Yes, I can certainly believe that.

Your regurgitations of Daily Kos talking points against Mr. McCain are as unoriginal and tedious as your crude sexual insults against me. You display the intellectual elan of a chimpanzee making threat displays. It might go over well with your fellow morons, high-fiving each other and assuring yourselves of what clever apes you are, but it just makes you look like more of a boob to me.

People below thirty, on the whole, can’t read. They won’t learn the difference between the active and passive voice in their lifetimes, and they won’t pick up Barthelme, Faulkner, Morrison, Goethe, Kafka, Dostoevsky, and goddamn read. They’re a huge voter demographic.

Why did Rome fall? Failure of Language. It’s happening people. It’s happening. Cormac McCarthy wrote a great book about what happens when stupidity endures. The Road. Read it. It’s seven dollars when you walk out of your office at the borders on the corner.

You want the right change? Educate.

My uncharitable view is that those most dismissive of the benefits of leaving people their own money are projecting their own covetousness on others. They believe that people will not do good things with their own money because they wouldn’t. Compare the charitable giving of Joe Biden vs. Dick Cheney (who gave something like 4 million to charity out of 6 million in income.)

Or maybe they so misunderstand charity that they feel the spiritual benefits of sacrifice can be obtained by forcing someone else to sacrifice in their place.

P. J. O’Rourke once calculated that the sum of Federal assistance to the poor, divided by a generous estimate of the number of poor, would result in an annual amount of income over the poverty line. That are are still poor people is not an indication that we are downright mean, but that poverty programs are much more about funding government employees than alleviating poverty.

We’ve all seen what damage a dumb “decider” can do in high office. I think people are looking for someone with a little more thoughtfulness. I find it hard to imagine being a physicist who prefers to be ruled by dumb jocks with executive asshole skills, but whatever. You probably got a nice stiffie when Bush paraded around with his manly characteristic emphasized.

Don’t know where your riff on Dawkins is coming from; if you read my blog you’ll see that I’m mostly opposed to his simpleminded atheism. He was, in fact, a real scientist who did work on zoology and kin selection before taking on his current role as scourge of religion.

McCain was a singularly incompetent pilot who crashed numerous planes and may have started a fire on the USS Forrestal that killed over 100 sailors. His poor judgement, evidenced by his selection of Palin, seems to go back a long way.

I don’t know what to believe, other than to say…I’m not convinced of anything I’m being told and am growing ever more suspicious of what I am not being told, what is being hidden and Left handed Monkey Wrench that the Plumbers are using on the truth.

Massive voter registration fraud, massive campaign financing…with serious and dangerous circumvention of safeguards?

Repeated, consistent and haunting connections with some of the most virulent haters of America, it’s salt of the earth small town folks and “flyover country” residents, a frontal assault on the Constitution, a “spread thw wealth” economic distribution plan, an open suggestion that a “fairness doctrine” be imposed to shut down talk radio, an outline to drastically curtail the military budget and reduce our ability to defend militarily against foreign enemies, replacing that role instead with a “private army not constrained by oversight of the military…instead reporting directly to the civilian Commander.

Drown out opposing or dissenting voices? Kick them off the plane and shut them down on the airwaves? Take the property of the dissenters and give it to the loyal party workers? Indoctrinate schoolchildre and have them chant slogans? Paramilitary exercises and “calls to action”, orders to “get in their faces” and browbeat your own parents and grandparents?

The media suddenly and almost completely consumed by a lack of curiousity, ceases to defend “the little guy”…but instead attacks them with a ferocity heretofore reserved for national politicians. They goosestep their way to salute the private seal, the absence of the flag, the Che Guevara poster.

Let me summarize:

1)Strip the military of funding and reduce its manpower and ability to defend

2)Strip the access of dissenters by kicking them off the plane, refusing access via the airwaves if they ask tough questions, institute a “fairness doctrine” to eliminate their voice on radio.

3)Strip the capital and property and begin to redistribute those funds and property

4)Attack the constitution, insert judges not elected by the people as operatives in redrafting it to suit the policies and procedures which the people never voted to approve.

5)Build a civilian army of loyal party members, in a new revolutionary guard against enemies…whomever they may be.

6)Take away the 2nd amendment rights of the people, by force, if necessary…because they “cling to guns and religion”. Not sure if religion is going to be allowed to “cling” to at this point.

7)Replace traditional symbols with new ones…the flag is the “wrong” kind of patriotism…personal seals, wall sized portraits, a personal flag.

8)Nationalized healthcare, nationalized banking and finance, nationalized insurance, nationalized 401k’s, nationalized homeownership, nationalized energy, nationalized education, nationalized agriculture and food production.

9)Elections rife with voter registration fraud and political operatives blocking investigation into the massive, overt and clear attempts to rig an election for one candidate with ties to the offending organizations.

10) Massive evidence of campaign finance irregularities, foreign influence and laundered money, in order to buy more votes.

11) Louder and more vicious attacks on Jewish people popping up as a “gutter religion”, the “cause of massive suffering”, the “reason there is no peace”. A team is assembled to “reduce the Zionist influence”.

If I was going to start a revolution…I certainly couldn’t pick a better groundwork or foundation than this. I would only ask that you call me an agrarian reformer….although I suppose “community organizer” would work just as well.

I would do the organizing…it’s up to you to do the communing. I would ask you to simply quietly come along, join the “grassroots” movement for “change” and “hope” for our future…built in five year planning increments. Then a Grass Curtain would descend upon you, keeping you safe from those who dissent.

I mean…if I intended to launch a revolution. Which I don’t. I’m a centrist. How about you?