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here's the deal. there are two primary sites i read for information about the pulse of american net/grass roots politics. the liberal one is dailykos.com, the conservative one is redstate.org. im a libertarian personally. with enough noise from both sides, i can discern some kind of signal.

a majority of posters at redstate are fundamentalist christian conservatives. these men are the pharisees of modern america; american taliban like pat robertson who call for nuking the state department and assassinating hugo chavez. if jesus came back today, he'd be the bastard of an unwed, lower class mother. he'd be on welfare, and forced to flee cultural oppressions to survive; only to confront them, and be put to death in an electric chair for "hating america" and treason or terrorism; whatever was convenient.

to quote Nick Danger, a moderator of redstate.org:

No Purina Human Chow

Go away. I do not want to hear another word about how the poor were "left" to brutal neighborhoods, or how their neighborhoods were "left" in some state, or that the poor were "left to languish" somewhere.

These people are not your pets. They are human beings. It is not your place to feed them, to house them, to clothe them, or to "take care of them" as if they were children or morons.

To the extent that they got whacked by a hurricane or a flood, yes, by all means, we must help them get past that. But then we are done with them, as we must be if they are to have any human dignity.

If there is one benefit to this gradual rightward tilt this country has been experiencing, it is the end of this business of liberal do-gooders keeping vast numbers of human beings as pets.

There will be no more of it. So forget about it.

the overwhelming ignorance displayed is mind boggling. a large majority of people stayed in new orleans for two reasons - they either had no means of leaving the city, via buses, trains or cars; or, they feared that what little they had would be stolen or destroyed in the ensuing chaos. why not tough it out and save what you have? then theres the matter of 30 bodies found in a nursing home - how were THEY to pack their bags and be off to... where?

all levels of the government failed us. trying to spin any aspect of the catastrophic lack of planning and execution of emergency plans for katrina's eventual occurence into political gain is wrong. blatant, mindblank denial of the breakdowns is unexcusable. FEMA now falls under dept homeland security, downgraded from a cabinet level position after 9/11. mr chertoff (dept hs) and mr brown (fema) should both be fired for brazen incompetence. the consequences would be no less severe if al qaeda or some other terrorist group blew up the levees in nola. indeed, they'd be far worse, as the rich and middle class would be caught as well - without warning, just like the san francisco earthquake in 1906. the same disaster where they had troops on the scene, detonating houses to create firebreaks within the very day. this was scores of years before cell phones, email and satellites.

the goal is simple now: save lives. save as many as we can. there are still people dying, and we're going to be turning up bodies for weeks, if not months. i believe the state government is considering buying a massive plot for burials of all the victims (could be the locals though). then accountability comes. we dont need a republican, democrat or bipartisan committee to investigate the mistakes that occured; we require some real action. the mistakes are inexcusable, the lesson to be learned is inimitable: the government no longer cares for or executes its basic duties; the conduct of both parties is inexcusable, there is no real dissent or difference discernible to the unconcerned eye. subtle differences exist, with which to polarize and divide the populace into voting blocs.

need i remind us of the declaration of independence, one of the crowning moments of american democracy?

"we hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government ...all experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invaraibly the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such a government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

the tide of ignorance drags on, thinly veiled in institutional wisdom. do we not require new, innovative solutions to our new problems? can we expect these answers to come from indoctrinated intelligences that dealt with problems in the past, and did it terribly? "the real problems in our world are not being confronted by those in power. in the guise of public service, they use whatever comes to hand for personal gain. they are insane with and for power ... the attack by those who want to die - this is the attack against which you cannot prepare a perfect defense." - the dosadi experiment.

so tell me, what is to be done? shall i surrender hopes of resurrecting the glory of american freedom? other countries exist where freedom has a larger scope, where one could reasonably expect to affect a positive change in the government. i feel helpless in america, i despair that our country is already treading the road to fascism and despotism that all governments eventually degrade into.

i guess i just hate america :/