Real Americans
I honestly intended to write lots and lots and lots during this outstandingly annoying exercise in national banality known as the election campaign season. I really did. But to be blunt, this season has annoyed and depressed me more than any I can remember (and being 59, I can remember quite a few). Obama takes positions with which I disagree, and that idiot from Alaska and the old man she lugs around make me want to puke. So, why am I writing? The answer is simple: lately, the award winning team of Palin and Bachman have been running their mouths off about what constitutes a real American, and where real America really is. This offends and even scares the hell out of me. I seem to recall that back in the good old days of Nazi Germany, the philosophical underpinning of Nazism was that there were certain Germans who were real Germans and others (Jews, gays, gypsies) who were not. For the Nazis, the best way to have a happy homeland was to do away with all those who were not real Germans. This was the Nazi final solution. From what I can tell, the vile garbage that flows so freely from Palin/Bachman et al sounds horrifically like the crap that spewed from Hitler and the boys. Those places that aren’t real America are urban areas where jews, gays, college educated people and other terrorist sympathisers live and do their vile deeds. Am I the only one who finds this eerily Nazi-like? Joe McCarthy was a witch hunter who ruined countless lives, but these cretins make old Joe look like a kindly old man by comparison. Am I exaggerating? I don’t think so. You see, I live in a nice, white little town that these assholes would see as real America full of real Americans. In fact, I live in Michelle Bachmans electoral district-Stillwater, Minnesota. I know Michelle. I have looked in her crazy eyes. Heard her spew invective towards and about the “other”. I also saw how, when my daughter was growing up in real America, some parents would not let their children play with her because her dad is a Jew. I’ve heard diatribes from friend and foe alike about “you people”. I hate to the marrow in my bones what these people stand for. There is nothing funny about Sara Palin-she is an evil woman who belongs as far away from the White House as possible. As for Michelle Bachman, the only thing I can say is the more she opens her ignorant mouth and spews venom the more money winds up in Tinklenberg’s war chest. I really really really hope Michelle gets rejected, finally, by the good white Chirstians of Stillwater and the rest of her district. Unfortunately, I fear that ignorance and intolerance will prevail. Anyone who reads this (or anything else that appears on this blog) and wants to disagree (or even agree) with me in person, I can be found at the Daily Grind coffee shop in Stillwater every Saturday and most Sundays of the year. Beware: I am not Minnesota nice. In fact, some would say I’m really not any kind of nice at all. I am very opinionated. I say what I think. I guess I’m a real American.
Here’s a good look at what she said: http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2008/10/video-chris-matthews-v-michelle-bachman.html
