Conservatives seem to be pleased to see Obama's approval rating drop to 39% - and I suppose the way these statistics play out in a democracy 39% makes sense in some statistically practical way - but personally I find it frightening that almost 40% of the population is so utterly detached from reality, so despairingly incapable of scratching two modestly coherent thoughts together that they still somehow can convince themselves that this is a good president doing a good job - that disturbs me greatly - makes me feel that when I'm walking down the street today no matter in which direction I may happen to look scattered throughout my view will be the torpid, bovine stares of complete fucking morons. Far as I'm concerned if reality held any sway in this increasingly lost land Obama's job approval rating would be at about 10% which would cover that segment of the population that is very close to being brain dead but can still on good days manage the complex operations of a TV remote.
And now it's becoming very clear that sometime in the next few months Obama is going to unilaterally, without any regard to the constitution he swore to uphold or the people he was ostensibly supposed to be the servant of, he's going to for all intents and purposes abrogate America's immigration laws, he's essentially singlehandedly gonna say that the country no longer has any borders - and apparently about 40% of the electorate is going to be fine with that. Sorry, I just don't know how not to be utterly disturbed by something like that - disturbed not by Obama's actions which are just par for the course for him - if you're surprised by any corruption of power or dereliction of duty he and his catamites involve themselves in at this point then you really haven't been paying attention - no, what I find so disturbing is that so many people either don't care about what's going on or simply have no problem with it - there's just no way to look at something like that and not fear for the survival of the democracy.
It's one thing to think Obama an awful president - it's another to contemplate the disturbing reality that this awfulness has been deliberately enabled by a very large chunk of the electorate and virtually all of the media - that's the thing that's truly frightening - because eventually he's not gonna be president anymore, but if the electoral processes of this country are so screwed up, so compromised by idiocy and blind ideology and so vulnerable to manipulation by savvy numbers people that progressives can somehow find a way to get an Obama part two like Elizabeth Warren elected president, then it's over for us - you might as well hang a sign on the door that says 'no longer in the superpower business - goodbye and have a nice day'.
And now it's becoming very clear that sometime in the next few months Obama is going to unilaterally, without any regard to the constitution he swore to uphold or the people he was ostensibly supposed to be the servant of, he's going to for all intents and purposes abrogate America's immigration laws, he's essentially singlehandedly gonna say that the country no longer has any borders - and apparently about 40% of the electorate is going to be fine with that. Sorry, I just don't know how not to be utterly disturbed by something like that - disturbed not by Obama's actions which are just par for the course for him - if you're surprised by any corruption of power or dereliction of duty he and his catamites involve themselves in at this point then you really haven't been paying attention - no, what I find so disturbing is that so many people either don't care about what's going on or simply have no problem with it - there's just no way to look at something like that and not fear for the survival of the democracy.
It's one thing to think Obama an awful president - it's another to contemplate the disturbing reality that this awfulness has been deliberately enabled by a very large chunk of the electorate and virtually all of the media - that's the thing that's truly frightening - because eventually he's not gonna be president anymore, but if the electoral processes of this country are so screwed up, so compromised by idiocy and blind ideology and so vulnerable to manipulation by savvy numbers people that progressives can somehow find a way to get an Obama part two like Elizabeth Warren elected president, then it's over for us - you might as well hang a sign on the door that says 'no longer in the superpower business - goodbye and have a nice day'.
