Guess what? I would like my country back, too: the country where a unanimous Supreme Court decided the year I was born that "separate but equal" was the crock of shit that every southern cracker knew it was; the country that once elected as president a Republican military leader who knew what a crock of shit was capable of being brewed by the military-industrial complex and who had absolutely no fear of saying so.
Yet, since Barack Hussein Obama's (virtually untainted) election as our 44th Commander in Chief, the incessant sniping of the minions opposed to him has been largely a constant chorus of "I want my country back!" and variations on that theme.
Sue me if I am wrong, but this statement reeks out loud of racism, bigotry and Reaganesque delusions. It is a celebration of the unreformed Archie Bunker, an endorsement of Reagan's "young buck standing in line for his welfare check and food stamps," a hearty "amen" to Bush I's "carping, little, liberal Democrats."
Add in the blind hatred of William J. and Hillary R. Clinton, the equally blind devotion to the "free" market as envisioned by Ayn Rand and Alan Greenspan -- woefully inarticulated and disastrously implemented by Bush II -- and you have the recipe for our current quagmire.
What will it take for the misguided supporters of the likes of Sarah Palin to see that they have been had? Forty percent unemployment? Another Civil War? A nuclear apocalypse? A "rapture"? Fox News actually presenting a "fair and balanced" newscast? How about Rush Limbaugh apologizing on his deathbed ala Lee Atwater? Just for the sake of argument, I would wager that even if any these fantasy scenarios were to occur, it wouldn't change enough high-school-Republican minds to alter the outcome of a single congressional district race anywhere in the country.
Don't believe me? Then prove me wrong. Do any of them read anything? Or do they read "everything," just like Saint Sarah the snowbilly grifter? How the fuck did we become a nation of nitwits? Is half the population congenitally stupid?
Apparently, hindsight is not 20/20 for a rather large segment of these United States.
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