blackascoal
The Force is With Me
Much love to you my brother, and I take no offense from your thoughts.
As for my being African-American, which I am, which votes in lock step more than any other demographic, which we do, and my voting in lock step with them, for the most part, you are correct on all counts. We are a communal people by nature and by necessity. When you spend nearly 400 years under attack, survival forces you to circle the wagons and fight the cowboys as a group. It's one of the reasons why we survived and my brothers, the American Indian, did not. I'm also part American Indian (Ogala), as are a great many African-Americans. It's a fascinating story if you aren't aware of it .. but that's another story.
You'll notice in my definition of sheeple that I did not define it as "following a politician who agrees with you", being a conservative, republican, or anything else but following the Bush Administration. I recognize that I'm talking in generalities here, but in my opinion, those who did have a special cross to bear. "Sheeple" is the very least of what they should be called. They, and I don't know if you did or not, followed the worst president in American history into the worst military disaster and blunder in American history. The blood of countless innocent people are on their hands, including the blood of our own brave men and women in uniform who have died, been blown apart, and traumatized for nothing. Dead for nothing.
The reprocussions and fallout from this disaster will last for generations. It has resulted in the loss of power, influence, respect, and stature for America all over the world. We've just spent every last drop of goodwill this nation gained from our heroic efforts in WWII. Anti-Americanism is at an all time high, and now, most people in the world believe that America is one of the most dangerous nations on earth, and history has just written that to be a fact.
The real tragedy of this "sheeple blowback" is that nothing could have been more obvious, more right in your face obvious than the lies and deceptions of the Bush Administration. One would almost have to be a lobotomy candidate not to recognize it. "Mushroom clouds in 45 minutes" .. that requires a lobotomy for anyone who fell for that bullshit. Iraq had been under sanctions for 12 years .. and they snuck and built a nuclear reactor? .. Lobotomy.
EVERYTHING about the Bush Administration is covered in the filth of lies and stench of deception. From stealing the office (twice), to secret meetings with their oil corporation masters, to the fraud of 9/11, the fraud of the attack on Afghanistan, the fraud of WMD and Saddam (which was following the orders of PNAC who told them to invade Iraq "even if evidence didn't exist"), Jessice Lynch directed by Jerry Bruckheimer, Pat Tillman, the fraud of the toppling of Saddam's statue, the fraud of the Iraq Oil Law, fraud on top of fraud which continues even to this day as they try to hide documents and evidence of their evil.
I have a daughter who is on her THIRD tour of duty in Iraq. I'm up this early in the morning after a night full of nightmares. You'll have to excuse me sir if you have problems with my definition of people who capitualted to a very obvious horror.
"Sheeple" .. hell .. anyone who has supported the Bush Administration should wear that with pride. They should have it engraved into their foreheads and wear it like a Scarlet Letter. They should call their own children sheeplets. It is the least they could do for what they have done to this nation.
I also recognize the capitulation and cowardice of the democrats .. which is one reason why I'm not a democrat. But they are guilty of cowardice, the Bush Administration is guilty of contrived evil, sheeple are guilty of incredible ignorance. Now Bush is looking at 26% approval and the sheeple are trying to slide/blend back into the world of people with brains, some claiming they've been here all along.
Finally, on that African-American lock step thing .. it's too bad that the rest of America didn't lock step with us. We've never supported this war, we've never supported Bush or his neocon horde. His approval among blacks was 2% years ago and only 9% voted for him. Had the rest of America lock stepped with us, countless people will still be alive and America would still be looked upon as the leader of the free world.
Perhaps you should spend time talking to the brothers in East Oakland about politics.
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