Below I share an email I sent to a family member in response to their incessant chant.
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I find it hypocritical for you to throw the “give me your solutions” line at me when you are the one who has, on several occasions, backed out of these types of conversations with me saying, “I don’t follow this stuff as closely as you”. Yet, you have the gall to say, “don’t give me the political bullshit”? I am both amazed at and disappointed by the lack of intellectual curiosity to pursue this discussion beyond the repetitive call for “where is your solution”? Why didn't you read any of the half dozen "solution"-rich sources I provided you previously? Instead, all I get is a repetitive, sarcastic chant.
2006
I remember back in 2006 when you told me that you were happy with the mainstream media’s unrelenting crucifixion of George Bush because, as you said, “they are on my side”. I said something like, “well at least I can respect that”. Ever since then that exchange has bothered me. I have come to realize that the reason this country is falling apart is because of people who think like you (Party over Country or “they’re on my side”). There are no sides!
There is the country as it was founded then there is the country we have today and then there is worse-than-that. Yet, you approved of the media’s continual drumbeat of “Bush Lied People Died”, “Bush is a war monger”, “Bush is a fill-in-the-blank” without the slightest bit of interest into the truthfulness of the charges. At least you are in good company. Consider Dan Rather’s willingness to throw away a forty-year career over falsified documents in order to hurt Bush’s reelection campaign. That is nothing short of psychosis. But, Dan was on your side so I suppose that was ok.
Message Received Loud and Clear:
The message I received was loud and clear whether you meant it or not. The Democrat Party is more important than the country. I don’t get too upset when I see assholes like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, and Barack Obama doing that but you? That’s where the disappointment resides.
Just for the record, the Democrat Party died when they threw Senator Liebermann under the bus back in 2004. There simply was not enough room under the tent for dissension so the former Vice Presidential candidate was cast aside like a used rag. Not much different in the Republican Party, which died decades ago with the exception of eight years under Reagan. That’s why both parties get lame-ass Presidential candidates like Bob Dole, John McCain, Barack Obama, Al Gore, John Kerry, Michael Dukakis, and Walter Mondale. Now that’s the cream of the crop!
To Summarize What I Hear You Saying:
Dozens of personally authored blog posts with innumerable solutions offered, thousands of Twitter posts, The Heritage Foundation, an Obama-appointed panel (Bowles-Simpson), four presidential candidates’ platforms and a courageous Congressman’s plan to reform entitlement programs (Paul Ryan) are NOT enough SOLUTIONS for you. I guess those types of solutions are not presented on NBC Nightly News or on NPR (both of which we know are politically neutral news sources).
Final Thoughts:
I now realize that I am in the minority. I, and others like me, know that both major political parties are full of shit. They are power hungry and self-serving. They are more interested in lining their own pockets than looking out for their constituents’. People like me actually believe in The Constitution, unlike many of our elected officials and the majority of voters who are apathetic or ignorant. People like you are more concerned with the “D” or “R” initial in front of a politicians name rather than listening to what they have to say (their solutions!).
Parting Shots:
Since I will refrain from future political conversations with you, I want to prognosticate about Barack Obama’s reelection campaign:
- He will woo the ignorant, the apathetic, the straight-party voters, the dependent (those who rely on the government for money/food stamps/health care) and the unions.
- He will say “fair share” 8,000 times between now and November.
- He will divide Americans into as many segments as possible and pit us against each other – black vs. white, rich vs. poor, young vs. elderly, The 1% vs. The 99%, illegal immigrants vs. citizens, pro-life vs. pro-abortion, atheists vs. the religious, those who are pro-dirty air and water vs. the Democrats, the “drill baby, drill!” crowd vs. the more sophisticated environmental movement, those for limited government (pro-Constitution) vs. big government (nanny state), etc, etc.
- His campaign will crucify the Republican nominee with personal attacks, lies, falsified documents and attacks on their religion.
- The complicit news media will ignore Obama’s pitiful record of unsustainable deficits, pending inflation, the longest period of high unemployment since The Great Depression, high gas prices, the worst economic recovery since The Great Depression, shitty GDP growth, crippling regulations, the unconstitutional disaster known as Obamacare, his associations with the likes of Saul Alinsky, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers and George Soros, crony capitalism, “skyrocketing electricity prices” and the “fundamental transformation of America”. Instead they will focus on invented controversies like contraception and Sandra Fluke.
- He will say things like, “it was much worse than we thought” and “we need more time to implement our plan” and “we’ve come to far to change horses in the middle of the race”.
- He will constantly explain how he actually has very little control over things like gas prices, the economy, government spending, war, etc.
- He will blame Congress for not working with him (pay no attention to the 50-60 bills sent to the Senate from the House that Harry Reid refused to bring to a vote).
- When all else fails, Obama and his supporters will blame George W. Bush.
· Through it all, you will notice that he never accepts responsibility for anything. Instead of “the buck stops here”, we have “the buck starts here”.
The reason he is forced to go through such machinations is because HE CANNOT RUN ON HIS RECORD!
Rather than recognize the miserable failure the two political parties have been over the last dozen years, you seem to hold blindly to the Democrat machine and throw “what’s your solution” at me over and over again despite the fact that I gave you at least a dozen.
On Twitter, I regularly engage self-proclaimed socialists, atheists, pro-abortion-is-a-religionists, global warming purveyors, and Democrat hook-line-and-sinker voters. They have no problem with the Democrat’s divide-America-while-claiming-to-bring-it-together strategy but they all have one thing in common, they never point to any evidence that anything has improved under Obama. All I get are shallow generalities, superficial platitudes, propaganda and the “what is your solution” chant.
