[Preechr]

I would like to take a moment to address the concept of "ruling through fear." When the Republicans do it (They're gonna raise your taxes until you DIE, then tax you for THAT, too! ) the Democrats go nuts and point their fingers in horror, but when the Democrats do it (They're gonna STEAL your Social Security, Grandma! ) the Republicans have essentially the same reaction.

The problem is not that they attempt to influence the public through fear tactics, its that they can. The problem is that it works with most of us, and by us I, of course, mean other people. All progressive government is based in fear and pessimism, and both parties are essentially the same kind of progressive... Republicans throw a Bible in there, but the net effect and the "philosophical" foundations of both parties are nearly identical.

Both parties are out to liimit the freedoms of as many people as possible, and the easiest way to do that is play against someone's fear of someone else. Democrats know many of us are scared of the rich, the environment, corporations and theocrats, while the Republicans are banking on the idea that more of us are scared of the queers, the drugheads, brown people and hippies. Elections will soon be reduced down to a winner-take-all steel cage match featuring a giant, cross-shaped smokestack spewing soot-stained interest bearing bonds at a mutated G8 protester fag trying to blow pot smoke at it.

...while being a black guy.

...and sucking a dick.

What really gets me is modern day tactic of using the moral precepts of your enemy to attack it. Democrats raise hell at the existence of gays in the Republican Party, while Republicans attack Democrats for flying to Global Warming Protests in private jets. All attack ads focus on hipocrisy, and all claims of hipocrisy rely on the accused's adherence to their moral code. Anyone that claims hipocrisy to be the most vile of all sins has no moral code of their own.