SmithAntics

I guess I’m a shitty blogger, because I’m really struggling to come up with stuff to write about here. Amazing, isn’t it? The Republic is careening deeper everyday into an unimaginable hell, and I’m running out of things to write about?

Maybe it’s the fact that every development in this nearly six-year nightmare (we won’t even count the Lewinski years) is rooted in the same four inter-related causes:

— The criminal GOP thugocracy

— The Democratic “leadership” that enables the criminal GOP thugocracy

— The conservative media establishment that advances the cause of the criminal GOP thugocracy

— The lazy, stupid, immoral majority.

And I’m sick of talking about it, because it’s not showing any signs of going away. I'm sick of not having anything positive to write about. I'm sick of the lack of progress. I'm sick of this intolerable impasse. Fuck, it just goes on and on. Don't talk to me about patience. It's been nearly six fucking years of this shit.

I used to think that corruption of this magnitude would eventually be exposed and dismantled, that the moral conscience of America would rise up and call bullshit on this massive injustice. But, of course, as we have seen, we're nowhere near that point.

Nowhere near.

What a thoroughly horrifying, soul-shattering realization that is.

The corruption is so deeply entrenched, and this predominantly middle-class country is so fat, stupid, lazy, and morally asleep that a only a fucking meteorite might possibly break the status quo.

(Uh, scratch that. The equivalent of a meteorite hit the Gulf Coast, yet the status quo remains. Nevermind.)

So sorry if my glass isn’t half full, or if I’m not offering constructive solutions. But, frankly, I’m not the problem. And if you’re reading this, chances are that you are not the problem either.

The problem is the legions of derelict slobs and assholes who have through their own willful or genuine ignorance managed to escape the realization that this country has seriously gone off the tracks. They voted for this shit, and they'll vote for it again.

They are killing this country.

They have allowed material abundance to unmoor them from critical thinking, from basic standards of right and wrong. They are an embarrassment of history – lazy, irresponsible, immoral, complicit in evil.

They are the problem.

And look around you. They are everywhere.

A country with even a molecule of collective moral consciousness and intelligence wouldn’t have come within sniffing distance of a Bush presidency.