I have thought about this long and hard, and decided to ultimately cast lot with the Democrats this year. Cain Hammond Thaler will be voting for Obama.
I do not do this because I feel in any way that Obama will be good for the country, the planet, or yourselves. Actually, quite to the contrary:
I’m voting for Obama because I hate you.
Sitting here in my 9th floor office, I’ve watched and seethed for the last four years. And I confess myself rather a bitter man. More so because I called Obama’s fall from favor between some friends not the day after he won.
I said, “This guy’s not moderate at all. He’s gonna overreach and Republicans will sweep the mid-terms.” That’s as about verbatim as a non-recorded conversation can go.
You see folks – you bastards asked for this.
If I liked you; if I wanted to help; I would vote to get this clown out of office, because he’s hamstringing our economy by putting his hair-brained college buddies in charge of remaking the world in the image of a Harvard lounge room and neo-militant environmentalists in charge of policing the source of our heat and power.
But you see, looking out for someone is what you do when you care about them.
I saw this child dancing on a brick wall, and I said “hey, get down from there.”
And the child taunted back, “make me.”
So I warned, “you’re going to fall and hurt yourself.”
To which it retorted, “you are mean and a big bully. And you deserve to be hated by everyone.”
Fine, you know what you little degenerate? You’re not my kid, and your mother’s a whore. Dance 10 feet off the ground. Here are some fucking scissors to hold onto while you do it.
And you know what else? It’s too late.
I’ve seen the bond game the US is playing, and it’s all over. We’re toast. Shy of a technological revolution the likes to rival the industrial revolution, we’re not growing out of this issue. We’re defaulting. And then, all these precious little programs you lot think are as easy to manage as “voting for them” will go bye bye.
Away for fifty years – your Social Security savings are rather precariously being handled by con artists. You can pretend like the problems are small and can be papered over if you like.
But when the bond market finally rejects our auctions (look at the last two we held) and our favored “debt hiddy-holes” of China and Europe finally start trying to renationalize the paper…well folks, you’re going to see quite the spectacle here in the old US of A.
And when that sixty year old habitual smoker of a trailer trash wife has to start picking 2 out of 3 to spend her $200 SS checks on – milk, eggs, and smokes – (or worse, they just start defaulting on the program)…well I’ll tell you one thing I know.
I don’t want a Republican in office.
You see, I’d like to believe you’re smart enough to recognize that the last forty years of raw malinvestment and overpromising is the cause of this (it is dipshits, no one event whether war or housing busts caused this).
I’d like to believe that. But I know better.
Once things get hard, the 20-30% of you – I’m talking about those in Middle School who couldn’t point to Egypt on a map and, when looking for the state of New York on a globe, started by turning to the side with Western Russia – the same who are now preaching hope and love of mankind and being kind to the poor…you’ll be the first ones to turn on people.
And whichever political party is unfortunate enough to be in the command chair when that happens is going to get lambasted. We’re talking Roosevelt-sucker-punches-Hoover part II, and 20 years of political obscurity for the poor sons of bitches who get stuck with the bill.
Yeah, no thanks.
I’m guessing the fireworks get started in 2015-2016. I don’t want to have my ideology’s fingerprints anywhere on government when that happens. Because I love capitalism and don’t want an angry, flesh craving mob to take her down.
My only concern is that somehow Obama is able to take the Supreme Court in a second term. But I have to trust that the old men who currently keep us safe from manic liberals have the fortitude to keep on living. So that’s a risk I’m willing to take.
So I will be voting for Obama this November. Because you and he deserve one another. And because I’m not thinking about the next four years. I’m thinking about the next 40.
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