pleased as punch pedophilia is nuking GOP but embarrassed that

[yurbud]

this is what it took to turn the corner and sink them.

In South America, which is supposedly more backward than us, they chased out their governments for things like privatization and not getting fair royalties from corporations for their oil and other natural resources.

I doubt that most Americans know what privatization is, how much corporations give us for sucking the oil out of our ground or cutting down trees on public land, or are even aware that they pay anything for those.

Instead, we get our panties in a knot about people's sex lives, when you can and can't mention god, and whether you can smoke the weeds in your garden. We are arguing about which picture to hang in the living room while someone is knocking down our house with a wrecking ball.


I have a girl from South Africa in my class who says she normally likes to talk about politics, but she has to keep her mouth shut around most Americans because they are so ill-informed but simultaneously smug.

Obviously, this ignorance had to be cultivated and nurtured, but it still pisses me off.