All Republicans are Fucking Liars

"At last we have more room to play.
All systems go to kill the poor tonight.

Gonna
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor.
kill kill kill Kill kill the poor
kill kill kill Kill kill the poor…Tonight"

The Dead Kennedy's 1980

All Republicans are Fucking Liars. Yes, I said it. Finally the truth is out. You think Republicans care about the deficit? What a laugh. The recent Congressional Budget Office report projects a 1.5 trillion deficit for the upcoming year, an increase of 400 billion from its previous projections. Why? Because of the renewal of the huge Bush era tax cuts. Yes, that's right. The Republicans actions caused a massive increase to the very thing they have stridently campaigned against. So obviously, when they are freakin' out about the deficit, they are fucking lying.

So what is their real agenda? Well, the first and most important thing is to preserve the wealthprivilege that is the perceived birthright of the uber-wealthy. There is a decade’s long trend of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Allowing extremely wealthy people to keep more money than they know what to do with is a detriment to our society at large.

The second part of their agenda is related to the first and becomes apparent after looking at what they are cutting from federal spending and that is to cut as much spending for the poor as they can. They are cutting every service that government offers. Do you think those services serve the wealthyprivileged? No, they serve the poor. Who is going to take the brunt of all this deficit reduction? That's right, the poor. Who is getting tax cuts? Oh yeah, I already mentioned that; the fucking rich. To the wealthyprivileged and their Republican (and sometimes Democrat) lackeys, the poor are never going away and any investment on the lower demographic is a waste of money that they should have. This also speaks to the essential racism of Republicans, because guess what? A high proportion of the poor are people of color and who gives a fuck about them. Never mind the poor white trailer trash. Fuck them too. They are only fodder for manipulation, the stupid fucking ignorant idiots (that probably is not very PC, sorry).

The third prong is the advancement of cultural agenda of the white man's wealthprivilege that is narrowly defined by their Judeo-Christian arrogance that has dominated and destroyed everything and everyone in its path for the last 600 years (ask a native american about immigrants). This allows Republicans to gay bash, to declare Obama’s birth certificate invalid and to call him a Muslim; to cut funding for Planned Parenthood and for heating aid for the poor; to build walls on our borders and to call those in dissent unpatriotic. If you don’t say the pledge of allegiance you’re unpatriotic. If you don’t wear a flag lapel then you are not a true American. If you don’t believe in ruining every last acre of global real estate in the pursuit of fossil fuel, then you must be a God-damned Commie. It is ultimately anti-freedom and anti-liberty and the very definition of tyranny.

And of course, we are also seeing a full court press on workers rights. Not only are Republicans wanting to maintain a large poverty class, they are also interested in destroying what’s left of our middle class. Events in Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and Idaho confirm this. All one needs to do is to see the motivations of such scumbags like Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers to see their nefarious trends.

Please, please, please be vigilant towards those who would like to steal our rights. Cut benefits for the poor and disadvantaged to balance the budget? Well at least tax the fucking rich. They need to pay a disproportionate amount because they are the only ones with any kind of discretionary money. I’m sorry, but they can wait another year to upgrade their Porsche SUV. The rest of us are struggling just to survive.

The Big Picture

Two articles from the past week have helped "connect the dots" with the recent and on-going world events. Paul Krugman makes the connection between the events in Tunisia and Egypt to the ongoing world food crisis to the obvious fact that climate change is starting to shape everyday life for every person on the planet "these severe weather events are exactly the kind of thing we’d expect to see as rising concentrations of greenhouse gases change our climate — which means that the current food price surge may be just the beginning." And Krugman has the grace to think beyond the bottom line and about those who are most affected "These soaring prices have had only a modest effect on U.S. inflation, which is still low by historical standards, but they’re having a brutal impact on the world’s poor, who spend much if not most of their income on basic foodstuffs.

John Michael Greer writes a superb blog called the Archdruid Report. He also makes the connection between the uprisings in the Middle East and severe weather events but also speaks about the inability of Americans to understand how an individual event fits into the context of the greater whole "The fixation on the fantasy of perpetual growth is only one of the system-related stupidities that infest contemporary American public life, though it’s arguably the most egregious." Greer's historically based vision of the next 50 years is a must read for anyone interested in pulling their head out of their ass long enough to take a look at our future.

Ultimately, the historical trends of resource depletion, climate change, environmental degradation, our culture based on exponential growth (take Chris Martenson's Crash Course to truly understand what this means) and what hardly anyone is talking about, overpopulation are all crashing into us at the same time. We must face the fundamental fact that the world as we know it is coming to an end (cue in REM). The golden age of consumption has reached its apex and like the top of the Superman ride at Six Flags, its all downhill from here. All we can hope for is to survive the descent with a modicum of grace and hope that no-one noticed that I was screaming like a 5 year old child the whole way down.