There’s Nothing Wrong With Capitalism
Dang it! I cannot escape the rabidness of the people who lost the election and their spewing hatespeak. So, since the topic has been raised, let me say a few things that I feel.

In Los Estados Unidos, there is no law requiring capitalism. The free market is due to freedom. If you are a producer of goods, you can price them as you see fit, and if you are a buyer, you can peruse the market and get the best price and/or quality match for yourself. So, why do some people, namely the left, and probably more far left really, talk about how bad capitalism is. The only way to get rid of capitalism is to remove the citizen’s ability to choose what they want to do with their money.

I think some people confuse consumerism with capitalism. And yes, I think most of us agree that the US has materialism problems. I know I spend too much time with my video games and sometimes I feel bad that my convertible sports car isn’t the perfect fit for my duties as a dad. I wonder if people think badly of me because of it. However, whatever they think, it’s my car and it would be economically unsound to trade it off now.

Who is Who?
And speaking of video games, it was Joe Lieberman who tried to get Mortal Kombat banned, and a bit too late since after MK3 it was pretty much downhill. If he’d just realized that the devil he was looking for was really over at Rockstar Games in the form of Grand Theft Auto, well, quite frankly, he would never get his way, at least I hope, because I’m just not fond of censorship. For those who don’t know, Lieberman is a liberal fellow. A democrat person.

Well, since it’s not the conservatives going after the video game censorship niche, maybe it was them going after censorship of music. Tipper Gore, though married to Al Gore, must secretly be pulling for the GOP, right? No. In fact, the more conservative you are, the more you don’t want the govt messing with stuff.

The reason that conservatives get labeled with this tends to be that we go to church. And certain church groups are against, oh, Harry Potter or rock music because of “the devil beat.” But frankly, as a religious person, these people are nutjobs. They’ll put their 4 year old kid on Santa Claus’s lap, tell their kids Jesus was born on December 24th, Zero AD, and think extra-human powers are fine if it’s Hulk or Spiderman (science based powers) or Superman (alien). Harry Potter is bad because the power source is not extrahuman. Heck, why are Jedi exempt? And I’m speaking in a non-midichlorian Jedi way.

Iglesia y Estado
Liberals don’t tend to go to church. Well, unless it’s right before election time and then they’ll drag their pasty white asses into black churches to try to stir up votes. This hypocrisy is directly against their stance on separation of church and state.

And I wholeheartedly agree with the separation of church and state. I really wish dumb old ex-judge Roy Moore wasn’t allegedly on the Republican side. What did he expect when he made a monument and plopped it on govt property? They’ll remove it. Heck, if I made a giant Mickey Mouse statue and put it at the state courthouse, and they towed it off, I wouldn’t make the claim that the govt hated Mickey. It’d be because I put crap on their lawn.

I’m against allowing religion in state sponsored schools because I don’t want the scientologist teaching my kid about body thetans and Emporer Xenu, or the Mormons teaching them about Planet KOLOB, or the Baptists telling them that my music is devil music, that Jesus was a European white who wore expensive purple robes in front of poor people, and that anyone who says “Save me” gets in heaven. As for my nitpick on the purple robes, check your bible. I only see him wearing one once. The Roman soldiers put it on him to mock him when they were beating the crap out of him.

Robin’ (the) Hood
Liberalism is all about taking money from those who are successful to help out groups of people who may or may not need the money because they can’t cut it. Liberals are usually racist in that they believe that black people don’t have what it takes. Unfortunately, this belief is believed by too many people. Racists on both side of the fence. Housing projects are the modern interpretation of Indian Reservations. Just keep the blacks away. And the liberal org Planned Parenthood, America's favorite abortion referral service, considers one of it's main goals tackling the "black overpopulation problem." Handouts don't help the poor, unless your handing out jobs or education.

One thing that America desperately needs that they are against is the testing of public school teachers to make sure they know what they are doing. How can you defend a stance like that? Wouldn’t you have to want to keep the poor uneducated to have that stance?

Empty Words
But at least it’s a stance, I suppose. Most of the bumper sticker liberals around here are of the “Free Tibet” variety. True, it’d be nice if communist China wasn’t terrorizing Tibet, but your bumper sticker on the back of your Saab convertible isn’t going to do squat.

I could go on. But I’ll just say this one last thing. As a conservative employed in the environmental field, I see air pollution being overplayed tremendously in liberal circles. Water pollution, a much more important matter, is overlooked almost totally. But then again, maybe they believe that our current laws are sufficient. But what it really seems to be is that you can scare people with air more. It’s much more expensive to quantify pollutants in the air.

Conclusion of Rant
When I was young, I thought I was a liberal, until I found out that they are borderline totalitarian. They want to regulate your thoughts and what you do with your money. When they lose elections, they decry the democratic process. Why? Because they believe that they are the only smart people and that Americans as a whole are stupid.

Hmm, have we heard that line this week much?

Etc
I apologize for this unorganized political rant. If you check my archives, you’ll see that I keep politics out of my blog. But I just can’t stand it when these people pull the Nazi, babykiller, starve the old rhetoric comes out. Heck, it’s a democracy. We outnumber you. It’s that simple.

Oh, and I have a degree in communications specializing in rhetorical theory, so maybe I’m a little sensitive. I’ve also wondered why people don’t mine commercials lying to them.

And before 9/11, I guess I tended to lean libertarian, but I’m not going to vote that way.

- posted by Nick Postagulous @ 2:28 PM