For the past several weeks I’ve been amazed. Amazed at the gullibility. Amazed at the stupidity. Amazed at the level people have gone to. This is supposed to be a site where people contribute and share ideas. Goals for electing good candidates. Getting the word out.
It has turned into a shit storm of Al Franken defenders and saints that condemn Al Franken defenders. The high road and low road folks are in full swing.
Gear up, dig in to my previous posts. Dig deep. Ain’t much there. I’ve pretty much sucked at writing diaries and you will find few (and for good reason). Gather your ammo and devastate me with your vast knowledge of how things work and tell me I’m a “troll” or whatever fits your superiority complex. I’m just a simple dude that’s been sitting back watching what’s been going on.
Lets get the first part out of the way. I don’t like Roy Moore. I didn’t like Roy Moore before the “allegations”. Yes, allegations. He’s a bible thumping Ass hole in the first order that has no business deciding anything relating to the lives of you, me or anyone else. He is the worst kind of politician you could ever “NOT” wish for. He is not qualified to represent America in any way, shape or form.
But...Roy Moore is an American citizen. He is a citizen of the good old U S of A. He is not above the law nor is he subject to be ruled guilty in the absence of any trial nor by public opinion. It doesn’t matter that allegations are substantial and have merit. They are allegations. If people in Alabama want an accused pedophile in the senate, then that is their choice.
Now we have Al Franken. Accusations ensue. He apologized for what he is aware of. I really don’t care if he apologized for the “known” supposed transgression, he’s being strung up for shit he can't even keep up with. He acknowledged and apologized and asked for an investigation. He’s being hung out to dry in the public court of opinion. Same as Roy Moore. Don’t like the analogy? Well too bad. It’s the same shit. Different brands of shit but they both stick just the same.
Now we get to go back and forth on who is more righteous and who is more offended and oh the indignation!
The Democratic pols that are demanding his resignation are nothing but a group of posturing pols. It’s all posture. A word I learned from hanging around here from long ago was “kabuki”. It’s all theater and it’s all bull shit. The “purists” want to sacrifice someone who actually does good for our country for the sake of theater trying to get fucking “votes” that are not there and never will be. Political. Fucking. Expedience.
To me this is really not a matter of “high road vs low road”. This is BS vs BS.
And for political expedience this is just the boon of all boons. We are divided. We are arguing over molestation vs butt grabbing. And then arguing more about “shattered lives” and consequences. Neither of which should be glossed over but they are distractions. Purposeful distractions.
This is our well oiled “democracy” of the 21st century. Keeping the peasants distracted. Keeping us fighting amongst ourselves. And we keep allowing it...and feeding it.
What we as a society are fighting for and what politicians are fighting for are two different things. What we are fighting about amongst ourselves is not unimportant but mostly wasted. They are side shows and we need to wake up and understand what’s being done to us and what we are allowing.
The Al Franken vs Roy Moore diaries are quite frankly…BS
Al Franken should stay and Roy Moore should still run. That’s my opinion.