Fear

December 7, 2009 in Uncategorized by Timbuk3 | 4 comments

It’s my opinion that the one over-riding driver of the average American voter is fear. Usually, irrational fear.

Fear of scary brown people, AKA “terrorists”.

Fear of gays getting married and breaking up marriages that can withstand anything else.

Fear that swarthy Hispanics will “take our jobs”. (Or perhaps the corollary, that someone other than white men will be in charge.)

Fear that we’ll LOSE our jobs, leading to sucking the corporate cock teat cock.

Fear that women will be able to consult privately with a doctor.

Fear that “the church” is losing influence.

Fear of other nations.

Fear of the government spending too much (on people) or too little (on blowing shit up and killing people).

Pants-shitting, abject fear that things will change (Forget about “for the better” or “for the worse”, change itself is “bad”) drives a status quo that gets worse, every year.

I admit to fear, myself. I’m afraid that things WON’T change. That we’re so blinded by “patriotism” that we think we can’t make this a better place to live for EVERYONE (not just our corporate masters.) I’m afraid we’ll watch, like the proverbial slowly boiling frog, until we’re either “dead” (emotionally, at least) or so fed up we realize we have nothing to lose and do something crazy.

So, whattaya think of THAT?

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    timandcir on December 7, 2009 at 9:30 pm

    You’re gonna pull me out one way or another…think you got enough tags on this post?

    I would say that what you have wrote here tracks almost perfectly with my own observations of this ‘Land of the free, home of the brave’. All politics in this country is fear based. All employer/employee relations are fear based. Nothing new is tried in spite of the obvious failures of the status quo because of fear.

    Change always comes. It is just a matter of change coming in a controlled fashion through the implementation of necessary policy adjustments or change coming in a catastrophic fashion because we kept delaying dealing with the problem.

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      Timbuk3 on December 7, 2009 at 9:43 pm

      think you got enough tags on this post?

      Noticed that, didja?

      “Fear” seems to cover every single one of those tags.

      Americans are afraid of freaking EVERYTHING, these days. They don’t even know how to fix their own cars, any more. Couldn’t diagnose and treat a minor illness if (this is a joke) their life depended on it. The whole “swine flu vaccine” thing had me shaking my head. “OH NO, I MIGHT GET THE FLU!!!” Let the wailing and gnashing of teeth commence.

      I mean, seriously, the only other word that comes to mind is “weak”. Well, maybe “fat, stupid, and lazy”, too.

      I’m so honestly disgusted by the people of the “draft Palin” movement, lining up in the cold to get “an autographed copy” (c’mon, folks, do you HONESTLY think she’ll remember you an hour from now?) of her book that I could spit. A 1/2 term governor is a serious contender for the GOP nomination? You have GOT to be kidding me!

      But you’re not.

      Hey, on the bright side, at least the conservatives have stopped killing people. For now. Or is that the “down” side? Maybe we’re overdue for another whack job committing another act of domestic terrorism that won’t be called exactly that by a media that’s forgotten what their job is ethics are.

      I’m seriously considering buying 20 acres and putting up a fence. Every 10 feet I’ll post a sign; “survivors will be prosecuted”. But before that, I’m working on one more idea; national walk off the job day.

      Seriously, corporations can’t survive without drinking our blood. We CAN shut the fucker down.

      But we won’t.

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        timandcir on December 7, 2009 at 10:02 pm

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        What’s that?

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          Timbuk3 on December 7, 2009 at 11:20 pm

          I left out a bracket.

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