I Am So Fucking Sick of Politics...

Sweet Jeebus on a stick! I have grown so very weary of the fucked-up mess our country has become. Even a political junkie like me has reached rock bottom. I am trying to wean myself  from the steady diet of  a seemingly nihilistic strain of conservatism, and an utterly spineless liberalism.

One of the more interesting aspect of our current situation has to be the heavily repeated narrative that the Obama administration has already failed. You hear him portrayed as such by pundits all across the so-called *liberal media* spectrum. So much so that the President's perceived failure was the main topic of the first Republican debate, and since the Republican's are completely out of ideas, I'm guessing you will hear that failure narrative repeated more frequently in the lead up to the next election.

I find it fascinating that the President is being castigated on a seemingly hourly basis by his political enemies for the exact same policies his predecessor was lionized for. He has been in the cross-hairs of the opposition since before he was elected, both literally and figuratively. There was never even a honeymoon period with the right-wing. From the beginning it was all aboard the demonization and derision crazy train straight on to Batshitcrazytown, which I think is somewhere in Arizona, possibly Florida...

All that nonsense aside, the fact remains that this administration has not lived up to its promise to bring the kind of change that would save what's left of the New Deal from the clutches of an rigidly ideological and increasingly dogmatic conservative movement bent on destroying it. Let alone the hope that someone could reverse the last thirty years of insane trade and regulatory policies that have gutted the American middle class.We are regaled to little true leadership and virtually nothing getting through Congress to stem America's slide into developing nation status.

 I fear that if the economy continues its decline, there will be a conservative backlash that could erase all of the progress this nation has seen in the last seventy years. Just look at what is happening in the states that have Republican administrations - Social services gone, schools hallowed out, public employee collective bargaining rights eliminated, selling off public lands to development, defunding Planned Parenthood and limiting abortion rights, and that's just scratching the surface. Just imagine that agenda on a national level. You can see it in the House already, my question is exactly how many jobs were created by defunding Planned Parenthood and NPR?

That said, I still have issues with many very troubling Obama policies. What's the deal with going after whistle blowers? What the fuck is the deal with the FBI investigating peace activists? Robotic death sorties? Violating the War Powers Act? What The Fuck? This is the exact same shit I was complaining about during the Bush debacle! Go back and read, I shit you not. As the saying goes, the more things change the more they stay the same...