By: Jane Stillwater
Now that my state is about to be invaded by the Republican circus, the only advice I can offer California voters right now is, “Shelter in place!” But as the GOP electoral freak show prepares to hit the Golden State really hard between now and our June 5 primary election, there is clearly going to be no place to hide.
Not only are we here in California going to have to endure the same electoral horrors that Ohio, New Hampshire, Indiana, etc. have already been forced to suffer through, but, because of California’s crucial role in choosing a final Repub candidate in Tampa, there’s going to be even more of that sideshow kind of creepiness here.
Imagine sitting down to relax and spend a peaceful evening watching “Survivor” or “Dancing With the Stars” after a long hard day at work — and having to suffer through thousands of commercials featuring Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney instead.
Nightmare on Sunset Boulevard!
Two important political factors are converging here right now, both of them portending extremely bad news for us Californians. First, it seems that California’s electoral votes are going to be crucial to the outcome of the 2012 Republican presidential convention in Tampa — and whoever wins California could very well take the entire GOP nomination.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “The failure of any candidate to take command of the campaign makes it increasingly likely that the state’s June 5 primary and its 172 delegates will be fiercely contested.” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/07/MNLG1NHGJM.DTL
Second, after the Supreme Court passed that traitorous and cheezy Citizens United decision that allows corporatist SuperPacs to spend billions on campaign ads, we are gonna be literally swamped, drowned, assaulted and bombarded with thousands of in-your-face commercials of Romney and Rick saying really stupid things. And this blatant dark carnival will continue to pour mercilessly into our living rooms night and day for months. Ugh!
Duck and cover, California. We are in for it now.
“Gag me with a spoon,” as one Valley Girl was recently heard to say. You’ve got that right.
PS: I’ve finally given up on trying to persuade hard-core right-wing Fox News fans that they are working against their own best interests when they vote for Republican candidates — and even many of the Democrats’ candidates too. Let them all slit their own throats. Fine with me. Just don’t be getting your blood all over MY carpet.
Americans these days are actually willingly voting for every single One Percent/Wall Street/AIPAC candidate that they can get their hands on. That’s insane. The Middle East horror-show War for Oil and the nightmare War for Drugs and the sadistic War on Jobs, Infrastructure and Education are all being happily supported by actual American voters. That’s just crazy. You might as well vote yourself into the cemetery and be done with it.
What to do? Here’s a good idea. Let’s divide America into two basic groups: The rational/sane group — and Fox News viewers. Then let’s move all FNVs into the Deep South, Texas and Indiana so that they can form their own nation — and leave the rest of us in peace.
“But, Jane, you can’t do that!” the FNVs might say. And why not? Could it be because the rest of us are now paying through our teeth for all those pork-barrels, entitlements and earmarks that are currently keeping Republican states afloat?
Let the new FNV nation see how far it can get if it alone is responsible for paying for all those earmarks that FNVers now receive from the rest of us, as well as now having to actually pay for all those banksters bailouts and useless, brutal and unnecessary Middle East wars that Repubs seem to love so much. You love them? Then YOU pay for them.
And we can even move Wall Street to Dallas!
PPS: The Republicans are once again offering to solve the national economic crisis by not taxing the rich and by continuing to subsidize oil companies despite their record-breaking new profits. However, California could easily solve its budgetary crisis in less than a New York minute by following Alaska’s example and placing an oil tax on all that black gold that is currently pouring out of our wells untaxed. End of problem. Never gonna happen. Thanks for nothing, Republicans.
I’ve always been a proponent of NUKE ARIZONA, because of the vacuous decision making there (and a certain blow hard sheriff they take pride in). But the GOP circus certainly has added to my list of NUKE….states.
hrm.. peh.
Actually, Jane, that’s the likely outcome.
America is (I know; I’ve said this before, but it’s still true) as polarized as it’s been since 1859. We all know (at least, those of us who Stayed Awake in Class) how that turned out.
Thing is, we never really solved anything by that conflict – we kept the Federal union together, which (as we saw in the 1860’s) was an artificial-construct. The conflict was about far more than slavery – although the Tim Wise/Roland Martin crowd would have you believe it was, in reality, a single-issue sort of thing.
We can look to Yugoslavia as our archetype here. Before the fall of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia was also an artificial construct – afterward, without the strength of the Soviet state to help keep it together, Yugoslavia reverted to its ethnic roots – with the result that six separate countries now make up the former nation.
We can look to things getting really, really ugly before they settle out – if history is any guide. The American empire won’t give up control over this much land, people and other resources (yes; we’re all viewed as ‘resources’ from a governmental standpoint) without a struggle.
Already, if we’re keeping an eye on the news, things like the NDAA, H.R. 347, the recently enacted (yet unnumbered) executive order and other actions by the current administration have constituted a de facto police-state.
At this point, I’m past offering remedies. There are none. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past. The future is another matter. Today, we are all either rebels or slaves, whether we own up to it or not.
-W