More on how people really act
Here's my reasoning. The reason you have to understand human nature is because people believe shit about how people act that just isn't true.
Take, for instance, the people I know who are STILL republican. Can you think of anything more stupid? I mean, hell, be republican later when they work the kinks out; yeah I get that, but sitting there with a straight face and telling me that the President and his goons aren't fucking goons or that the country is still in control of its freedoms or that we should be in Iraq, these are not debatable positions. These people might as well be telling me that the best place to try on a bathing suit is in the dark reaches of space just beyond our solar system. It isn't that they're wrong, its that they're wrong for even thinking that they might be right, and then they're also not right so they're wrong at that too.
Well, why do these people think this way. Well, here's their deal, or at least here's the deal for a lot of them. They have a vision in their head that the person who is the president is the person who loves democracy more than anyone else, even more than they do. His love of democracy gives him a special insight into democracy that may seem, to people who love democracy less, unpatriotic, tyranical, or criminal. Their reasoning is: why would someone seek out the job of US President who didn't love democracy.
This comes from a total lack of understanding of how shit works. You become US President because your company needs an army, because your corporate goals require armed force, because the people who you're trying to bribe no longer need money (they need pardons, jobs in the state department, laws which villify their enemies). In short, it is possible that the person who wants to be president has the exact opposite of love for his country
Real people use opportunities, and for a lot of people nothing, not even the office of the president, is sacred.
Take, for instance, the people I know who are STILL republican. Can you think of anything more stupid? I mean, hell, be republican later when they work the kinks out; yeah I get that, but sitting there with a straight face and telling me that the President and his goons aren't fucking goons or that the country is still in control of its freedoms or that we should be in Iraq, these are not debatable positions. These people might as well be telling me that the best place to try on a bathing suit is in the dark reaches of space just beyond our solar system. It isn't that they're wrong, its that they're wrong for even thinking that they might be right, and then they're also not right so they're wrong at that too.
Well, why do these people think this way. Well, here's their deal, or at least here's the deal for a lot of them. They have a vision in their head that the person who is the president is the person who loves democracy more than anyone else, even more than they do. His love of democracy gives him a special insight into democracy that may seem, to people who love democracy less, unpatriotic, tyranical, or criminal. Their reasoning is: why would someone seek out the job of US President who didn't love democracy.
This comes from a total lack of understanding of how shit works. You become US President because your company needs an army, because your corporate goals require armed force, because the people who you're trying to bribe no longer need money (they need pardons, jobs in the state department, laws which villify their enemies). In short, it is possible that the person who wants to be president has the exact opposite of love for his country
Real people use opportunities, and for a lot of people nothing, not even the office of the president, is sacred.
posted by Monstro D. Whale at
2:17 PM
2 Comments:
Personally, I'm continually baffled by the two-party system, how the majority of folks seem either wholly liberal or wholly conservative, how damn near 50% of the country is red and damn near 50% blue. Where are the independents, the libertarians? Why don't we see candidates who are "fiscally conservative" and yet also "socially liberal"? Why must everything be party-line politics? Why can't we decide each issue on its own merits?
Yeah, it's more than a little bit retarded. If we could get the religious right to split off and form their own party we'd all be better off. The democrats also need a split, since they can't find cohesive ground to stand on. The two-party system is antiquated, but still exists since it sets up a dichotomous situation. Us or Them.
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