Despite my atheistic beliefs, Thank God that the Presidential Elections are over. I’m sure most people are happy in the end regardless of who they voted for. Life is back to normal, and leading towards the hailstorm of shit trying to affect your mind/vote, there seemed to be an future-damning trend. Ads, specifically social ads are abundant and apparently working. The “Ignorance is bliss” (or being the unnecessary evil) logic proved itself as Presidential Candidates hid from some towns, grabber words thrown out like candy, and the business class bought everything.
Approximately $881.8 million raised in favor of Mitt Romney / SuperPACs
The thing that get’s me the most is people’s detachment from their supposed Christian morals. Peoples ignorance of Mitt Romney’s business organizations and the overwhelming support by business leaders and investors for him are a close second. In the end, facts were called lies and lies as facts. I’ve gone through political cartoons both in favor and against Barack Obama, the one thing that’s clear is the one’s that lean towards are a lot more truthful than the opposite. Cartoons from Investors.com/cartoons have a clear and obvious hatred towards Barack's supposedly socialist ways. The line between opinion and “fact” is definitely blurred as this particular cartoon which is supposed to be Part II of an on going list of lies that the President has said. One in particular says that, “Citizens United will allow foreign corporations to spend without limit in our elections” This of course was later agreed upon to be illegal along with coordinating directly with the candidate. {I need to find who decided this} However the ‘artist’ wanted that quote to look damning, the truth still exists that due to the nature of unlimited spending/donations to SuperPACs, fudging the books could easily allow a foreign income. So in Mr. Micahel Ramirez’s cartoon, opinion of course is applied as opinion as poli. cartoons are in the Op-Ed. section, but sold as factual truth. When it comes to other media, ‘Facts’ again is a word the must be in parentheses. Obama: The Movie, pushed by NEWSMAX a faux-news organization, scares people that the unrest in the Middle East is going to lead to a super-state that’s soul purpose is to destroy the US. Fear mongering is back full swing. All the while, Mitt is still possibly getting rich off of his ties with Bain as they move Sensata to China.
The apparent teachings of caring and moral wealth over material wealth by Christianity are completely ignored by people who are voting for a person that believes in a different book. And the history of Mitt Romney finances paints Mormonism as believers of material wealth as proof for God at the gates. Wives or Money, God wants to know you got rewarded on Earth.
The one thing that not only lets me know we still have a democracy but defines a competent candidate is tax info. How popular was the concept of tax info not released by Mitt this year? It seemed, according to how many older Republican leaning employees I work with, that Mitt was a terrific candidate that they’ve never heard of before and above all is great. It was this time (late September, 2012) that I came up with an idea…
My Idea was to listen to entire Rush Limbaugh sets for so many days until after Election Day.
Time and effort, coupled with the fact that after whoever won, those blogs wouldn’t matter anymore. But seeing as this would be a great research project as well as a glimpse into the Limbaugh way of thinking, I will listen to all the radio shows Rush has done for half of October to November 6th. Expect the first of a series soon. The question remains whether I am going to have migraines for the whole time or not?
And that’s it for a Sunday blogging session…
Something I haven’t done in a while. A long while.
And don’t get me started on how ‘scammy’ the internet is getting. That will be for another blog.
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