Misanthropy Today

1. A Two Party System is inherently flawed.

Usually you hear this argument from members of some tiny political party, the Green Party for instance, or just some idiot hippy who wants to SHAKE UP THE SYSTEM, MAN.

For awhile, this was one of those cliches that someone who didn’t know anything about politics would say to shift the conversational gears to something else.

Today’s version of this is “Bush is just an idiot” or “We just need a new President”.

The latter statement almost psychic if not for the two-term limit on the presidency, ensuring without a doubt someone new will be President this year.

Back to the flawed two party system: what is flawed about it? I think it’s actually brilliant that there are only two parties. A country like Italy has some 15 major political parties. What happens every election? A little less than 15/16ths of the country is pissed instead of just 45% of the country being pissed.

Besides that, some pretty scary parties have almost won in recent elections (Green Nationalists [their logo is a swastika]).

Two parties keeps our country safe from this type of thing. Because there are only two, each party must gravitate to the middle ideologically.  This pretty much means following the path set by our founding fathers, which everyone can agree upon is a good government blueprint (which is sort of a miracle that it was written so flawlessly that it still works a hundred years later).

2. The President Doesn’t Do That Much

The apologia usually offered for not voting in the presidential elections, this is like saying that a CEO doesn’t have much impact on a company, as the jobs are very similar structurally. Sure, a great CEO or President can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit (see 9/11, iraq, Great Depression, etc) and a hapless President couldn’t mess up a great thing if he tried (see #7), but they do have a very real impact on the country.

Also, they are the leader of every military branch. Meaning, George W Bush has 8 years military service at the highest level. He could tell any military person to drop and give him 20, and they’d have to.

If you don’t know what the president’s powers and duties are, they’re written down somewhere (Article II of The Constitution).

3. Universal Health Care In The US Would Work

Forget all the rhetoric. Universal health care wouldn’t change a thing. If you get hurt and don’t have insurance you go to the city, county, or state hospital. They have to treat you. Do you get crap service? Yeah, but you’d get the same crap service anyhow. The players would remain unchanged should the government fund it (which, um, aren’t they are already in these cases?).
I live in California. This is the bastion of liberal thought and bureaucracy. In college I did not have health insurance. I had a wisdom tooth causing some pretty serious discomfort. The indignity and hassle involved in getting this procedure done (a $150 procedure, btw) was appalling. I was at the county hospital for 8 hours waiting around in pain, being treated rudely by lazy county workers who i’d one day pay the salary of.

In California we have MediCal for anyone who is poor (it helps if you’re a minority or have children– I was pretty broke but couldn’t qualify). It’s state funded health insurance. You get any care you need. But, because it’s presided over by the government its a mess and would be a bigger, unwieldlier mess if it were on a larger scale.

Sure medicine is good, and also very necessary. So is food. If the government took over the sandwich business do you suppose sandwiches would be better?

3. Big Medical/Pharma Companies Is Blocking Universal Health Care

Quite the contrary. To use California as an example again, several years ago Auto Insurance became required by law to drive a car. Sure Auto Insurance companies were behind it. Liberals argued that it would act as a poor tax to minorities and the underprivileged.Auto Insurance was sort of expensive back then.

But the center prevailed and what happened was it created a new industry of auto insurance companies, and certainly, created new jobs and many success stories for small business owners. It actually weakened the big companies’ stranglehold on the consumer because of diversity of choice. Now you can insure your car for $30 per month. If you don’t have $30 you shouldn’t have a car.

If everyone was required (or let’s say, told that it would not be given to them for free, ever) to have health insurance, it would be about $30 per month, and insurance companies would make more. Volume. Margins. Learn about economics you GD hippies.

4. President Clinton Presided Over A Great Economy– Vis a Vis, He Was Responsible/Deserves Credit For It

It’s amazing how many people believe this. Bill Clinton happened to be President during a time when a brand new mega-industry emerged: technology. Most computer and internet technologies were pioneered here in the United States. This was a windfall for our economy (of course we all know that the pendulum swung a little too far).

Well President Clinton offered tax breaks to… blah blah… to help new technology companies… blah blah. Tax breaks create technology? Really?

That’s interesting. I thought people, specifically Americans, created what we know as “technology” and the giant industry that followed it, and had been working on it for some time.

No it was a Democrat President elected in 1993.

Oracle was founded in 1977.
Microsoft was founded in 1975
Sun Microsystems (JAVA) was founded in 1982
Dell was founded in 1988
IBM was founded in 1895
Apple was founded in 1976
Tandy was founded in 1980
Hewlet Packard was founded in 1939
Intel was founded in 1968
Cisco Systems was founded in 1984

The above companies laid the groundwork for the hardware, software and networking/internet technologies that now make up what was the “new technology” of the 1990’s and the basis for all modern day technologies.

There are no documented “Tax breaks” or “endowments” to technology companies during the Clinton administration.

The government produces no wealth. It can only spend it. Memorize that.

5. The Republicans Dont Like _______ Type Of People

I can’t be a Republican, i’m ________

Propaganda by the Democratic party, who want to make sure they retain their control over minorities, women, children, etc.

If you’re a _________, be afraid of a party that openly suggests they own you and that you can’t possibly be apart of the other party.

The Republicans want to have power just like the Democrats do, in that sense, they welcome everyone with open arms. But if you fall into the trap of believing that government will help you (really? they’ve been selling that line for 50 years now. When?), then you’ll probably enjoy the programming the Democrats offer.

6. The Media Is Politically Biased Left/Right

Largely, the only bias the media has is towards money. Sure some papers or TV stations have carved out a niche with the left or right, but there is no bias and even if there is— make your own fucking decisions about what you believe. Use the scientific method and watch all the stations if you must.

It’s dismaying to me how many on the Right get their opinions from a guy who used to anchor Inside Edition and the Left from a fucking comedy show (The Daily Show).

7. Things Will Be Better If Obama/McCain Win The Election

Nope, they’ll be about the same. You’ll probably still live in the same place, drive the same crapcan car and crawl into bed with the same broad each night. We’ll still be in Iraq until we’re done. Taxes will be at whatever level the market will allow. The economy will get better if we create some new industries and stop spending money on worthless crap and stop creating artificial markets that will certainly collapse.

Gas prices will be whatever the market will bear. 9/11 will have still happened. Islamic Radicals will still want to take over their city, region, country,  world, violently. Medicine will still cost money. Sandwiches will too, but there are lots of options.

Political blogs put a photo of the author and some italic text next to it. Political blogs tell you where the author went to school and which OTHER places you can find their bullshit. I’m not telling you where I went to school and I only write stuff here. I eat tacos. I have a picture of Charles Lindberg hanging in my office and I didn’t put it there but don’t mind it either. I’m a Republican/Libertarian. I hate liberals quite a bit. I am awesome.

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