These ARE the End Times

[oselle]

Twice in the past week I have found myself watching Sarah Palin on television. You who follow my journal know what a fan I am of apocalyptic fiction, yet in all my travels through that genre I have never met a fictitious dystopian villain as over the top as Sarah Palin is in real life. The one that may come the closest is Randall Flagg, Stephen King's grinning, denim-clad antichrist in The Stand. Folksy psychopath (and would-be President of the U.S.) Greg Stillson, from King's The Dead Zone, is also a contender. But none of these characters -- NO fictional character -- even comes close to what Palin puts out there. Her shtick makes the Walkin' Dude look like a two-bit carny hustler. Some people laugh at her but I don't. She scares the living shit out of me.

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[oselle.livejournal.com]

These people DO work hard, they DO have jobs, they pay for their OWN insurance, nobody is spreading ANY wealth to them. And yet HI companies are STILL screwing them over.

Aaaah, but then these folks are supposed to rely on the good Christian charity of their family, friends and neighbors. I know over the summer several Republican lawmakers plainly stated that what we "really needed" was for people to help each other more...and the audience applauded. It's the sort of thing that sounds real pretty and folks lap it up without thinking about what it actually means. They think it means doing something kind, now and then, when you can. But bringing a casserole over to your ailing neighbor's house isn't going to pay for his chemotherapy. A community bake sale wouldn't cover one month of hospitalization for someone who was seriously sick or injured. And how funny that people stand up and cheer for this warm-n-fuzzy notion of folks comin' together...when these very same people go into a spitting rampage over the idea of just a few their tax dollars being used to help out those same "somebody elses." Yeah, I really want to be dependent on the human kindness of people like that. Assholes.

[sixth-queen.livejournal.com]

"Aaaah, but then these folks are supposed to rely on the good Christian charity of their family, friends and neighbors."

Not only that, but rich people should get a better tax break for donating to said Christian charities This is what John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, wrote in his Wall Street Journal editorial. I still haven't bought anything at a Whole Foods since, and I don't intend to.

There's a huge difference between acting like a real Christian and just scoring brownie points with God -- while others are watching, of course.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Well, we all know that tax breaks for the rich are the cure to all our problems. Because wealth trickles down and rising tides lift all boats and without them none of us would have a job because they're the thinkers and creators and producers who make our society run and so we should all be grateful to our corporate overlords and give them many, many, many tax cuts.