Right Wingin’…Bitter Clingin’

It was a big joke this week, and everybody got a big laugh out of it. I am talking about Sara Palin and her endorsement of Donald Trump.

All of the left-wing late-night funny-men had a field day showing us clips and soundbites of the most embarrassing parts of an embarrassing rant. It was all over social media too. Everybody seemed to be laughing it up over something I consider to be frightening, terrifying even.

It’s not that somebody like her COULD get elected to the most powerful office in the world, it’s not even the fact that millions of my country men and women would vote for somebody like her. It’s more than just stupid and scary and flat out dangerous people… candidates…running for the most powerful office seat in the entire world. It’s not that hundreds of thousands of people fall into lock step with the scary and disgraceful things they say…these right wingin’ bitter clinger’s to their guns and their Gods and their religions…and their DUHHH constitutions.

No, it’s more insidious than that.

A “Right Wingin Bitter Clinger” WILL be running for president soon, you can bank on it. So will a democrat. My question, is what happened to the republican? Since when did the republican become Ted freakin’ Nugent in a suit? Remember when, not long ago, the republican species was…John McCain, or Mit Romney? At the very least these candidates had a fleck of respectability, and you trusted, at the very least, that they might be credible and responsible leaders if they were elected even though you didn’t necessarily agree with their position on the issues. You didn’t necessarily feel that a vote for them was a vote for stupidity, for danger, for war, for armageddon, for fascism, for bigotry, for intolerance, for oppression, for flat out greed.

Republicans have disappeared; they have become “Bitter Clingers.” But what have democrats become? I maintain that the true democrat is still out there, but he is buried in his own party. In my opinion, Bernie Sanders is the traditional FDR style democrat currently, not Hillary Clinton. In my view, Hillary Clinton is the closest thing we have to a true republican and she’s wearing blue. If you simply flipped flopped her views on “hot button distractions issues” such as guns, fetuses, and gay marriage she would be “Reagan light” beholden to big money and corporate donors just like any other 2 party figurehead.

So, now I shudder when I see what a general election might look like…a Bitter Clinger versus another Clinton.

This is not eve an illusion of choice anymore.

What scares me is this seems to have slipped under the nose of the smart and sensible people in this country. The slow death and infected rotting corpse of a Democracy…a scam of a political system and electoral process that has left us with no choice but to vote down the stupid and dangerous.

It has become incumbent upon sensible people to simply keep the dangerous people, dangerously stupid and /or dangerous in general, out of office. What used to be settling for the “least worst” of 2 shitty candidates has devolved into common sense versus non-f#cking-sense…with choice taken clearly out of the mix! Our next general election will be a crusade against idiots or megalomaniacs. This is a tragic loss for all of us and a big win for big money.

But I still have hope.

I’m idealistic enough to believe that we could all end us as winners, right and left wing bitter clingers alike. In my innocent and spongy brain I see a popular loser of the primary, who got beaten to the nomination of their sham political party running as a third party, or as an independent for president against this scam of a system. I see a populous breaking free from the corrupt red versus blue  mentality and understanding that we do have choices, and that even one vote for a third or independent party outside of the red vs. blue flim-flam is a victory for a real democracy and a step toward revolution.

Before I log off, I want to discuss another bitter clinger who I just want to freakin’ go away.

Ted freakin’ Nugent.

Ted, do me a favor and just play guitar. Play guitar and sing Wango ZEE Tango and then just shut the f#ck up. Shoot your bow and arrow, hoard your precious guns in your spare time, slaughter as many fuzzy critters as you care to shove down your esophagus, and then just shut the f#ck up about it.

Believe what you want, you are free to do so. I support your freedom to do whatever and say whatever you want — including being a total A-hole f#ckhead. I don’t care.

But, promote what you are GOOD AT, not what you absolutely SUCK AT.

You absolutely suck as a political activist. You are a poorly conceived caricature and a mockery of the cause you claim to represent, and with every bit of gibberish you speak you further marginalize your “movement.”

STFU!!!!

You are a good and qualified guitar player that produced some decent tunes back in the day…please, stick with that. Embrace being an aging rocker with some gas left in the tank as Lemmy or David Bowie did. There is no shame in being a working musician…in fact there are thousands of us out there that wish we could step on a stage and have throngs of people yelling for us to play your own original compositions that are revered as classics. Wear the badge proud, make some eardrums bleed and bring a smile to a roomful of drunks and maybe write a new song every once and a while, if you can.

We don’t give a shit about you as a political windbag. Crank your amps to 11, strap on your guitar and duct tape your mouth closed.

If you play good music I will listen and crank you louder, if you want to talk politics I will shut you off completely.

Thanks!