05 August 2008
With Liberty and Ignorance for All: McCain in South Dakota
Awkward as ever, John McCain appears at a biker rally in Sturgis, S.D., an annual meeting of some of America's most colorful folks more famous for their world renowned crystal methamphetamine laboratories than their rich cultural history.
If there were any single gathering of Americans about whom James Madison intended his warnings regarding the perils of a popular democracy, this would have been it.
Just as Hillary Clinton had done during the primary season, John McCain is playing the "heartland" card. Effectively, Mr. McCain is boasting, as if it were some deranged and frightening source of pride, that he is the candidate who best represents the ideas and interests of America's dumbest, most politically ignorant, ethnocentric and xenophobic population.
Sadly, this appears to be one of McCain's best plays (even if his execution is painfully uncomfortable to watch), as it exposes what the public for some reason has decided is his opponent's main weakness: that Barack Obama is too intelligent and "out of touch" with ordinary (read: dumbest, fattest, most apathetic generation in US history) Americans.
Not long ago, the President of the United States was a Rhodes Scholar and intelligence was considered a presidential prerequisite, not a stigma. How a country can change when the village idiot ascends to lead the free world, inconceivably broadcasting to American children everywhere that they too can stumble through life in an inebriated coma for 35 years before waking up to find God and the White House thrust upon them.
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance," Madison wrote, and we can only hope he was right.
So help us all.
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3 responses:
It is people like you that are the Moron's. America is a very large country,and it is the dumb political assholes that go for Masses. I want a President, not a celebrity, someone whom i can trust in, not just believe, if i need to believe it, that its not real. Get some real political views.
its the nature of our political system that forces politicians to cater to the interests of people whom should never be allowed to make any important decisions, let alone critical political decisions.
the last eight years make me yearn for plato's utopian kallipolis and its guardian philosopher kings.
seiffs political views arent the problem, but your kind neednt be allowed in the discussion.
sieff is a boss. shut the fuck up hoe.
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