Is Politics "just a game" to you?

[Atticus]

I am not a wild-eyed obsessive with a single-minded devotion to all things left of center. But, I am definitely left of center and I am serious about it. For example, the election thefts of 2000 and 2004 deeply, truly and permanently pissed me off. And, like Natalie said, I still "ain't ready to make nice". Any smirking Bushbot who made the mistake of telling me to "get over it" was likely to get handed their ass---figuratively speaking, of course.

So, I have a problem with so-called pundits and commentators who are falling all over themselves to be "nice" or "decent" to some of the most reptilean, mean-spirited gold-plated anal sphincters ever to accept corporate contributions! Why, for example, are we repeatedly subjected to the likes of Tom Delay, Karl Rove and Dick Cheney? How about Bob Barr, Ari Fleischer or Karen Hughes?

From long experience we know that these neo-con whores can be counted on to 1.) excuse any wrongdoing by any Republican, from sex with pages to unprovoked war and genocide, and 2.) condemn any action or words by any Democrat or, if nothing actually said or done moves them, they'll just make it up as they go along.

Should these people be treated with respect by, say, Chris Mathews? Or, if they MUST be heard from, should they be treated with the same degree of "respect" shown to Glenn Beck by Whoopi today? ("You are a lyin' sack of dog mess!")

In any contest between tolerance and intolerance, intolerance MUST win if both sides adhere to their core beliefs without exception. We must make an exception, as liberals with common sense, and resolve NOT to be tolerant of those who refuse to accord us that same respect. Criminals, torturers, traitors and corporate pimps should be called by their names, interrupted, shouted down and laughed at IF they are even given the opportunity to speak off the FOX reservation.

We all know that most of the Bush administration should be in prison. Let's stop pretending they are elder statesmen with valuable insights to share. Thank God for Code Pink and others with the guts and time to "haunt" people like Rumsfeld whenever they dare show their face in public!

[Xipe Totec]

1. Yes, in the way Russian Roulette is a game... n/t

[shadowknows69]

5. Like "The Deer Hunter" Russian Roulette

Where you keep adding another bullet after each pass around the table. Only one left is the fucker who was smart enough to kill everyone else once the gun was full.

[Xipe Totec]

8. Precisely

what was going through my mind.

(not the bullet)

:hi:

[annabanana]

2. It is no game.

It is the constant struggle to have some control over our own lives. It is the whole REASON this Country was founded. I remain a Daughter of the Revolution.

[abq e streeter]

3. Proud to be 1st rec ( or maybe not 1st?)----bugs the shit out of me too to see "pundits"

or even worse , alleged "journalists" who act like its all a big game, when in truth the consequences of the actions and decisions of these people are the difference between life and death for people all over the world.

[shadowknows69]

6. But not for them.

[abq e streeter]

7. exactly

[Stellabella]

4. Political decisions kill people. It's no game.

For instance, the asshole Pawlenty in my state is going to basically destroy the health insurance system for poor people in my state. Many more people will die because he's a cruel little asshole who would rather see people suffer than raise taxes on his rich friends.

[Jeep789]

9. It is a game for those at the top. Us,

we are just expendable pawns in the game.

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. It's a game to the rich, but the fallout hurts those underneath - to whom it is NOT a game.

[Norrin Radd]

11. kr

[grantcart]

12. For me I see politics from the point of view of a refugee camp, for them it is no game

[tavalon]

13. Nope, to me, it's deadly serious

[BuelahWitch]

14. Not to me personally, but I believe those involved see it as such

A big ass game of "King of the Hill" One side lets the other be king of the hill for awhile, then they switch. In public one side blasts the other, but then they attend the same cocktail parties, backslapping one another and telling jokes.
If it's not so why didn't the Democrats fight for Al Gore and John Kerry? "Ah well, we'll let George have another term, we'll shoot for 2008." They had nothing to lose if the Republicans stayed in power.

I think there are a few "good guys" out there who aren't part of the game. But they either aren't taken seriously (like Dennis Kucinich) or they're shut out (like Howard Dean). But not enough of them to transform the donkey.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. "History has tried to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians"

Mark Twain

[Jack_DeLeon]

16. All of life is a game...

its up to you to decide your own victory conditions.