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IDIOCRACY

i sent an email to a couple people yesterday with a link to a website showcasing mccain videos. of COURSE, the videos showcased mccain contradictions. i received an email back from a relative to whom it was re-forwarded with this:

Thanks for the mail.

Vote McCain/Palin 2008 or habla espanol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9SeQ7vbYQU

i clicked on the link -- go ahead. do it.

i love (that's heavy, HEAVY sarcasm) the way people freak out about this stuff. i'm not talking about the veiled racist point of view. i'm going somewhere else here, folks. stay with me.

i LOVE the way americans pretend to be soooo attached to the english language while the majority of americans can't write their way out of a wet paper bag. just put together one freaking sentence, folks. most of you know i'm not talking to you. but i do believe it is a heavy majority of americans who could not write one sentence that's grammatically correct. and i'm not just talking about high school grads.

and let's not get into the argument about "literary license." i'm not talking creative writing, folks. some of us know the difference and can tolerate and even appreciate that. i'm talking ignorance here.

stupidity is when you can't get it. ignorance is when you don't WANT to get it. and, yes, i believe that a huge percentage of americans are ignorant. call me arrogant. as i told you before -- what. ever.

we ALL were taught (oops. i almost said that we all learned. wishful thinking) at least a certain amount of grammar. i would hope that college grads, especially "english" majors, were taught even more (however, there is NO evidence to support that; i'm just sayin'). the problem is that there seems to be no value to holding onto those lessons for many americans. how could there be?

we've all seen the bumper stickers "my kid beat up your honor student" as if that trumps the "my kid is an honor student at..." bumper sticker. sadly, it DOES to many americans. sadly, it does.

if it's too hard to teach your kid to strive for any kind of excellence (any kind at all), just redefine success as raising the best and biggest thug. much easier. and becoming easier all the time.

this mediocrity (heh) is so ingrained in our culture now that foreigners who learn english overseas value the proper use of our language more than we do. americans are just the big, DUMB bullies on the block now.

it's gonna kick our ass, people. and it's gonna hurt. bad.

heaven forbid we elect a smart president. who the hell does he think he is -- thinking he's a smart guy (i'm not talking mccain here, folks. even he makes no bones about his less-than-stellar intellectual capacity)? americans are much more comfortable with putting someone who is PERCEIVED as a regular, AVERAGE guy into the highest office in our country. we don't even care if that's true (how many of us own 7 houses?) this is not your buddy down the street, people (in spite of the way a republican pundit on cnn characterized him -- "a regular guy you can have a beer with married to a hot chick"). the republicans hope you buy into this and support the rich, fat, white man agenda. and americans do! we BELIEVE this shit and hand the whole ball of wax to the rich guys. this is what got us into the mess we're in right now. george bush -- good, old guy.

you're worried about jobs? elect the guy who says we're a bunch of whiners and that the economy is not so bad.

the war? do i even have to say anything here?

gas prices? go ahead. elect the guy who wants to allow gas companies to drill, drill, drill. if you're slow, i'll say it again. we won't be able to harvest one fucking drop of oil from any new rigs for ten to fifteen years. do you think the oil companies are going to lower gas prices as a thank you right now? for the promise of adding MAYBE 2 percent more oil to the world's oil reserves? in ten to fifteen more years? all the while NOT investing time and money into alternative sources of energy. good idea. go ahead. line the pockets of the oil company shareholders. do you have children? do you hope they'll be able to have children? do you care about what kind of earth you'll be handing down to them? if you did, you wouldn't vote for the village idiot, mccain.

you want your religious agenda pushed? obviously, mccain is your man, you fucking asshole.

that it might not be a bad idea or even kind of enriching (oh. my. god. sorry. lost my head there.) for our kids to learn another language? i guess i'm really old -- that used to be called education; and, i forgot, we're not really not so much into that here in the old u.s. of a.

from where i'm sitting, i can see a whole, different (and, i'm sure, unintended) meaning to the song lyrics, "hope i die before i get old." i hope these ideas are reigned in somehow, some way, SOON.

i don't know about you; but i sure as hell don't mind (and would even kind of like it) if my doctor, kid's/grandkid's teachers and professors, future engineers, future physicists, military leaders, and PRESIDENT are regular people, but i sure as HELL don't want them to be average.

note: don't even TRY to point out grammatical flaws. or the literary "license" i've taken in some of my sentences. if you don't get that, it says way more about you than my writing. or the fact that i don't capitalize. i type one handed ("i can out-write you with one hand tied behind my back") because i type one handed. if you've been here before, you know why.

Posted by Stacey at September 10, 2008 03:11 PM