A Mix of Mitt and Metaphors
What frightens me the most about the pending election is not the fact that Romney has created a very public and incredibly obvious web of deceit and lies, nor that his presidency, should he win, promises to take our country back to the rapid decay and blatant disregard of moral compass and irresponsible economics that we have worked so hard to escape, but that so many Americans are willing to support his efforts to make it happen.
It is widely accepted by those relying on such tools as math and reality that a large percentage of Romney’s supporters will be among the first to feel the bite of his presidential practices, and, sadly, history has shown that they will most likely embrace the affront with cheers and shouts of joyful ignorance. They are the proverbial flock bleating at the incumbent sheepdog, even as Romney, the wolf in this scenario, leaves them shorn and bloodied for mutton.
There are those in my own life that proudly pledge their unyielding support to Mr. Romney, and in doing so they have proven a point that has often been whispered just outside the earshot of polite society or commonly laughed off as stereotype, but still exists in painful number — the masses are united by a simple lack of education and the fears that surely follow.
There are a number of exceptions, to be sure, but even the majority of those individuals with college credits and/or life experiences beyond the pale of their own comfort zone (neither of which, in my opinion, is more valuable than the other) tend to hail from geographical areas best known for things other than reason or empathy. They come from places where hate is so prevalent that nobody seems to notice it, and the benefits of higher education are mocked and discouraged — to the point that despite their apparent rise above it they still play by the rules of the only game they have ever known, and the game is sad and dangerous.
It is that mob mentality that frightens me. It is all torches and pitchforks, spewing forth hate with little concern for fact or the suddenly restrictive confines of grammar — and they spread their twisted fervor with such reckless abandonment that they never stop to realize that the monster before them is nothing but smoke and a funhouse mirror.
Perhaps a timely moment of quiet reflection may prove itself quite useful.
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Great post and one that poses a great point about blind support for a candidate.
I think my overall concern is that given the number of GOP candidates that ran this year and last, who would have been a better choice for those that are currently giving their complete support to Romney? While I’m firmly in the Obama camp, I have to admit that I was really looking forward to a Jon Huntsman candidate running against Obama. At least there would have been some real experience and a moderate approach to the crazy wacky that most of the other candidates offered (and are currently offering).
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Something resembling civilized would be fantastic. Obviously I am also Team Obama, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have concerns or questions about one topic or another, and I voice them as such.
However, I just can’t fathom how people can support someone so adamantly when they know that he is lying to them every chance he gets. Even if people want to stick with the party ticket, which is, clearly, their right, at least call them (including Ryan in there) on the things that everyone knows are false. Why don’t people demand more from their candidate?
Pitchforks and torches indeed! Once again, well articulated and presented. It feels like the caustic nature of American politics forces some folks to assuage their guilt by relying exclusively on jingoistic phrases, party line voting, and long dead rallying cries. I wish our “civil”ization would put as much forethought and energy into politics as it does sports. It would be anti-doping on a whole new level.
Anti-doping of politics! I love it. I wonder if Congress would get the irony.
I am fist bumping you for every word. It simply astonishes me how many people blindly vote against their own best interests.
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Very well put, and definitely a different tack from my post!
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I am basing this on my own research into friends on FB that support Romney (by liking his official FB page) — over 80% of them fit the mindset that I outlined above, and I just had to say something.
There was a great video on Real Time w/ Bill Mahr where someone went to Missisipi and interviewed the locals. And despite the fact that they benefit from Government programs more than most down there, and the fact that they know they do, the subjects interviewed seemed to agree they would rather give up that help and have someone in office who leads with his religion and lack of pigment. Sometimes people vote their principles despite any info to the contrary I guess. Or what those principles might be.
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It really is difficult to understand why anyone would do their damnedest to vote against their own interests, and those of everyone around them.
It is so strange reading this when the candidate you support has already been caught in his lies. I’m not saying that Mitt isn’t saying whatever he needs to say to get elected. I’m not feeling that Mitt is the answer. However, Barack lied all up and down his campaign four years ago, is lying still, the repercussions of his lies have come to fruition, and yet all I see are democrats in denial of the truth, and just as glassy-eyed and vacant as they were when they were attending his campaign speeches four years ago.
I feel that what America needs, what voters need to do, is fire that lying, murdering S.O.B. He murders American citizens without trial, the NDAA of 2012 is authorizing the president to indefinitely detain American citizens – again without trial, or even knowing who is accusing you of what. Barack has taken Bush’s post 9/11 overreaction and run with it. He is attempting to make us a police state. Give him four more years in office, and he will repeal term limits and declare himself king (dictator, emperor, whatever).
As I mentioned on another blog, I think the entire process is a lie, our government is corrupt, our courts are corrupt, and regardless of who you mark as your choice, you’re going to witness the decline of the Great Democratic Experiment.
Tinfoil is the new black.
Nice. Perfect response. I think the election quieted down a number of the crazies.
I like my crazies quiet!