveaway. Tells you EXACTLY who they're watching and listening to most. And how much of it is being absorbed and internalized, and indeed thoroughly "grokked."

And every time something came up like - her: "States Rights! Blah-blah-blah!" Me: "Okay, so you're fine with flying the fucking racist slavery-loving 'stars & bars' over the state capitol then too?" Her: "Oh no. Oh, that's just ... (rationalization, rationalization, rationalization...). States Rights really mean... (various rationalizations that all boil down to a basic SCREW-THE-POOR/NOTHIN'-BUT-LAZY-MOOCHERS advocacy)."

VERY upsetting. She worked on the same Students for Humphrey/Muskie with me back in high school. Fervently too. And voted for McGovern with the rest of us good guys. I love her a lot. Hell, she's one of my children's godmothers, and the sister I never had. It fucking BREAKS MY HEART. MAN - she's just brainwashed. Unreachable. Owned. LOST.


:cry:

I sometimes actually think it might be good to consider an intervention to rescue her soul, but most of her friends by now, after all that time in Texas and so many of her friends being teabagger-ron paul-ayn rand types, are knuckledraggers. They wouldn't be of any help. They certainly wouldn't be sympathetic to my reasoning!

[Rex]

5. Nice try at a brand/label but not all of them are Shit Kickers.

Some are Stoners and Jocks and don't forget the Preps and the Perps! Come on BE FAIR RagAss!

[RagAss]

6. The Tea party has assumed the role(real or just contrived) that they are a simple group...

representing simple folks....I didn't write this act...I'm just watching it.

[Rex]

7. Yes but 'simple folk' is a lot better description for their followers.

They, on the otherhand, are any BUT simple folk...I would call them evil motherfuckers bent on destroying America or EMBoDAs. I know, doesn't have a good ring to it.