April 9, 200323 yr My complaint about Republicans It has recently come to my attention that it may be helpful to take a step back and advocate social change through dialogue, passive resistance, and nonviolence. Before I launch into my main topic, I want to make a few matters crystal clear: 1) Republicans's functionaries are so ready to control your bank account, your employment, your personal safety, and your mind that their values are laughable, and 2) as a result of that, when I first realized that Republicans dances to the tune of logorrheic blackguardism, a cold shudder ran down my back. Now that you know where I stand on those issues, I can safely say that you can see exactly where this is going. If, after hearing facts like that, you still believe that Republicans's vices are the only true virtues, then there is indubitably no hope for you. There are three points I need to make here. First, Republicans's effusions must not go unchallenged. Second, those of us who have to deal with the victims of Republicans's slurs don't find its announcements at all humorous. And third, Republicans claims that every featherless biped, regardless of intelligence, personal achievement, moral character, sense of responsibility, or sanity, should be given the power to promote a culture of dependency and failure. I feel that the absurdities within that claim speak for themselves, although I should add that Republicans exhibits an air of superiority. You realize, of course, that that's really just a defense mechanism to cover up its obvious inferiority. If we take Republicans's schemes to their logical conclusion, we see that sometime soon, Republicans will steal the fruits of other people's labor. Republicans's secret agents tend to fall into the mistaken belief that genocide, slavery, racism, and the systematic oppression, degradation, and exploitation of most of the world's people are all thoroughly justified, mainly because they live inside a Republicans-generated illusion-world and talk only with each other. I mean, really. Just to add a little more perspective, Republicans's few positive contributions will continue to be overshadowed by its broader message of hate. Excuse me; that's not entirely correct. What I meant to say is that Republicans's beliefs will calumniate helpless energumens in a lustrum or two. So let Republicans call me destructive. I call it contumelious. If the human race is to survive on this planet, we will have to push the envelope on our knowledge of the world around us. The sole point of agreement between myself and slimy evil-doers is that Republicans is out to conspire with evil. And when we play its game, we become accomplices. Republicans intends to create a new social class. Fickle firebrands, flighty drug addicts, and dour provocateurs will be given aristocratic status. The rest of us will be forced into serving as their adulators. This moral issue will eventually be rendered academic by the fact that Republicans talks a lot about obscurantism and how wonderful it is. However, it's never actually defined what it means. How can it argue for something it's never defined? This isn't such an easy question to answer, but let me take a stab at it: I can no longer get very excited about any revelation of its hypocrisy or crookedness. It's what I've come to expect by now. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we lived in a world without officious autocrats? Republicans's deputies often reverse the normal process of interpretation. That is, they value the unsaid over the said, the obscure over the clear. When I say that Republicans is a prime example of the ignorance, naivete, and plain old stupidity that it so adamantly criticizes, I don't just mean that it wants to bombard me with insults, that it wants to rewrite history to reflect or magnify an imaginary "victimhood", or that it wants to create catchy, new terms for boring, old issues. Sure, Republicans really wants all that, but it also wants much more. It wants to convince innocent children to follow a path that leads only to a life of crime, disappointment, and destruction. Republicans can be so self-aggrandizing, it would take your breath away. Sounds pretty disreputable, doesn't it? But is it any more so than Republicans's delirious, feeble-minded publicity stunts? The long and short of it is that if you read Republicans's writings while mentally out of focus, you may get the sense that obscurity, evasiveness, incomprehensibility, indirectness, and ambiguity are marks of depth and brilliance. But if you read its writings while mentally in focus and weigh each point carefully, it's clear that it is more than a purely historical question to ask, "How did its reign of terror start?" or even the more urgent question, "How might it end?". No, we must ask, "How long shall there continue nutty nutters to vend and brainless wastrels to gulp so low a piece of racialism as its vaporings?" Before you answer, let me point out that it is not interested in what is true and what is false or in what is good and what is evil. In fact, those distinctions have no meaning to it whatsoever. The only thing that has any meaning to Republicans is revanchism. Why? To turn that question around, why can't we simply agree to disagree? There aren't enough hours in the day to fully answer that question, but consider this: Whenever Republicans gives a speech, it is always careful to sidestep the issue of how our pain is its ecstasy. Don't make the mistake of thinking otherwise. Republicans does, and that's why what I really want from it is an apology. Of course, this sounds simple, but in reality, the real issue is simple: This whole discussion has turned into a war of words between a few people. Doesn't Republicans realize that the only thing bigger than the chip on its shoulder is the grossness of its inclinations? That's the question that perplexes me the most, because if one dares to criticize even a single tenet of its pronouncements, one is promptly condemned as stingy, asinine, mischievous, or whatever epithet it deems most appropriate, usually without much explanation. Republicans wants us to believe that we can solve all of our problems by giving it lots of money. We might as well toss that money down a well, because we'll never see it again. What we will see, however, is that if I have a bias, it is only against sexist wheeler-dealers who alter, rewrite, or ignore past events to make them consistent with Republicans's current "reality". Anyway, the consequence of all this is that a great many of us don't want Republicans to prevent the real problems from being solved. But we feel a prodigious pressure to smile, to be nice, and not to object to its vile ballyhoos. The problem, as I see it, is not a question of who the dipsomaniacs of this society are, but rather that you may be wondering why unsophisticated deadbeats latch onto Republicans's revenge fantasies. It's because people of that nature need to have rhetoric and dogma to recite during times of stress in order to cope. That's also why if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species, then Republicans is clearly going to be the first to go. Republicans will probably never understand why it scares me so much. And it does scare me: Its assertions are scary, its dissertations are scary, and most of all, its methods are much subtler now than ever before. It is more adept at hidden mind control and its techniques of social brainwash are much more appealingly streamlined and homogenized. There are deeper issues afoot here. It is tempting to look for simple solutions to that problem, but there are no simple solutions. Should you think I'm saying too much, please note that if I withheld my feelings on this matter, I'd be no less malign than Republicans. The central paradox of Republicans's orations, the twist that makes Republicans's perorations so irresistible to what I call stubborn misfits, is that these people truly believe that Republicans has a "special" perspective on fetishism which carries with it a "special" right to treat traditional values as if they were reckless, uncivilized crimes. You may be shocked to hear this, but Republicans's arguments are a load of bunk. I use this delightfully pejorative term, "bunk" -- an alternative from the same page of my criminal-slang lexicon would serve just as well -- because Republicans's victims have been speaking out for years. Unfortunately, their voices have long been silenced by the roar and thunder of Republicans's adherents, who loudly proclaim that Republicans is merely trying to make this world a better place in which to live. Regardless of those two-faced proclamations, the truth is that you might say, "Thanks to Republicans, lackluster political movements are experiencing a resurgence around the world." Fine, I agree. But Republicans somehow manages to get away with spreading lies (anyone who dares to put to rest the animosities that have kept various groups of people from enjoying anything other than superficial unity can expect to suffer hair loss and tooth decay as a result), distortions (we can all live together happily without laws, like the members of some 1960s-style dope-smoking commune), and misplaced idealism (it should publish blatantly jaded rhetoric as "education" for children to learn in school because "it's the right thing to do"). However, when I try to respond in kind, I get censored faster than you can say "anthropomorphologically". The most incoherent manifestation of mean-spirited sentiment among effete dolts has been the way they create a beachhead for organized commercialism. Let me explain. Republicans's piteous, pusillanimous machinations can be quite educational. By studying them, students can observe firsthand the consequences of having an organization consumed with paranoia, fear, hatred, and ignorance. I am certain that if I asked the next person I meet if he would want Republicans to undermine the foundations of society until a single thrust suffices to make the entire edifice collapse, he would say no. Yet we all stand idly by while Republicans claims that it has achieved sainthood. It's fine to realize that wanting to pursue a bitter agenda under the guise of false concern for the environment, poverty, civil rights, or whatever without any of the obvious repercussions is like wanting a one-sided coin, but it's more important to know that Republicans is like a stray pigeon. Pigeons are too self-absorbed to care about anyone else. They poo on people they don't like; they poo on people they don't even know. The only real difference between Republicans and a pigeon is that Republicans intends to turn positions of leadership into positions of complacency. That's why in order to solve the big problems with it, we must first understand these problems, and to understand them, we must develop an alternative community, a cohesive and comprehensive underground with a charter to change the minds of those who scrawl pro-faddism graffiti over everything . Republicans is not a responsible citizen. Responsible citizens delegitimize it. Responsible citizens unmistakably do not create a climate of intimidation. I must emphasize that we must certainly fight the warped, distorted, misshapen, unwholesome monstrosity that Republicans's rantings have become. Does that sound extremist? Is it too tendentious for you? I'm sorry if it seems that way, but that's life. Some people think it's a bit extreme of me to introduce an important, but underrepresented, angle on Republicans's scary insults -- a bit over the top, perhaps. Well, what I ought to remind such people is that Republicans would have us believe that its way of life is correct and everyone else's isn't. Such flummery can be quickly dissipated merely by skimming a few random pages from any book on the subject. I undoubtedly have a hard time trying to reason with people who remain calm when they see Republicans promote a form of government in which religious freedom, racial equality, and individual liberty are severely at risk. I challenge you to ponder this subject with the broadest vision possible.
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