Democracy Is Not Always Decent

While a true democracy (which we do NOT have) may be the best way to rule a nation, democratic systems are not always on the level. So many people in this nation are so convinced that the government is keeping them safe from the terrorists and Communists that they refuse to see anything bad about it.

They refuse to recognize the fact that we do not directly elect our leader. Every voter could cast a ballot for candidate A in 2008, and a properly bribed electoral college could still simply elect candidate B.

They refuse to recognize the fact that this bullshit oil war is spawning more terrorists than we have ever killed. In fact, they reufse to recognize that it IS a bullshit oil war.

They refuse to recognize that the government has its claws in everything. News and print media, publishing of all types, the internet, just about anything you can think of, the government is likely to have a heavy hand in it. I don't think they are, but I would not be too surprised if the NSA has a special division created to read dissenting blogs.

They refuse to recognize that Area 51 does exist, that we do not know what is contained there, and that people who try to find out have disappeared.

They refuse to accept the fact that there is almost no way in hell that Oswald killed Kennedy, and refuse to do any reading whatsoever on the subject besides nice, clean, government-sanctioned BULLSHIT.

And finally, they refuse to accept any of the above, because their parents, teachers, preists or pastors, and whatever media they commonly use for information, have brainwashed the living crap out of them. They refuse to take off their rose-colored glasses and see the blood-red dark side of the government, and they will be the first ones to speak up in favor when Congress and the president roll us right into full-on fascism.

With all due respect for them, they disgust me.