Don't Blame You?

As I was driving to work this morning, I noticed a car next to me that had a bumper sticker that read, "Don't blame me, I voted for McCain."

Seriously? Because the answer to blue-state fascism is red-state fascism?

This is a perfect example of how simple-minded so many people are. Barack Obama is nothing if not a neocon's wet dream -- he's W. without the fricking cowboy boots -- willing to continue maiming, torturing, and slaughtering innocent foreigners overseas while ratcheting up the domestic welfare- and police-state at home and spending the U.S. into oblivion to do it, yet these statist buffoons are apparently too naive to realize there's virtually no ideological difference among the political establishment and its parties.

So yes, sir, I do ultimately blame you for the economic plight, moral blight, and jackboot nationalism that are endemic to American life these days, all because millions of people like you feel the need to satisfy your lust for heroes by empowering slavemasters to sacrifice my liberty for their own accumulation of power.

Comments

[Emily]

If it makes you feel any better, I own a "Don't Blame Me, I Didn't Vote" Tshirt.

Like the "he's W. without the fricking cowboy boots" but the beginning of the last paragraph made me think of Keith Olbermann. *shudder*

[Ms. X]

This is the one on my SUVs...
http://www.zazzle.com/i_voted_for_ron_paul_bumpersticker-128861551523874026

[Redman]

Like Ms. X, the bumper sticker I sport says" Don't blame me, I supported Ron Paul. And it has generated conversations in several parking lots around my area.

[trevor]

Emily, I like your shirt. But the principal difference between me and Keith Olbermann is that he is a party hack who rails in defense of statism, while I rail in the radical defense of liberty.

[Cal Bittersmore]

Miss X: thanks for the link. I'll be picking up one of those skateboard decks (maybe two--one for display and one to ride). Very wise of them to reach out to the youth like that. It seems to me that a lot of kids these days have a genuine desire to make things better, although their good intentions have been hijacked by the state via the DOE (sic). I bet if they had a better idea of what's really going on, Dr. Paul would have his own "youth bridade."

Trevor: your last paragraph sums it up brilliantly for me, particularly in how you note the neocons' (and apparently the neolibs' as well) collective "need to satisfy [their] lust for heroes by empowering slavemasters to sacrifice [our] liberty for their own accumulation of power." At least a few of us are keen enough to realize that the philosophical difference between the two dominant factions of the statist party is about as significant as the difference between Pepsi and Coke. For your defense of liberty, you are now officially one of my heroes. No need to bomb anyone, just keep doing what you do.