I read in The Independent today that the Republican Party in America are running an unofficial smear campaign against Democrats with big leads in the run-up to the mid-term elections on November 7th, accusing several of them, bizarrely, of encouraging paedophilia in many and tenuous ways. What?! Yes. Paedophilia. And how are they encouraging it? By going on marches attended by paedos. Or by endorsing civil liberties organisations who have defended the right of NAMBLA (National American Man Boy Love Association), to talk complete bollocks in a democratic society (did you know kindly old owl-like Allen Ginsberg was in NAMBLA by the way?)
This is a hopeful sign for America. It is such an act of impotent desperation on the part of the Republicans to adopt these disreputable, sleazy tactics to defeat their (slightly) more liberal counterparts, it demonstrates beyond any doubt that the cause has been lost: these crazed evangelical dunces have lost the puritanical new white world they were trying to build, and in their grief they have turned in on themselves like murderers. But my God, suppose for a minute that these tactics work, and just enough voters fall for it to return just enough Republicans to keep a degree of power in the conservative camp? What choice to the Democrats have then but to climb down into the slimey pit and start doctoring photos to show George Bush having sex with animals?
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I hope the Dems can rise above and see beyond the desperate Rep. smear tactics...unfortunately, these days I think it's become a crap shoot...they are just as likely to resort to the same dirty pool not to mention, I don't think their dirty laundry is any better either...
It's a sad state of affairs...
Isn't it? I don't know what impact it has over there, but over here it's this kind of dirty politics that causes voters to lose faith in the politicians, and not vote. That and--I suppose--the fact that the system as it is doesn't provide a genuine choice. Can you cast a vote against Iraq/ against Guantanamo on Nov 7th? All the political parties want Guantanamo to be shut down over here, but the Conservative Party, who are more or less the equivalent of the Republicans, won't be demanding a withdrawal of troops from Iraq if they get elected in '07 or '08 (I have a nasty feeling we may still be there). They shake their heads disapprovingly about the occupation, but what they actually want to happen now is anybody's guess. And they supported the invasion in the first place (when all sane people knew it was wrong).
It's the same issues here...maybe on different levels at different times but not anthing to split hairs about...Maybe because I am "here" and you are "there"...our perceptions are simply influenced by what we see and hear everyday in our own media...To me though, it sounds like Americans, although I think are opening their eyes finally...still have a large number of people whose heads are either still buried in the sand...or buried somewhere else dark...I am amazed at the numbers of people I come in contact with who still feel we are doing the world good by being in Iraq...and accuse others of being unpatriotic at the thought of withdrawal...It doesn't sound quite as delusional in the eyes of the people in the U.K., but like I said, that may just be ethnocentric perception on my part...
Politicians...what used to be seen as "Leaders" have become so disengaged from the realities of the majority...in the end...amongst things like mistrust, hopelessness, and apathy...those things keep people from voting...Unfortunately, those whose voter turnout is most unrepresented? young adults...the ones who should be loudest...the ones who are seemingly breeding like it's going out of style...the ones who are to raise those children in this mess we have...Those are the voices who stayed home during the last presidential election to watch Survivor or American Idol while Bush's people made a smart move by capitalizing on the then present issue of "same sex marriages"..bringing out all of the evangelists and holy rollers to the polls to save us from ourselves...Iraquis who??? Bin Laden Who??? Let's talk Ellen Degeneres and Rosie O'Donnell instead..........
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