I Wish They All Could Be California Girls....again

[mtnsnake]

but they can't for the time being, thanks to the divisive efforts of George, Karl, Dick, Sean, Rush, & all their self-righteous hate-filled minions who successfully got everyone in this country split into two factions that despise each other.

I was on my was back home from a hike I did last night after work, feeling invigorated, listening to good tunes in my truck, and they played one of my old favorite feel-good songs, California Girls by the Beach Boys. What a great song! Well that's what got me thinking about this, and the damage these scumbags (Bushco & the radio mob) have done to our way of life....our way of looking at people. My mood went from one of elation to one of disappointment.

It wasn't all that long ago that we looked at one another in a different manner...something more simple...something more fun. Do you remember when "east coast girls were hip", when southern girls knocked you out "with the way they talk", when "the mid-west farmers daughters really make you feel alright", and when "the northern girls with the way they kiss they keep their boyfriends warm at night"? I remember it...

Maybe there's more to looking at people than in ways like the lyrics to that song suggested, but those were good times.

Unfortunately, we don't look at fellow Americans like that nowadays. We look at them as suspiciously....as possible Democrats, Republicans, leftist liberals, right wing neo-cons....as the possible enemy.....and it's all thanks to the hate-mongering louses that I previously mentioned in this post.

Damn, I wish they all could be California girls again, but these right-wing venom-spewing divisive fucks have ruined all that, at least for the time being.

We need to go after them for doing this.

[knowbody0]

1. divide and conquer

[AX10]

2. divide and conquer.

[Dogmudgeon]

3. So don't hate

There are a LOT of "right-wingers" who are only that way because of cultural identification. They are no more hateful than you or me -- and possibly a lot less so.

Being a guy, if you are single, you can get plenty of "practice" talking to and flirting with born-again Christian girls. As a computer programmer, I used to hang out with conservative and libertarian coders frequently. And so on.

Start looking at them as your friends and neighbors again. You don't have to turn every social encounter into a fight, and pick your fights with care.

One of the ways to win is to not fall into their trap(s).

--p!

[jaysunb]

4. Great Post !

:toast:

[mtnsnake]

5. That's nice advice but it has little to do with the OP of this thread

The point I was making is that I'm sick and tired of the divisiveness that's made people look at one another through politically colored sunglasses.

I blame that divisiveness on the people I mentioned in my OP, not you and I or the chicks, neighbors, friends you're talking about. That divisiveness they've created isn't make believe and I think the ones responsibe....Bushco, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc....need to be held accountable for doing it.

[Dogmudgeon]

6. But it IS the point

There's only one way to marginalize these knuckleheads -- that is to reject their methods and rhetoric. Yes, make friends with your non-liberal neighbors. When they hear the sirens of the Right, they will have personal experience that the stereotypes about liberals are complete nonsense.

I'm not arguing that anyone should be a doormat; friendship and participation in one's community is a dynamic thing, not a passive relationship. It's a kind of day-to-day activism.

So how does one hold right-wing screedsters accountable? "Accountability" usually means "punishability", but it's not a democratic ideal to punish people who act like jerks. Letting them drown in their own ocean of bile is just as effective. They all do.

Don't follow their lead. Hate-promoters fall into infamy quickly enough. Father Charles Coughlin ... Joe McCarthy ... Martin Dies ... A. Mitchell Palmer ... Richard Nixon ... the modern crop of Ultra-Republicans and Neo-Conservatives will also get their due. History won't just spit them out -- it will vomit them up.

And the worst punishment of all will be that no one will care about them by that point.

--p!