Four More Years

If you despise the Bush administration and everything it stands for, don’t vote. If, despite everything, you are still undecided: vote Bush/Cheney. Vote for Four More Years.

The people who run the country are like that asshole at work that you watched lie, cheat and steal their way to the top. No real talent in their job, left a trail disasters and ruined careers behind them, yet rose steadily ever upward. Hell – you may even work for them now. In any large organization – you CAN succeed if have ONLY political skill. In fact, if that’s all you have, you’re better off being selfish, arrogant, and unconcerned about petty obstacles like ethics and touchy-feely people issues. This Administration is composed of the best and brightest political knife-fighters in modern history. And they run the show like knife-fighters: aggressive, violent, fast to act, slow to reflect. They know what they want, and they go after it with single-minded, unquestioning intensity.

Another four years of this will be an unmitigated disaster.

But look at the polls – this is what the people WANT. HALF the voting public wants more of the same. Apparently a large number of Americans STILL think you can have war without casualties, Democracy by invasion, empire with a volunteer military, unilateral foreign policy AND allies, accede to every whim of big corporations and yet improve the lives of the middle class.

Well, they should get what they want. And get it hard. Over and over until they can’t take it any more. Kerry voters are selfish. Who are we to deny half the American voters their God-given right to be ruled by tin-hat, banana-republic dictator wanna-be’s?

Americans need to learn that when they vote for a Government of draft-dodging ultra-right wing ideologues and corporate bag-men, there is a price to pay. And to learn that lesson, they need to pay that price. So that next time, people will really understand; in their polluted, impoverished, outsourced, health-careless, war-weary lives, that corruption mixed with inflexible ideology is a straight-line path to misery.

If Kerry wins the election – THE NEO-CONS ARE OFF THE HOOK. They are freed from the responsibility of Iraq. Back to their cushy jobs at the Hoover Institution, at Halliberton, on the lecture circuit. And they will be ubiquitous on their obnoxious talk shows, in congress, in the senate, in the media… picking, poking, undermining everything the Kerry Administration tries to do. They need to STAY. They pooped on the carpet, and now they need to clean it up even if they wreck it trying.

Americans are addicted. Addicted to a confused, corrosive, xenophobic ideology that places a higher value on Faith than Truth. It has given us cancer, and it will kill us. It’s the same cancer that almost killed the Europeans in the first half of this century, and that almost killed America in the 1860’s. Sure, if Kerry wins we exercise this latest tumor, and maybe we’ll even recover… but we’ll still be addicted, and the cancer will come back. We need to cure this addiction once and for all, and the way you always start that process is to show the addict the ruin the addition leads to. And no-one is more qualified to take us there than a second Bush/Cheney administration.