I've switched. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Wed Nov 03, 2004 at 03:29:18 PM PDT
The Republicans are obviously superior in both numbers and cause, and their agenda should no doubt be a boon to human kind, so there's obviously only one thing left to do at this point. Convert. Therefor, in an act of supreme solidarity to our new national conservative alliance, I would like to say, they're right. I'm ready to sign up.
So, by doing so, I need to declare that I too no longer care about losing millions of American jobs. I no longer care about health care. Or social security. I no longer care about education. I no longer care what happens to the poor, the elderly or the children growing up in poverty, despair and hopelessness. I no longer care that the gap between rich and poor is approaching third world levels. I no longer care that Fortune 500 corporations can avoid paying taxes by opening an offshore mailbox and I no longer care that the working class will be forced pick up the difference. I no longer care that we've taken a record fiscal surplus and in three years turned it into the largest debt in the history of our country or that it will be our children, and their children, that will have to pay it back. I also no longer care how many Americans die at the hands of terrorists (as long as they're dying over
there and not here at home) or how many foreign civilians die in the course of our projecting American global hegemony. I no longer care what the rest of the world thinks of America, as long as they know to fear us. I no longer care about the science of potential medical breakthroughs nor do I care about slowing the spread of AIDS nor whether we have sufficient supplies of safe vaccine. I no longer care that the number of abortions is on the rise (though I'll pound my chest and pretend that I do) because I no longer care about birth control, sex education or family planning. I no longer care about our environment and whether we're allowing industries to poison our water, our air and ultimately our food supply, and I no longer care about the consequences of releasing massive amounts of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere and accelerating global warming. I no longer care that our Bill of Rights, once enshrined to protect our personal freedoms and liberty, is being stripped down or that our 200 year old Constitutional protections are being traded for a false sense of security.
So what do I share with our new majority as my #1 concern? I care about "moral values."
Now that I've completed the switch to the other side "moral values" is all that matters to me. Moral values. Yes sir, I care enough that sufficient people share these "moral values" to make sure that we elect politicians that will put these "moral values" into law (even if it takes rigging the new electronic voting machines) and that those politicians in turn appoint judges guaranteed to ensure that everyone else is forced to live by these "moral values." Now some of you remaining Unbelievers may ask, "But if everything you no longer care about isn't a moral value, what are your `moral values?'" Easy. The single most important "moral value," overriding all other concerns, is that two people of the same sex do not achieve legal recognitions that could be in any way be similar to that enjoyed by heterosexual couples. Health and survivor benefits? Forget it. Employment protection? Come on. Inheritance rights? No way. Hospital visitation? Get real. Adoption? GOD FORBID!
You few, final remaining Democrats, moderates, greens and libertarians really need to get onboard the bandwagon. This new stripped down "moral value" is so easy I don't know why I didn't think of this myself earlier. Effortless morality. That's the ticket. It's like a gift from God. Now let's jam it down everyone's throat.
And God bless the New American Morality.
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