Thursday, July 19, 2001
I'm back. Though I'm sure you didn't notice. I can't see anybody reading the stuff I write on a daily basis. Luckily, I haven't been in a coma. I've been awake this whole time, watching the country spin down toward earth again. Am I the only one who finds it funny that the United States (rumor has it that the US is supposed to be some kind of land of the free) is one of the least free countries in the world right now. Now here's why:
You can't run an empire if your subjects are free to think.
The week Bush took office, we were the most prosperous we'd ever been. Stocks were up. The common man had not trouble putting food on the table.
The week AFTER Bush took office: recession. Now, I can almost stay awake when Republicans attempt to take all the credit for all the prosperity we'd been having. And I could possibly stomach hearing a conservative company man telling me everything bad that's happened since Clinton vanished is the work of the now-minority Democrats.
But you can't have them both at once. I mean, if the Republicans can make the country as prosperous as hell when they're the minority, and the country sinks into recession when they're in power, what the fuck do they want to be the majority?
It is a rule to live by, actually. The number one political rule. Don't trust anything that comes from the assholes with the money. Because once you get money and power, your number one priority is keeping that money and power. Everything else takes a back seat. And if you think lying to the common man isn't the play used most often by these fucks, you best think again.
And anybody who says different is probably trying to sell you something that doesn't work.
P.S. Don't trust the Democrats either, but give me somebody who doesn't want to turn my planet into a sewer so that he can get rich any day of the fucking week. I don't care how many interns he fucks. I don't care if it's Wilt Chamberlain or Larry Flynt. Don't poison my water supply with arsenic (because it's cheaper than disposing of it legally) and you've got my vote.
Treat Democrats like the friends you know you can't trust.