12th November 2012, 5:16 PM
So I'm hearing lately that twenty states are petitioning to secede from the union since President Obama was reelected Tuesday night. Although I doubt this crock of cow dung will come to fruition, if it did, hypothetically speaking, I would be directly impacted by it, being a native and resident Alabamian. The Republicans would be quick to cut off my student loans, so I would have to finish graduate school (and pursue a Ph.D) elsewhere. My only choice would be to move back to the United States.
My question then is... why? Why is there so much talk of secession? What is it about Obama that makes him the most unbearably, god-awfully, indisputably worst president of all time, as well as Hitler reincarnated, the Anti-Christ, etc.? What has he done that is so catastrophically appalling that we would have to break away from the union? Don't get me wrong--it's fine to disagree with him, it's fine to criticize his policies, it's fine to just plain dislike him and to have voted for Romney. That's the beauty of living in a free, democratic society: you don't have to pretend to like your leader and you can vote for someone else. Sometimes, though, you have to tolerate having a leader you don't like. I didn't like George W. Bush, but I survived eight years of him and I made the most of my life during his administration. But back to Obama--yes, the deficit is a problem; yes, the economic recovery is sluggish; yes, the housing market is in a bind (the inverse effect of deregulating the banks). These are all genuine concerns, but it's not as if Obama hasn't tried to resolve these issues, his biggest obstacle being Republican obstructionism.
So then why? Have Fox News and conservative talk radio so successfully painted their picture of Adolf Obama that the ignorant masses are now seriously petitioning for secession? Weren't these idiots trying to pass themselves off as patriotic Americans just a week ago, and throughout the midterms, etc.? Secession isn't patriotic--it's treason. They try to compare themselves to the Founding Fathers in that regard, but the Founding Fathers did not try to pass themselves off as patriotic Englishmen, and they knew that they would be labelled as traitors to the English crown. Furthermore, their issue was taxation without representation, about not having a voice in the government. Damn straight conservatives have a voice in the American government and media. What exactly is their beef? A healthcare mandate. Is Obama overreaching the constitutional authority of the federal government as outlined in the tenth amendment? Yes, he is (despite what the Supreme Court says). Are his intentions evil? Is this a diabolical scheme to turn America communist? No. That is the image that Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have painted of Barack Obama, and it's the image these idiots believe in. He's a Kenyan Muslim Socialist who wants to destroy America from the inside out, rather than the duly elected leader of the free world.
What gets me is that these idiots don't know that they've been brainwashed. They actually believe that they're free thinkers. If you fact check them with a website such as Snopes or Politifact, they'll accuse you of drinking the Kool-Aid and say that Snopes and Politifact are run by liberals (both sites run fact checks on lies that are made about conservative politicians as well, mind you). They believe in this myth called the liberal media. They believe that everyone else is brainwashed, and they're among the select few who are intelligent enough to resist the mind-controlling powers of MSNBC and Michael Moore. They believe whatever they want to believe if it suits their political agenda. They believe those stupid chain letters they get from their co-workers and distant cousins about the healthcare mandate killing old people. The most dangerous thing about these idiots is that THEY DON'T KNOW THAT THEY'RE IDIOTS. THEY THINK THEY'RE THE INTELLIGENT ONES.
It's going to be an interesting four years, I'll tell you that.
My question then is... why? Why is there so much talk of secession? What is it about Obama that makes him the most unbearably, god-awfully, indisputably worst president of all time, as well as Hitler reincarnated, the Anti-Christ, etc.? What has he done that is so catastrophically appalling that we would have to break away from the union? Don't get me wrong--it's fine to disagree with him, it's fine to criticize his policies, it's fine to just plain dislike him and to have voted for Romney. That's the beauty of living in a free, democratic society: you don't have to pretend to like your leader and you can vote for someone else. Sometimes, though, you have to tolerate having a leader you don't like. I didn't like George W. Bush, but I survived eight years of him and I made the most of my life during his administration. But back to Obama--yes, the deficit is a problem; yes, the economic recovery is sluggish; yes, the housing market is in a bind (the inverse effect of deregulating the banks). These are all genuine concerns, but it's not as if Obama hasn't tried to resolve these issues, his biggest obstacle being Republican obstructionism.
So then why? Have Fox News and conservative talk radio so successfully painted their picture of Adolf Obama that the ignorant masses are now seriously petitioning for secession? Weren't these idiots trying to pass themselves off as patriotic Americans just a week ago, and throughout the midterms, etc.? Secession isn't patriotic--it's treason. They try to compare themselves to the Founding Fathers in that regard, but the Founding Fathers did not try to pass themselves off as patriotic Englishmen, and they knew that they would be labelled as traitors to the English crown. Furthermore, their issue was taxation without representation, about not having a voice in the government. Damn straight conservatives have a voice in the American government and media. What exactly is their beef? A healthcare mandate. Is Obama overreaching the constitutional authority of the federal government as outlined in the tenth amendment? Yes, he is (despite what the Supreme Court says). Are his intentions evil? Is this a diabolical scheme to turn America communist? No. That is the image that Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have painted of Barack Obama, and it's the image these idiots believe in. He's a Kenyan Muslim Socialist who wants to destroy America from the inside out, rather than the duly elected leader of the free world.
What gets me is that these idiots don't know that they've been brainwashed. They actually believe that they're free thinkers. If you fact check them with a website such as Snopes or Politifact, they'll accuse you of drinking the Kool-Aid and say that Snopes and Politifact are run by liberals (both sites run fact checks on lies that are made about conservative politicians as well, mind you). They believe in this myth called the liberal media. They believe that everyone else is brainwashed, and they're among the select few who are intelligent enough to resist the mind-controlling powers of MSNBC and Michael Moore. They believe whatever they want to believe if it suits their political agenda. They believe those stupid chain letters they get from their co-workers and distant cousins about the healthcare mandate killing old people. The most dangerous thing about these idiots is that THEY DON'T KNOW THAT THEY'RE IDIOTS. THEY THINK THEY'RE THE INTELLIGENT ONES.
It's going to be an interesting four years, I'll tell you that.