Sunday 12 October 2008

Looming Presidential Elections..

The US Presidential Elections are flying towards us. I'm not American so I will clearly not be voting, but this is actually important for the whole world. It could be potentially quite frightening, but that depends on the outcome really.

I would love to get inside the head of someone who votes Republican. I can only assume they have a screw loose. Let's face it - it's riddled with fascists, and there are certainly many fascist supporters. That is something I find rather alarming.

That's not to say that the Democrats are the perfect choice. They clearly have policies that I don't agree with, and I'm going to focus on one in particular in a minute, but they are the only reasonable choice for a safe world. I read a blog quite recently that was written by Justin Sane of the band Anti-Flag - a great inspiration to me - and he was talking about his decision back in 2000 to vote for Nader. To him that was the most reasonable choice and who could blame him? It probably was - Bush or Gore? That's wasn't a great choice it was felt, but he says he wishes he'd voted Gore. This time round he's not going to make that mistake, and will be voting for Obama. Again, not because it's the perfect choice, but because it's the only real choice any person with a brain has. By voting for Obama (regardless of whether you think he's the best choice, but always better than McCain) you counter the votes for McCain. Let's face it - it'll be one of them getting in and you are best off voting for the one who is far far less dangerous.

Who are these people that vote Republican? And exactly where is it that they store their brains? Must be in a jar in a freezer somewhere - put away in storage until a time when they think they can make use of it. Consider the policies. Against abortion - taking away the right for women to choose what happens to their bodies. There are certainly cases when abortion is the right option. And adoption is not a reasonable solution. I'm assuming Republican supporters are prepared to adopt shitloads of unwanted children. All children should be wanted children. Against homosexual marriage - take us back to an earlier time when people were so ridiculously backwards that they believed homosexuality was wrong and unnatural. Don't be an idiot - of course it's natural, of course it's not contageous, and of course it's not dangerous for the continuation of the human race.

Then we get the ridiculous religious right. First of all, take you're archaic superstitions briskly out of the 21st century. Next - stop trying to get momentum for your ideas for legislation. Laws should not be made to suit you and your crazy religious nonsense. Laws should be made in such a way that they benefit everyone. If it doesn't harm another person, then it shouldn't be illegal. Love is fucking love. Get over this nonsense that only a man and a woman can be in love, or have a loving relationship. It's clearly not true. If you are at all homophobic please do us all a favour and remove yourself from the gene pool. Don't have children, and do not try to indoctrinate people with your homophobic ideas.

So, yes, if you are a Republican voter then I will simply assume you are a twat. Plain and simple. There's no excuse for voting for fascists. We've experienced plenty of horrible leaders in many different nations across the globe at different times and we don't need it again. Let's not make the mistake again.

Now the one thing that springs directly to mind on the issue of Obama. He's the only reasonable choice for president of the United States next, but a couple of hours ago I read something that made me a little disappointed. On the section of his website dedicated to the issues that are of concern he mentions faith. He mentioned faith alongside the issue of science. He talked about science being important, but that faith too was important. Since when was faith important or a good thing to have? It's simply not. What is faith? It's generally believing in something that you have absolutely no reason to believe in otherwise. If there is a reason to believe something then it isn't faith we are dealing with. I feel, therefore, that it is not wise to encourage faith.

America needs a nation of clever, enlightened people. Not a nation of idiots. The fact that the polls show that the candidates are so close most of the time demonstrates outright that there clearly are a lot of idiots in the country already. Fortunately they seem to form in groups and certain parts of the country seem to house intelligent people, while others house those that struggle to compete with toilet seats for the highest IQ.

This has really been one big rant and has focussed on attacking the Republicans outright, without a lot of justification. I have justification and I may focus on individual issues of concern over the next three weeks in the run-up to the election. If anybody happens to come and read through this and leave any comments, I may focus on those things individually.

Until next time,
Peace

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