[Peace-discuss] Fw: [socialistdiscussion] Obama.

[E.Wayne Johnson]

Strausbaugh on American Sissy-ism:

http://www.johnstrausbaugh.com/sn/excerpt/

One thing all Sissies have in common is fear. Americans used to be known around the world for their adventurous spirit, their bold individualism, their brashness and ballsiness. We live now in a culture of fear, anxiety, paranoia and insecurity. We're afraid, literally, of everything. We're afraid of sickness, afraid of death, and afraid to really live. We're afraid of sex. We're afraid of food. We're afraid of the air, the water, the soil, the weather. We're afraid that the planet itself is rejecting us...

...Stuck with one another back down here on the ground, all we can do is whine and spit and carp like kitties in a burlap sack. Nowhere is our Sissitude more evident than in our politics. Fear rules our politics. Our politicians don't offer us many space races anymore. They don't even try to appeal to our courage, our industriousness, our hopes and dreams for the future. They've become just as fearful and fatalistic as the rest of us. They don't have faith in us or themselves anymore than we do. Negativity and futility have invaded the way politicians think, and inform the way they speak to us. Opposing parties don't offer us alternative paths to a better tomorrow anymore; they present us with alternative threats and ask us to vote according to which scares us more - to choose between, say, Global Terrorism or Global Warming. The language of politics has become almost entirely a sissy language, a language of fear. 

Being a nation of Sissy sheep, it makes perfect sense that we have Sissy leaders. I give you George W. Bush. A pampered, draft-dodging, drug-addled Sissy in his youth, incapable of independent thought or action, he came to power in the classic Sissy way: Daddy gave it to him. Give a Sissy power, and what does he become? A bully. A bully is just a Sissy in tough-guy drag. What do bullies do? They lash out at the world around them, destroying and disordering, making others as miserable as they are. I give you George Bush's wars. I mean it in no way as a denigration of America's men and women in uniform when I say that America, as a culture, fights like a Sissy now. 

This is not a partisan rant. Left wing, right wing, it's all chicken. George Bush was a classic American Sissy who happened to be a Republican and conservative, but his liberal predecessor was also a draft-dodging baby boomer who acted like a Sissy as commander-in-chief. Clinton's most Sissy act was to look us right in the eye and lie to us about the blowjobs, then drag us all down with him through the impeachment proceedings. To this day, many liberals insist that the blowjobs demonstrate what a manly and macho man he was. As though a Sissy in power would never coerce a young employee to give him sexual favors at the office. Americans being perpetual adolescents when it comes to sex, both liberals and conservatives failed to understand that the issue wasn't the blowjobs themselves, it was the craven lying about them when he was caught, and the willingness to make the entire nation suffer and pay for his idiotic indiscretions. There was a time when every child in America was taught a parable about another president and a cherry tree, the lesson of which was that a real American hero owns up to his mistakes and transgressions... at least when he's caught. President Buster Cherry must have been absent from school that day. 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: E.Wayne Johnson 
  To: David Johnson ; Peace-discuss List 
  Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 10:13 AM
  Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Fw: [socialistdiscussion] Obama.


  Any one who voted for some yellow canine instead fo John Sidney McCain III in 2008 can hardly be blamed for making a bad choice in that pretentious political exercise.  But those who actually bought into the Obama lie rapidly became afflicted with "buyer's remorse", except for the some of our hardshell Dem friends who remain hopelessly helplessly enthralled by the Great Deceiver.

  Democracy in the US is mostly a cruel sham, an outrageously pitiful substitute for the real thing.

  It's not surprising at all.  Americans are cowardly bullies.  They are Impotent and Pussies (as Max Keiser has noted).   Americans are Sissies, Wimps and Stoopits (as John Strausbaugh has noted).  Americans are grossly and deliberately misinformed and manipulated and they are by and large too damn lazy and for the most part simply too fucking stupid to notice or even much care. A real revolution is simply out of vogue and the arrogant pretentious media who are the running dogs of the political class are determined to ceaselessly point out to Americans how crass revolutionaries are, so as to keep the hoi polloi firmly under the yoke of bondage to the political class.  The political class wants Obedient Workers not an Educated Populace (as Carlin noted).  The political class wants good "Africans" (as Ambrose Bierce noted).

  The Tea Party was originally a libertarian movement at its inception about 3 years ago, but as it gathered steam and "members" it has became more and more diverse to the point that many of its original founders who are of an anarcholibertarian bent are quite unhappy with how its going.  It is a great oversimplification to brand the Tea Party as "Glenn Beckers" or as "Palinites" or even as "Ron Paulers" although there are elements of all three within the TeaParty movement.    The unifying theme of the Tea Party is that they are people who believe that they are getting a raw deal from their government, and the Political Class.  

  Of course the cultural immune system of the Political Class perceives the TeaPartyMovement as an invader and seeks to inactivate this threat by Opsonizing it with labels like Rightist, Racist, Religious Right, Gun-Toting Rednecks, etc.   Indeed some of those labels are true (as Epimenides noted, and Paul affirmed).

  In my opinion any action by Americans against the political class that doesnt involve grassroots uprising, rioting, fires, and bloodshed, or the civilized equivalent thereof is doomed for ignominious failure.  I don't generally put much stock by the civilized equivalents, but Americans fear their government and they believe that they could not survive without feeding their addiction to the vile green pap that oozes from the government's feces encrusted teats.  A vertically directed revolution within the existing system seems to be much easier to get support for in the absence of sub-total collapse.

  Does the Tea Party represent anything of substance?  They represent anger against the system that threw them overboard.  The Tea Party is an Uprising against the Political Class, however misguided, ideologically diffuse, and fundamentally flawed and hypocritical they may be.

     A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 65% of Likely U.S. Voters say if they had the option next week, they would vote to get rid of the entire Congress and start all over again. Only 20% would opt to keep the entire Congress instead. Fifteen percent (15%) aren't sure. 
      Of course, the Political Class strongly disagrees.  While 84% of Mainstream voters would opt to get rid of the entire Congress, 64% of the Political Class would vote instead to keep them all.

      Not surprisingly, 82% of Republicans and 78% of unaffiliateds say dump them all. Despite their party's control of both the House and Senate, Democratic voters are fairly evenly divided: 44% say it's better to keep the entire Congress, but 38% would prefer to give all the national legislators the heave-ho.

      Thirty-eight percent (38%) of all voters have a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party after its two years of controlling both the White House and Congress. But 53% view the Democrats unfavorably.  As for the party out of power but knocking on the door, just 29% view Republicans favorably, while 54% hold an unfavorable opinion of them.

      Only 61% of Republicans offer a favorable opinion of the GOP, a figure perhaps reflective of the fact that most Republican voters believe their party leaders are out of touch with the base. Seventy-six percent (76%) of Democrats have a favorable opinion of their party.

      Among all voters, just three percent (3%) have a favorable opinion of both parties, while 18% view both unfavorably. Seventy-nine percent (79%) offer mixed reviews. 

      The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 60% of Likely Voters have an unfavorable impression of Pelosi, including 52% who hold a Very Unfavorable opinion of her.  That's her highest Very Unfavorable 

       rating since regular tracking began in early February 2009.  Only 33% share a favorable impression of the California Democrat, including 16% who view her Very Favorably.  
        Fifty-four percent (54%) view Reid unfavorably, including 41% with a Very Unfavorable opinion, also the highest finding since February of last year. Twenty-nine percent (29%) hold a favorable view of Reid. That includes just seven percent (7%) with a Very Favorable regard for him...


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: David Johnson 
    To: Peace-discuss List 
    Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 6:35 AM
    Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fw: [socialistdiscussion] Obama.


    Would someone on the list like to provide an answer to this person in the U.K. ?

    David J.

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: pearcefulham at aol.com 
    To: socialistdiscussion at yahoogroups.com 
    Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 4:33 PM
    Subject: [socialistdiscussion] Obama.


      
    I e mailed this list a year or so ago asking why Obama and the 
    Democrats were allowing the Tea Party crowd to determine the political 
    agenda. I was told by some Amereicans on the list that the Tea Party 
    did not represent anything of substance, the argument being that they 
    were only really on the fringe of politics. I could not understand then 
    and I still do not understand why Obama cannot appeal to his 
    constituency. It has taken Jon Stewart and others in a satirical way to 
    appeal to the youth, etc, the Obama crowd appear like rabbits caught in 
    a car headlight. Whilst we all know that the Obama administration will 
    not break from capitalism, it still mystfies why they are sleep walking 
    into a politrical disater next week. The Glen Beck crowd will become 
    emboldened by their up coming victory and grow in confidence. Obama for 
    all his intellect does not appear to understand the basic law of 
    politics, look after your base, only in the last week or so has he 
    started to appeal to his base, too late, goodnight.

    Terry 


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