Treason of the Radicals, part III

With the potent combination of faith and talk, there exists today an atmosphere where vices are blown out of proportion and the smallest transgressions become the greatest crime ever committed against a given nation/group. Simply put, the ideas and needs of the self, to feel vindicated, righteous, and having a purpose, are fulfilled more and more by the media and the church of modern America; however, these constructs can only go so far to legitimize this sort of shameless self-gratification, the buzzword that has become cliché in this series. Basically, the church and the media make self-gratification palpable for the masses, but only on a small, personal level. There is no superstructure where self-gratification become apparent as anywhere outside of the home and the gathering of close people, until you encounter that very last portion of the constant-twisted Romantic ideals of the self.

Today, the American political system has been hijacked by the radicals of each respective organization. Today, the Democratic party is headed by Howard Dean, the screaming maniac from Vermont. We all remember his debacle during the 2000 Democratic Presidential Primary, and some of his quotes are show his militaristic us/them mindset:

I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for.
Howard Dean

Everything they stand for? Simply put, Mr. Dean is a demagogue on par with those of his counterparts on the right. He is out to stoke the fires, to raise the rabble, and to move the Democrats to the foaming-at-the-mouth self-destructive rhetoric and tactics they employ today. Once again, the image of self-gratification through the definition of yourself in response to an enemy, however real or perceived it may be, is apparent. Not only is it apparent, it is shocking. One of the biggest complaints against John Kerry's presidential campaign was his inability to come up with a clear-cut platform on which to run for President. What kind of man runs for leader of the free world on a platform that basically amounts to whatever-he-says-I'm-going-to-do-opposite?! Tragic, really, that one of our parties relies on this sort of basic appeal to indignation and childish tactics in an effort to gain votes.

Don't think the Republicans are any better. If anything, the neo-conservative heads of the current Republican Party is one of the most atrocious in their tactics employed to gain support and buy the votes of America through shameless validation of the self through tactics of holy-than-thou destruction of the others, as well as a penchant for lies, half-truths, abuse of power, and pure disdain for the modern American citizen. The truth to the GOP, as it stands now, is this: A corrupt party full of liars, thieves, nepotists, and villains on par with that of a sub-Saharan autocratic dictatorship. Lies have been made over and over. Today, backers of the GOP are quick to show their adept skills at legalism, by pointing out that the Iraq War was done for a plethora of reasons, i.e. Removal of a dictator, saving a population from human rights abuses, and so on and so forth. Yet, the matter of weapons of mass destruction has never been solved. Why is this the largest matter of concern to Americans?

Simply put, they were the justification for the invasion of Iraq. The current administration, for all of its anti-UN rhetoric and actions, still reverted to UN resolutions to justify their invasion, referring to resolutions that ended the Gulf War and the resolutions, specifically clauses relating to disarmament. Despite this apparent credibility gap, the administration continues to play this off as nothing more than childish attacks on the righteous people defending this nation through press statements and talking heads. This is not the exception, this is the rule for this current regime.

Up-armored Humvees. Abu Grahib. Hurricane Katrina. Valerie Plame. Yellow cake. Duck Tape and plastic. Lies. The sadder thing than this, than the fact that they think they can get away with this by playing it off through self-gratification of holier-than-thou and us/them paradigm, is that people allow it to happen and do so because they need to feel their selves have a reason to live and they find it easier to digest than actually sitting down and writing obscenely long blog entries.

Simply put, this is the nail in the coffin. I'm sick. I have nothing more to say.