It's good I don't own a gun. That's because when the revolution comes there are a few neighbors and former friends I would have to kill.
Being basically a peaceful person (save for a brief period during my military training many years ago), these feelings of violence have puzzled me. But tracing them backwards, I now realize they began their rebirth in me sometime in late 2000 or early 2001.
As for the extreme harm I sometimes fantasize doing, I wish to thank Border Explorer for forwarding the following enlightening self-psychoanalytic list, "To Be a Republican." It triggered, for me, some of the suppressed feelings I originally expressed two and 1/2 years ago that are now amplifying. Strong feelings of why, if you don't choose your friends carefully, when the revolution comes, you may have to kill them!
To Be a Republican...
Being basically a peaceful person (save for a brief period during my military training many years ago), these feelings of violence have puzzled me. But tracing them backwards, I now realize they began their rebirth in me sometime in late 2000 or early 2001.
As for the extreme harm I sometimes fantasize doing, I wish to thank Border Explorer for forwarding the following enlightening self-psychoanalytic list, "To Be a Republican." It triggered, for me, some of the suppressed feelings I originally expressed two and 1/2 years ago that are now amplifying. Strong feelings of why, if you don't choose your friends carefully, when the revolution comes, you may have to kill them!
To Be a Republican...
To be a Republican you need to believe:
1. Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of
homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.
2. Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a
bad guy when Bush's Daddy made war on him, a good
guy when Cheney did business with him, and a bad guy
when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden"
diversion.
3. Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is
Communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital
4. The United States should get out of the United
Nations, and our highest national priority is
enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq (and Iran).
5. A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her
own body, but multinational drug corporations can
make decisions affecting all mankind without
regulation.
6. The best way to improve military morale is to
praise the troops in speeches, while slashing
veterans' benefits and combat pay.
7. If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents
won't have sex.
8. A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our
longtime allies, then demand their cooperation and
money.
9. Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound
policy, but providing health care to all Americans
is socialism. HMO's and insurance companies have the
best interests of the public at heart.
10. Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are
junk science, but creationism should be taught in
schools.
11. A president lying about an extramarital affair
is an impeachable offense, but a president lying to
enlist support for a war in which thousands die is
solid defense policy.
12. Government should limit itself to the powers
named in the Constitution, which include banning gay
marriages and censoring the Internet.
13. The public has a right to know about Hillary's
cattle trades, but George Bush's driving record is
none of our business.
14. Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a
crime, unless you're a conservative radio host. Then
it's an illness and you need our prayers for your
recovery.
15. Supporting "Executive Privilege" for every
Republican ever born, who will be born or who might
be born (in perpetuity.)
16. What Bill Clinton did in the 1960's is of vital
national interest, but what Bush did in the '80's is
irrelevant.
17. Support for hunters who shoot their friends and
blame them for wearing orange vests similar to those
worn by the quail.
2 comments:
I have tried to find those passages in the bible, about hatred being a value, war being good & how jeezus loves the moneychangers, but I have not been successful.
Maybe Mitt Romney & Huckabee can set me straight? They put the "fun" in fundamentalism- right?
The "Republicanisms" are right on!
Oh, your link to the 2005 post has an extra l in html so you can't get there very easily. However, I enjoyed it, especially little Buddy's contributions to the dinner conversation. Has it really been almost three years since Moyers' speech? It's worth posting every month or so for the shear pleasure of an intellectual rant -- or a profile in courage!
Oh, don't invite The Conservatives over for holiday cheer; they're sure to muck it up. LOL!
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