The Obama Hug---Revolution Watch

The election was exciting and I was pleased because it shows we have a very different country than some thought---like we are not all just white old people with a burr up our asses. I do believe we are our brother's keeper. It is about community and I think that is the Natural Way. It is in our genes. I feel good about it.

Still the other point of view has to be considered and while it seems to have this distant attachment to Ayn Rand and the idea of everybody for themselves, there must be more. Maybe it is the selfish streak, maybe it has to do with men wanting power as a way of expressing their sexual dominance. Quest for power? Greed is good? We hate different people because they do not fit out world view. Whatever?

This is something that caught my eye today. It is this odd struggle for power, the struggle between the right and the left and the inability of some folks to see the writing on the wall, the blindness, the desire to manipulate, the dysfunction that comes with the inability to compromise. Reaction to hidden fears? The list just goes on.

So what we have here is the front cover of the Economist. It is no secret that the Economist sees things off to the right or off in the direction of pure economics that seldom takes in the touchy-feely issues of people, the environment, or the actual conditions of a finite world. It is straight economics in the neo-classic view. Sadly, economics is in the philosophy department and not the science field. It is just a bunch of guesses, not science and frankly based on a false premise that we can have never ending exponential growth in a very finite world.

This is sorta beside the point because the issue with the magazine is the implication of the heading. "Now, hug a Republican" I mean why in the hell don't they show Mitch McConnell with the heading, "Listen dipshit, stop saying that your sole objective is to make Obama fail and hug a Democrat." The economist heading implies it is the liberals fault, not that they are totally innocent, but come on, it is the Republicans who have refused to embrace one single thing the Democrats have proposed---even if the issue was one they earlier had introduced.

Another part of it shocks me. The Democrats WON you idiots. The conservatives ideas are nonsense and shown for years not to work, why should you now be telling the Dems to hug a Repugnation. They won! Do they want an act of compassion while the $300-million-Rove is disgusting in his behavior while being pummeled. Hug a Republican, give me a fucking break.