Stop Thinking and START MAKiNG MOVES !!!

We are too complacent these days. Technology has advanced our world in innumerable ways, but it has come at a great cost: we are now content to sit and watch our lives happen to us, rather than making things happen ourselves. We are too content to let our fingers do the walking across a keyboard, when our feet should be walking and marching across the pavement!

These are desperate times. Every day I see the country dangerously inching back toward the hostile, polarized social climate of the 1960s. Racial, political, and socio-economical issues are derailing our way of life in such a way that demands action by the American People. History has shown us that two things get results in this country: Money and Emotions. Look at the Civil Rights Movement (CRM). The Montgomery bus boycotts integrated the public transportation system how? By hurting the pockets of the transit companies. Many people were able to organize without the use of more than a telephone, but imagine if there was only an online petition against the segregation policy. Nothing would have ever changed because anger and internet “outrage” affects nothing in cyberspace. Had protesters simply started an online blog collective to protest segregation instead of being at sit-ins, getting hosed by the police, etc., and allowing the subsequent melee to be broadcast on TV, they never would have gained the support of Northern sympathizers. Who knows what the outcome of the CRM may have been???

Because of technology, idiots like Sarah Palin are allowed to interact with the media via Facebook and Twitter. How self-deprecating for a news organization (even Faux [Fox]-News) to engage in her little game. Even the despicable piece of flotsam that is Rush Limbaugh gives interviews to the media and allows them to ask him questions that aren’t pre-screened beforehand. But noooo, the entire news world plays into Palin’s game, reporting on her tweets and Facebook status updates as If that is considered news. She refuses to give interviews to anyone but Faux News and does so because she is incapable of putting together coherent answers unless asked about “commonsense, conservative solutions”.

The aforementioned practices, not technology in and of itself, are what’s damaging the fabric of our society. It may seem hypocritical of me to write this on a blog on the Internet, but I’m not saying stay offline, just use it wisely! Harness the Internet’s interconnectivity to organize, but in order to mobilize, sorry my dears, you’ve got to GET OFF THE COMPUTER.

WHY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO DIE....

Okay, so everyone must be thinking, Meaghan’s shrooming again; what in the balls is she talking about. Thanks to Sarah Palin, everyone seems to think that the Republican party is a bunch of rednecks, conservative, evangelical, white, Christian, uneducated people. And I will be the FIRST to say, that is not what the Republican party represents. That IS however, what Sarah Palin’s supporters represent. That’s all we saw at the rallies for McCain/Palin, but that is hardly the majority of the party.

Being a Republican doesn’t make you a bad person, being a Sarah Palin supporter just makes you kind of a dumbass. Okay, let me not get on a Palin rant, I’ll save that for another blog. I’ll just say I really wish she would GO AWAY and get violated by the Abominable Snowman in the Alaskan tundra, then have the baby since she hates abortion so much. *Cheap Shot =)*

Right now the Republican party is at odds with itself. Half of them right now are known as the right-wing conservative party base who wants to engage in the second culture war of politics. Although they CLAIM to call Barack a Socialist because of supposed “spreading the wealth” policies, they actually have no wealth to spread since they have lower income, lower levels of education, lower socioeconomic standing; therefore they have a poor understanding of global and domestic economic policy issues; resulting in their culture war issues of GUNS, GOD, & GAYS. The 3Gs as I will call them are what they really base their votes on, and I personally have a problem with that because even in times of a prosperous economy because there are way more important issues than that; namely EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE, SOCIAL SECURITY, FOREIGN RELATIONS, CRIME RATES, etc…

Then you have the rest of the Republicans who are rational citizens, some of whom I wholeheartedly agree with on some policies. Like healthcare, before John McCain’s ridiculous “tax-credit” which really wasn’t a credit at all. I do not believe in government mandated or sponsored/subsidized healthcare. I believe that HMOs are the devil and the free market should decide healthcare prices, and therefore, that would bring the prices down to a rate that were much more affordable to American citizens. Also people love to think that Bill Clinton was the savior of our country in the 1990’s creating a balanced budget and a surplus. Well he was and is a great leader with great ideas, but it was a majority Republican Congress who helped to balance the budget; Bill didn’t do it alone.

Believe it or not, the country is not half Republican and Half Democrats. Its actually more like a third of each, with the rest of the population registered as independent. We need the Republican party as a major party simply for the free flow of ideas and opposition to ideas. Whenever you have one party in a lopsided majority, it leads the way for corruption, greed and lack of challenge to authority. Democrats are not angels, people. They are just as corruptible as any Republican; if given the huge opportunity that the death of the Republican party would bring.

What the Republican party is faced with is a dearth of ideas, and subsequently a dwindling constituency. Republicans are against science, quoting their unbridled faith in GOD, fiercely for all personal rights (which kind of defeats the purpose of a government) including GUNS, and a strictly conservative social view virtually equating GAYS with evil. Their current 3G platform alienates too many people. The country is getting less white and more educated every day, and the same old Reagan Rhetoric just isn’t going to cut it anymore.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not an Independent, and DEFINITELY not Republican I’m a registered and faithful Democrat. But I believe that two heads are better than one. Believe it or not, on Capitol Hill, the Democrats and Republicans DO work together sometimes, and have the possibility to create great new ideas and directions for the country to go in. But the absence of an intelligent Republican party would inevitably mean that Democrats ideas would go unchallenged and no one would second guess them. The heart of our Democracy would be lost without an opposition party. PERIOD. And for the Republican’s party’s sake, they better PRAY that Mitt Romney or someone similar emerges as your party’s next leader, and not Sarah Palin. Otherwise, we may have a second secession from the union on our hands. You think a civil war cant happen again? Well they all said a Great Depression can’t happen again and look where we’re heading now. Call Sarah Palin your leader and see if we don’t have a second version of the Confederate states of America headed by Palin; and she will live at Fox News Headquarters.

*for all my Republican friends, please don’t think there’s any chance of me joining your ranks any time soon, or EVER. All you Sarah Palin supporters can go back to Alaska with her and get molested by a big, GAY, multiracial, Socialist, Atheist, Abominable Snowman…o yeh, and the Media-Elite will videotape it and put it on YouTube. =)

yes, another cheap shot, but they will continue until I write my full Sarah Palin blog entry; and get my complete disdain for her completely off my chest. After that, the cheap shots will be kept to a minimum =)