Brainwashing pisses me off...whether its democratic, republican or socialist...

I am the first to admit that I don't have the answers to, well, anything. I do not claim exasperated hours researching and creatively finding solutions to the country's (or worlds) problems. However I do have a brain. And with that brain I hope that I can shed some light to those who are ignorant, or have been persuaded to trust bullshit lines from con artists.

I am a registered voter, a democrat so it says on my nice little card hidden in one of the folds of my wallet. The thing is, I don't always agree with that party. True, I am a social liberal, I think everyone should have equality (plug for gay rights), a womans right to her body (go figure!) and the rights or immigrants to enter the country to work and raise their child in a country where some sort of education is some what possible. Personally I wouldn't choose America to teach my kid, but that big pond to Europe is a bit too far and its easier to jump a fence.

Back to the topic...

Lets take something that is huge here in Florida, or was for a while. A few years back the state decided to put on paper a plan to create a bullet train to help alleviate a number of concerns ranging from environmental to traffic congestion. I will first list the reasons why I at first thought this was a great idea. It would help tourism, people come to Florida for Miami and Disney. So when you can fly into MIA, vacation a bit on South Beach and then take a 2 and a half hour (the amount of time estimated to travel) train ride to get to Disney and visit Mickey with your kids, it sounds like a good method to invite northern tourists to Florida, spend their money on tourist stuff rather than gas and a rental car to get from A to B. This way they don't have to limit their trip this time to save money and they get to experience the entire state! Great idea! Also, there is the working force; I live in Tampa, and I know people take I-4 to Lakeland and Orlando for work every day! A bullet train would make their commute easier, less dangerous (crashes!! I mean you can text in a train, but not in your car!) and I thought (as figures projected at the time) cheaper! Another bonus for the idea!

Then a few things happened between roughly 2001 and 2011. The country went into recession, the state had some crappy governors, a few natural disasters and costs were higher than expected ten years ago which was probably due to the recession but I don't want to speculate that was the only issue. The new Governor Rick Scott, recently essentially vetoed the idea, and at the same time rejected lots of money from the feds that would have HELPED pay the costs to build the train. When I tell democrats that I felt this was a good move of Scotty's part (not how he did it but what he did! There is a difference) they call me republican and think I love the bald headed Lex Luther cut out! I want to profess, this guy is a dick, a fraud, a criminal and he bought himself an election based on ignorance, the same kind of ignorance I wish I could correct. Now I will tell you why I agreed with this asshole...

It is 2011, the couple of billion dollars provided by the Feds would have only covered a fraction of the building costs, none of the maintenance and wouldn't subsidize the costs. Not only that but the plan was structured to build the train in stages. Now, stages are a great idea! Only problem is we are in a recession and stages would make current costs to build the thing, and later to ride it, artificially inflated! Meaning, it would cost too much to do right now! Not that it shouldn't be done ever but not right now. But mu democrat friends, whom I great respect, admire and even at time revere, didn't hearing facts like round trips were projected (recently) to cost 60 bucks, and the first phase was going to take about 2-4 years to finish and would only go from Tampa to Orlando...for 60! thats more than it would cost to drive, granted about 30 minutes faster, but not something that many people here could do at that price! Don't take my word for it, do some digging! Yet the democrats have the people completely brainwashed into thinking this was a god thing to do right now. Wat I was asking for was, let us take that money the feds were offering and help out the public transit already in existence here in Florida, which sucks! Alas, a good idea always falls on deaf ears that just hear what they don't want to believe in just to hold on to their anger about something the wanted instead of something they needed!

Bullet train idea, please don't die, just come back after the recession!

This is just one of the many things I find that my logical deduction of the situation has put me at odds with my “brethren.” Then there are the fuckers who this Rush Limbaugh is a demigod here to save the world from abortionists and progressive equality people! They forget that he is addicted to prescription drugs, openly makes questionably bigoted statements and re-enacments of paralyzed, insulted American troops because they had a mind of their own (but still followed orders as their commission demanded) and not unlike others in media, twists facts regularly to suit his own points yet presents these ideas as factual statements. I am not one for condemning a man for one transgression, or even two...but there is a point where I just look at a person and ask myself “how immoral is this ass?”

Yet people revere him and other like Beck and that ilk. Not only that but fact checking and correcting these pricks seems to have no impact on their followers. This kind of brainwashing pisses me off just as much as democratic brainwashing. I an biased, I admit, I want freedom, peace and equality. I want the government to help those who need it, the rich to contribute more proportionally to the government to aid these programs to help the poor, I want wars to be the absolute last resort and not something that America is known for.

Fuck, I must be a brainwashed fool to think that people could see reason, have patience and be kind and just to each other. Ok, time to return you to your normally broad casted life, continue to think that the president isn't american, continue to think that the bible is gods written word and please feel free to think that global warming isn't something we should try to avoid, whether or not it is actually happening or not. All in all proceed to have your intellect erased and your thinking patterns assimilated.