So it's been almost 4 months since my last post. Far too long, if you ask me, but the good thing about time is that it always brings both welcome and unwelcome change, and recently I've had about enough of both.
Long story short, I moved out of one house and back in with my parents, cut back my hours at work, quit smoking, and (most recently) wrecked the ever loving shit out of my car. Yes, I'm ok. And yes, the car is totaled.
But that's not what we're here to talk about today, ladies and gentleman. We're here to talk about my favorite group of old, fat white dudes, the Republican Party. Currently, said party seems to be ripping itself apart from the inside. Mitt Romney is leading the pack as far as presidential nominations go (despite his obvious hatred of the poor), but Rick Santorum's recent string of victories have shown that not all red states are happy with good ol' Mittens. And then their's Newt.
Ahh, Newt Gingrich. This is the man who wanted to get rid of child labor laws and put kids as young as 12 and 13 into janitorial and maintenance in order to help low income families. Aww c'mon Newt, you slimy little fuck, why don't you just pay the families to ruin their kids childhood and dump cleaning agents all over them every night? That would have about the same effect.
This isn't to say I'm gung-ho for President Obama. Looking back at his 4 years in office, it's easy to spot the multitude of wonderful promises that were never fulfilled. We as a nation were let down, and have suffered because of his inaction. Yes, several great things were accomplished during the Obama administration, and yes, the last few months have seen him step up and begin to be the president we had all hoped for, but this is not enough. Obama has failed us, and has opened us up to the arguably worse republican party.
Where is our hope? Where is the light at the end of the tunnel in these dark times? If our current president cannot keep his promises, and each republican candidate is more horrifying than the last, who then will step up and set things right? Our country is dying, folks. The American dream is dead, and lays rotting in the gutter with whats left of the middle class.
No one is here to help us.
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