While listening to NPR’s Morning Edition this past week I heard a story that offended, frightened and left me feeling more insecure about the future of the republic than ever. It also called to mind the words of one of my favorite philosophers and poets that I’ll discuss at the close of this blog.
Of course I’m making what I believe to be fairly safe assumptions about the woman. Since she was running for a prosecutor’s post I naturally assume she is a licensed attorney. Because she is/was a licensed attorney I felt compelled to assume she is a law school graduate. Which in turn compelled me to believe she is a college/university graduate.
The real leap of faith came in further assuming that since she is a licensed attorney she is at least 18 years of age. If so and running for office I further assumed she had voted before---at least once.
So imagine my surprise to hear the newly elected New Mexico governor share that at the point in time when she was preparing to run for district attorney as a democrat she had “a” discussion with GOPers and instantly experienced the epiphany that she, too, was really a GOPer!
Maybe it’s just me---but the idea that someone capped, gowned and diploma-ed (twice), licensed, voting and about to run for an office that impacts hundred’s if not thousands of lives comes late to the notion that she is really not what she thought. What am I missing?
As if having one more GOPer state governor wasn’t enough I then had to suffer the existence of Texas Red’s “w” clone governor and his absurd fringe element notions.
This is the guy who wants “smaller government” but wants to send chingos of U.S. troops to invade another sovereign nation of mostly brown people who are not in charge of anything. This time its Mexico. Mexico interestingly is run by Euro Anglos no different than those who have run things here for at least three centuries and really almost half a millennia.
Be that as it may---what’s smaller about massively increasing the U.S. military's involvement in foreign affairs? Maybe like “w” he just doesn’t realize that the military is a part of our government paid for with tax dollars. In the Texas’ governor’s defense that’s a very real possibility.
Or maybe he just thinks like “w” that if he keeps the proposed defense cost off the budget it will somehow cost less or the taxpayers won’t notice. (Hey, it worked for “w” didn’t it?) Recall this is the numbskull who laments the deficit, claims to have done so much for the people of the state while creating and carrying an $18 to 25B dollar one for Texas Red. Nice.
Or maybe he’s just using the “w”/Rove playbook on how to stay in office by invading sovereign nations without prior provocation. It does distract the compassionate conservative religiosities. And don’t forget that as Houdini put it, “What the eye’s see and the ear’s hear, the mind believes.” In the majority population that’s fairly much a given.
Oh and by the way this is the same guy who doesn’t like it when the “feds” tell him what to do. But he is more than willing to go and tell a sovereign nation what to do, how to do it and in fact is doing it for them? Hello! Is anybody home?
Of course it worked for “w” and being a “w” clone what’s a Euro Anglo whose prisons are filling up, jobs and majority population are on the wane to do? Maybe it’s a kind of last hoorah! The drowning swimmer's kick.
The only thing scarier than “w’s” clone is the state’s majority population of compassionate conservative Christians willing to reelect him to conduct himself as they---the majority population do in very un-Christ-like fashion. But don’t tell them that. They’ll just get p—sed-off and shoot you. Or maybe decide to declare you an illegal alien or an enemy combatant---throw you in one of ALEC’s “detention centers” or Guantanamo. Very Christ-like. The Christ did that to people all the time. Didn’t he?
At the outset of this blog entry I wrote that New Mexico’s new governor was surprised that a prosecutor
would be a GOPer as well (no surprise to me). I can’t let the opportunity pass to mention that only New
Mexico has worse healthcare for its citizens than Texas Red. It all makes sense in a twisted, tortured,
tormented way I suppose.
I mentioned that the words of one of my favorite philosopher/poets came to mind.
“Lord have mercy on the man who doubts what he’s sure of.”
From Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable apartheid public education, lack of healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way…
Hasta Siempre,
Hasta Siempre,
More:
http://www.examiner.com/bexar-county-elections-2010-in-san-antonio/frightened-confused-angry-hateful-gopers-vote-their-faith-amen
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