Herein your humble Madman will once again forfeit his official membership in the liberal club.
I’m sick of rightwing immigrants.
Yes, that’s right. I have NO patience for for the descendents of former dictators and authoritarians. ANY of them. This is not to say that groups with a grievance don’t have every right to seek recompense, but don’t use the psycho rightwing to settle scores in your old country, and piss all over the legal traditions of this country to do it.
I don’t care if you hate that the communists in Cuba replaced a nasty and corrupt dictator and puppet for the mob. Don’t give a damn. Whether or not a tiny tropical island has a dictator or not doesn’t matter to me, especially seeing as in how he actually provides his people with more access to healthcare than a sizable portion of the citizens of this country, and whose population has one of the highest literacy rates in the world.
I don’t care about Israel. Yes, I know that a lot of people who fervently support zionism aren’t immigrants, but this country has endangered itself and innocent people in other countries for far too long in support of a criminal, bullying nation of perpetual crybabies and the grandchildren of victims of a crime from long ago. Being descended of a victimized people does not give you license to victimize others.
It’s not our job here to fix Southeast Asia, Korea or China. It’s not our job to settle long-standing scores in Central Europe. Fight amongst yourselves over old blood feuds and assignment of charges of long-past genocides. Did leftists in Central America run daddy off of his sugar cane plantation? Not our problem.
We have our own crimes here that we need to deal with. We need to set right our very own genocide, our very own exploitation of the poor … we need to do something to confront and heal the lingering and festering sores of racism HERE.
So Dinesh Souza, denizens of Calle Ocho, fervent lobbyists for AIPAC … piss off. I’m tired of blood and treasure here being used to support a war machine and killing industries that are then directed to settle your scores.
The US should be a champion for peace, for fair trade, for open exchanges of ideas and culture, NOT a big bank and source of mercenaries to help you get even for some crime committed against great-granddad. Maybe after we’ve figured out a way to deal with poverty, racism, economic inequities and the theft of assets of the Native Americans we can get to back to working out your centuries-old conflicts.
So there you go. The news is just too much to take, and watching asshole hypocrites like Alberto Gonzales, grandchild of immigrants himself, piss all over the basic freedoms of our Constitution to make political points and serve his war criminal boss has gotten way past old.
Unlike the racist wingers, I don’t hate you people because of where you are from, or what you look like. I’m disgusted by your willingness to import the authoritarian beliefs of your ancestors, many of whom ran here when their own people forced them out of power. This is supposed to be a nation of laws, a nation where individuals come before tribes … something we’ve never quite managed completely, but something we’re supposed to be working toward. Take your issues back where you, your parents or grandparents came from.
So there you go. Gonna listen to some tunes now and try to cheer myself up.
- “It’s Late” – Queen
- “All Right Now” – Free
- “The Post War Dream” – Queen
- “I Can’t Turn You Loose” – Was (Not Was)
- “Pure and Easy” – The Who
- “Happy” – Rolling Stones
- “State of Love and Trust” – Pearl Jam
- “White Man” – Queen
- “Eulogy” – Tool
- “Do You Know Something (I Don’t Know)” – Webb Wilder
