khan
Posts: 1554 Joined: May 2007
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Quote (stevestory @ Mar. 17 2013,20:32) | Erasmus asked if i partook of any tard during my hiatus. Well, yes, and no. I read hours of political analysis a day, and so I'm exposed, indirectly, to the Party of Stupid, but I actually can't directly listen anymore. When Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal, Mitch McTurtle, John Boner, etc, talk, I have to lunge for the volume knob, because everything they say is so stupid it feels like getting punched in the temple over and over.
Back when I was young and dumb(er), and the GOP was still as much William Buckley and George HW Bush and Brent Scowcroft etc., as it was the former Dixiecrats, I actually leaned republican. But the Southern Strategy, initiated by Nixon and Buchanan around 1960, really has reached it's culmination. One party is now utterly hostage to a shrinking demographic of about 27% of the public with no brains and shitty values. I didn't become a democrat, so much as the GOP became an insane asylum, and in a winner-take-all system, voting third party is either irrelevant or harmful. |
Even after Nixon I was still somewhat Republican; but they totally lost me with St Ronnie the Senile.
-------------- "It's as if all those words, in their hurry to escape from the loony, have fallen over each other, forming scrambled heaps of meaninglessness." -damitall
That's so fucking stupid it merits a wing in the museum of stupid. -midwifetoad
Frequency is just the plural of wavelength... -JoeG
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