Nov 3rd, 2004, 02:27 PM
Bin Laden's current stated strategy is to bankrupt us, they way they did the soviets.
Republicans will never believe this, because A. Osama Bin Laden is a sack of shit, which is true
and B.) They believe Reagan won the cold war, and go no credit whatsoever to the economic implosion of Russia, much if it caused by Afghanistan, or Gorbachev's noble attempt to allow Russia to change as opposed to initiating the end of the world.
I think Bin Laden's strategy is dead on, and I think we're well on our way. W will be safely out of office long before we are so deep in debt we can no longer function as a country. Republicans will find a way to believe the blame lies with Democrats, who have wielded little or no power for the last for years, will wield less during the next four, and once the Supreme court is packed may well have none at all, see the redistrricting of Texas as a precursor.
America is a pendulum. I had hoped it had swung far enough to the right to begin swinging back, but hope was not enough. I fear strongly though, that by the time the pendulum does begins it's inevitable swing backward, the damage we've done oursel;ves and the world will be truly staggering.
I now begin my countdown to Neocon implosion, which I said months ago I believed would take place if Bush won. Their arrogance which was without precedent before they had a popular victory under their belts will no reach a level of Hubris of the kind Rome knew shortly before it's fall. There will be some here who will think I'll take pleasure in this, and as my character is not so strong as I might like, it's quite possible I will. But in my current moment of clarity, I know there is no pleasure to be taken in the sorrow, death, destruction and betrayal I honestly believe is coming.
For those of you who are younger than I am and think I'm overdoing, tat nothing major will change, that this is simply bitterness and paranoia, we have something in common. We both hope most sincerely you are right about that, and I am wrong.
I ask only that you all, whatever stripe, remeber this time at least what the man said on his way to the white house. He promised to cut the deficit in half. He promised Freedom was on the march. He promised there would be no draft. He said he was a good steward of the environment. He swore he was a friend to the middle class, and that the privitization of Social security would not be a disaster.
The Republican party, who has always enjoyed the role of underdog, now has more centralized consolidated raw power than at any time in my life. For at verty, very least two years, far more probably all four and beyond, the Republicans are responsible for our country. Be honest. Hold them accountable. Never forget, they serve us.
For those of us who are now lesser Americans, don't give up. Our vission of America is valid, the things we believe make America great are in danger and the moment when things seem hopeless is the last time to give up hope. There may come a moment, as it did for my great grandparents in Europe when the best you could do for the future was run with the clothes on your back. That moment has in now way yet arrived.
We're the underdog now. Undeniably. Rush and Ann will ahve to find another song to sing. America loves and underdog. Don't forget it.
Damn. I'll leave this here, but I'm going to give it it's own thread. It made me feel better.
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I don't get it. I mean, why did they fuck with the formula? Where are the car songs? There's only one song about surfing and it's a downer!
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