So I was thinking about the days often portrayed in movies.. The days of the witch hunt after Communist supporters in the USA back in the 50’s. Anybody else remember learning about the McCarthy trials? How they were basically a witch hunt? How basically anybody that did not believe the same as the Republicans and Conservative Democrats that were behind the trials were “linked” to Communism as a way of discrediting them? One of the things I find most distasteful about the Republican party is the fact they like to lead these crusades and play on the common Americans fears. Oh, what is the common America scared of this decade? We can play on that to get elected. Then we can abuse our opponents with the magnifying glass of suspicion. Nevermind the damage done to our society. Remember folks, the US was created with the idea of being the great melting pot.
I find it sad that a small group can play on peoples fears to this point, and find it disgusting that they do as often as they can drum up a common enemy to use to put themselves in power. If you are curious about what I mean with this, just do some searching on Pat McCarran and Joseph McCarthy. A very scary time for America. A very dividing time.. Much like now with Bush and Terrorism and linking everyone and anyone they get half a chance to to Terrorists. Now they are trying to link Obama to an activist from the 70’s that was a radical.. Who cares? If we did not care about Bush being a worthless drunk in the 70’s, why should we care that Obama knew a guy who was a radical in the 70’s?
I get sick of the smear attacks this time of year. I do not care who Obama knows, I do not care what McCain got linked to in the 80’s. If he did not go to prison for it, who cares? Like we don’t know they are all crooks to one degree or another. Who cares what John Kerry did in the 70’s? Was he a war hero? Everything I have seen says yes.. Did he come home and go to anybody who would listen about the stupidity of the war? Yep.. To me, that just means he was willing to speak up when many sat down or found ways around serving. Why did Bush find that a reason to attack him? To me, that made Bush that much more of a despicable person. Attacking an actual hero as he was staying in the states being a drunk and a drug user. Like I said though, this is history, not what we need to hear about.
What I really want to know is, what are they going to do to take care of the National Debt? What are they going to do to help our old people who have lost all of their retirement in the break down of our economy? Stop and consider the baby boomers who were just starting retirement and now many of whom have lost it. What is going to be done to help them? Great, we are helping the companies that screwed up, but what are we doing to help the every day Americans? What will they do for health care? Food? Prescriptions? Homes? What are we going to do to help them? What are we going to do to make the world a safer place? Cause being a bully is not going to do that in my opinion. As I recall from the play ground as a child, running around throwing things at people and calling them names is not the best way to make friends. Neither is walking around with a bat threatening to hit everyone who says or does something you don’t like.
Come on people, lets vote on the issues. Not the Issue. I realize many are against abortion, and that is fine, but is that one issue really worth voting for people who bankrupt us and drag us into wars and ruin relations with other major powers around the world? I think not. Stop believing the hype they put out and the hate, and start looking at the issues. Personally, I think we need other parties if we want real change, but in the meantime, I will take the lesser of the two evils and vote for Obama just because I will never trust another Republican in office after seeing what Bush did to our National Debt and our Diplomacy with other Countries in 8 short years.
