I rarely use places like Facebook or my blog to tout my political views, but there is a face on the horizon that looms like Pennywise the Clown--you remember the fanged clown from Stephen King's "It"? Possibly the scaries motherfucker ever, aside from maybe this Michelle Bachmann. She is terrifying.
This woman thinks we can "pray the gay away." Ok, so lots of right wingers believe this. But it goes beyond this. She also thinks the hurricanes our coasts have been enduring as of later are the result of the U.S.'s crumbling economy? I have a very active imagination, and I cannot fathom any way that these two things can even be related, much less one the direct result of the other.
Just the fact that there are folks out there who support this kind of fruitcake is scary enough. The fact that she is a political front-runner does not speak well of Americans' education or common sense. Its not so common, after all, it turns out.
No wonder all the sane nations out there in the world think Americans are all morons. Look at who we vote for. Look at who we vote against. Why can't we get a politician in office who has a firm grasp on the reality of our problems and some real solutions, instead of these cockamamie dimwits who think "We all float down here"?
I can see how our dependence on and profligate use of fossil fuels has caused climate change, which would be what those storms are a symptom of. I can see how our economy is in shambles because of the big dogs who have it all, like the ones who own the fossil fuel drilling/shipping/refining businesses, the politicians and bankers who help them hedge their bets, and the mortgage brokers who pass around the debt like Monopoly money. And I can see how this all happened on the watch of a guy whose family owned/owns fossil fuel concerns and who fomented an unfunded war on another producer of fossil fuel, disguising personal concerns as public ones. We learned in science class that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Seems to me the storms and the economy are connected not in a causal way, but in a consequence kind of way. Kind of like a Bachmann presidency would be the consequence of defunding public education. But then I'm preaching to the choir, aren't I? Where the hell are the Democratic women with some sense and balls? Oh, wait, she's Secretary of State.
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