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In reply to the discussion: If Darren Wilson is innocent, why are so many white people preparing for war? [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)Think of what they are saying when they vote for these parties or if you will, espouse these philosophies.
That many people who are not like them shouldn't vote, shouldn't be educated, shouldn't get healthcare, shouldn't have a decent wage or a place to live, shouldn't have control over their own bodies and their private lives, and should accept 2nd or 3rd class citizenship or none at all.
VICIOUS is what they are and I know quite a number of them, and they are not at all honest about what they are saying. They will exclude, run off and attack those who don't go along. They hide behind the symbols but the result of what they are doing is clear.
What they are supporting is soul crushing, deadly, and that's VICIOUS by my definition. They are NOT good people, no matter how they dress it up because they are NOT wishing good things on other people, they want them out of their way to feel they can destroy us with their bigotry and their own advantage. They are not as obvious as the KKK and Nazis were in the past, but the spirit and the results of their actions are the same.
As Lindy West said right after the 2012 election:
I remember how I felt when George W. Bush was reelected in 2004that pit of absolute unthinkable, desparate despairand so I guess I should have a little more sympathy for the 150 Million Waaahmbulances of the Apocalypse currently flailing all over Twitter. And, beyond that, I should probably be sad about the overt racism of our conservative youngsters and frightened at the gun-nuttiness of our gun nuts.
However. At least for right now, I AM NOT. I am just 99% completely fucking delighted by every single weepy right-wing temper tantrum. I can't stop hate-reading. I can't stop. And you know what? I don't need to stop. It's not like this was some arbitrary election for Homecoming Courtwhere we were choosing between Mitt Romney's totally on-trend bangs and Barack Obama's ability to pull off a structured blazer.
The party that my team defeated on Tuesday was a nebulous, fiscally disastrous pitchfork mob** united by racism, xenophobia, self-interest, willful ignorance, hatred of the poor, and a puritanical desire to deny my gay friends their civil rights and me, PERSONALLY, equal access to health care and basic humanity. That's about as ungracious as it gets. So fuck being gracious.
Going to the link shows the most vocal online rants of the right. They are among the 58,167,260* who voted for Romney and Ryan:
http://jezebel.com/5958966/my-ten-favorite-kinds-of-right-wing-temper-tantrums
*Voter numbers from Huffpo:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/who-won-the-popular-vote-2012_n_2087038.html
That is the tens of millions. In for a penny, in for a pound.
**They haven't changed one damn bit since then, either, only become more extreme. When they stop voting to kill me and mine with a gleeful destruction of my government and everything we have fought to create through generations of struggle and just argue about best to serve the people and not the Koch brothers and other crooks, they'll get a pass.
Until then, they'll get the finger from me.