I believe we are heading towards a douchebag and shitty fucking human being singularity that will eventually result in the end of the human race.
...and it all comes down to undiluted, "I got mine and I don't give a fuck about my neighbors" greed. The financial backers (ie puppet masters) of the whole astroturf teabaggers movement, who have become so shameless that they are no longer even trying to hide their identities, are so rich that they can afford their own private security forces and fire protection, and want to duck out of their responsibilities for the general welfare, and before anybody says that's the job of the government and not the individual, that philosophy is predicated on the false notion,promulgated by the right, that the government and the people are separate entities.
Wrong.
Why do you think the preamble begins with "We, the people..." or why Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address referred to "government of the people, by the people, and for the people"? Because we are the government, and the government is us. If that is not the case, and the government is serving the interests of the few, in violation of the interests of the many, then We the people need to get off our lazy asses and vote the fuckers out. We outnumber them, and it's time they were reminded that taxes are the price of admission to the benefits of living in a free society, the pooling of resources to do things as a group that we can do as individuals, like build the interstate highway system (a Republican idea, by the way, and a good one, but it should have been paired with a subsidized passenger train system, instead of being built in lieu of providing mass rail transit). The douchebags responsible for the false individuals vs government dichotomy, are greedy pricks who think their responsibility for the public welfare ended when they got rich. "Dick" Armey, of FreedomWorks, one of the astroturf organizations, has always inveighed against publicly funded health care, despite the fact that he has never paid for health insurance in his miserable, lying, hypocritical life. His father was military, so young Dickhead grew up with free health care. Right out of college he taught in the Texas educational system, which had state government subsidized health care as one of its benefits, then went to Congress, which provides free health care to all of its members, and no doubt FreedomWorks provides his health care today, Th point is that from birth through the end of his congressional career "Dick" has been sucking on the government teat, and had the temerity to pretend otherwise. All these "rugged individualists" touting their alleged self-made success, have ignored the leg up society gave them. Clarence Thomas made big time use of affirmative action in his education, before deciding it was no longer needed. Nice "I got mine, so fuck the rest of you" attitude. There's a word for that...let's see...oh, yeah...it's called hypocrisy, and it's a hallmark of douchebagism.
