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I have to say I have never read an angry article from this esteemed professor before. When someone like him is truly is despair, that's when you know that the shit has hit the fan..and that this great country of ours, the United States of America, is really in danger of becoming a laughing stock and a third world country.
I have concluded that Americans, who pretend in public to be straightlaced, are in fact rabid masochists addicted to whips, black leather and the application of fists. It turns out that large numbers of people throughout the world are accidentally asphyxiated every year because they need to be chocked for maximum pleasure.
The diagnosis of national masochism is the only thing that can satisfactorily explain the poll numbers in the presidential race.
And in the wake of the greatest and most sustained act of systematic plunder since the Mongol hordes appropriated to themselves the riches of everyplace in Asia from Beijing to Isfahan, the reaction of the supine and slave-like American voting public is to scratch their heads and have a hard time deciding if they would like more of the same.
I really have to agree with him. I am losing respect for the American public. The fact the we even have above 30% of the population still thinking of voting for a party that has run this country to the ground economically, socially and militarily really makes me think that they really do not care for their country. All they care for is to get revenge at some perceived culture war humiliation they suffered at some point in their lifetime...
I am actually beginning to believe that John McCain may actually win this election. And not because Obama (and the rest of us) isn't working his butt off to win this thing, but because the Democrats lost the culture wars a long time ago. The fact that a lot of Americans still want to identify with someone who they can go hunting with and have a beer with, as opposed to wanting someone who can run this country in a competent manner, is very telling of what a nation we have become. Maybe that is Obama's biggest miscalculation. That he believes in the fundamental decency of the American people. I can't see any decency in wanting to vote for a party that misled its people into harming a nation that never attacked us. And if its populace still have no regrets about it, then we really do deserve the GOP to plunder and loot this country.
And it's just not Republicans who I despise. There are all those Reagan Democrats who were willing to vote for Hillary but not for Obama that I despise too. Its unbelievable to me that now all of a sudden they see Hillary's values reflection in McCain and Palin
Maybe all those senior citizens, 99% of whom support McCain. whose Social Security funds McCain and Palin want to give their corporate buddies to plunder really do deserve to get screwed.