Just Sick of It!

Finally, after 2 years of campaigning and politics, it’s over and Obama is president. Part of me is actually glad, my hope is that the real Republicans will get their heads out of their collective asses and head back to what matters. Hopefully John McCain will never run again, Sara Palin will go back to Alaska and never return. As much as I like John McCain he’s not a smart man, and extremely old and out of touch. Sara Palin doesn’t have any experience or knowledge to have been thrust into the position she was in, stay in Alaska lady. McCain had to choose someone like Palin because choosing someone like Mitt Romney would anger the bible thumping Republicans.

What I hear from 90% of the young, smart, people out there is that if Republicans were so god damn bible thumping they would stand with them. They constantly side with the religious fanatics, which are the rights version of the lefts anti-war, green party, MoveOn.org’ers. Young people are extremely tolerant, but there is no reason for religion in politics for a county that doesn’t have one religion, and they know this. The Republicans constantly tackle issues that no one cares about because they have to please the bible thump’ers, for example the FCC’s crusade against TV and Radio for accidents. They try to be the ones who says what’s moral and not, and this is what they got.

I classify myself as a socially liberal conservative. This means I’m pro choice, I’m not religious but I’m spiritual. I believe in limited government and that taxes should be low. I believe that people will help other people, though giving and that shouldn’t be mandated via the government. I believe in free speech and that I have no right to tell gays or lesbians how to live and that they should get married. I also believe in the right to bear arms.

Now why is this that so freaking hard! No one speaks for me, no one. Republicans are bible thump’ers who just want to stifle speech on radio and TV because it may contain sex. They also want to tell gays and lesbians that they can’t marry and no more abortions. Meanwhile the Democrats want to tax me to death, give it to people who pay no taxes and don’t work. They want abortions but refuse to kill criminals who rape and kill people. They trumpet man made global warming that any people with half a brain knows is a lie. They also hate every religion and want it banned from everything, except of course if that religion is Muslim.

I HATE both parties! I’m sick of having to put up with Republican religious bullshit because they are better than the Democrats. Wait, I just heard something, did one of you reading this just say a third party? Green Party (YUCK), Libertarian (YUCK AGAIN). Independent, now wait a second, what dies Independent mean? Well let me tell you, it’s a Democrat or Republican who’s trying to get the most votes by not being affiliated with one of those parties.

I don’t mind Obama being president, but having the Democrats control everything is not good. It wasn’t good when the Republicans had that power, and all the Democrats were crying. Now that the tables are turned they love it. It makes me sick and it should make you sick too. Our government and Congress in particular was founded on the principal of compromise. Well we can’t have that when one party is in control.

I’ve said it before and I will say it again. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get any better. People have to stop being blindly lead around by flashy’ness, or party politics. This country isn’t doomed because of Obama, he’ll do fine. But this country is doomed because of us, all of us.

I wish to give a hearty hello to all the typical white people out there. The racial undertones that placate the United States are finally coming to the surface with the democrat presidential nomination success of Sen. Barack Obama. I would agree with Sen. Obama and his “just proud of America now” wife that the United States is still raciest, but as a human who understands the world around him I know that it won’t change.

As humans, we profile based on the information at hand. For example if I get chased down the street by a mad raccoon in the middle of the night, I will now avoid raccoon’s, because there is a possibility they might attack. No raciest undertones here people, I actually do mean raccoon’s!

I used my past experience to create a profile of something that might be a danger to me or of expected behavior. It takes time to modify a profile that’s so ingrained and propagated. Some deem that raciest, I deem it a useful survival instinct. Profiling is useful and it’s the way we work, it’s not just based on race, but can be based on any group-able criteria, for example age, clothing, etc.

Does racism still exist, yes. Is it as bad as it was, no. Racism is not just a white creation, as we’ve been lead to believe for all these years. A few years ago a friend of mine was talking a political science course at a university when the topic of racism came up. The topic was completely about white racism and they posed a question to the instructor, “What about black racism?”. The instructors response that backs cannot be racist because they don’t have the power to act on it.

Now according to the dictionary the definition of racism is “a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others.” I must have missed the part about having the power to act on racism. So then, why can’t blacks be racists?

Don’t get me wrong here, I could care less if someone wants to be raciest; black, white or brown. That’s their choice and it’s not my place to tell them otherwise. I’m just sick of the double standard. As a country we have to realize the mistakes of our past, slavery, but not put the blame on any specific race of people, because that would be racist. I know there is a majority of white people out there that have white guilt, but I’m not one of them. I didn’t and no one in my family, or their descendants, own slaves, I have no horse in that race.

Let’s concede that there is still racism, that some groups and people like the KKK and Jeremiah Wright are racist and there’s not much we can do about it but protecting our kids from that particular ideology and taking it with a huge grain of salt.

Carry on my Typical White People, carry on.