Do you blame people who have fallen for insidious and incessant lying propaganda?

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15. Yes, I do blame "them"

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I appreciate the point you are making about the ubiquitous insidiousness of reality-denying right-wing propaganda.

Nevertheless--yes, I do blame the willfully ignorant, the criminally insane and the appallingly stupid.

It's the first group especially that enrages me. It isn't that hard to get your head out of your own ass and educate yourself on any number of issues foreign and domestic. There are great sites like this one, plus Salon.com, Huffington Post, The Young Turks, et. al. Progressive television and radio options are out there. Information-packed, well-reviewed books exist, covering a wide range of issues explored in exhaustive, well-researched depth by divers writers.

But you have to fucking care. You have to read. Daily! You have to have enough intelligence, intellectual curiosity and moral stamina to go to these sites (and others) to educate yourself. To pay attention. You know, between the porn and the LOL! kitty videos and the daily cinder-block-to-the-head deluge of celebrity gossip.

It's the MENTALITY of this first group that fills me with contempt. You don't have to be an Oxford-educated historian to realize that conservatives have been on the wrong side of every social issue reaching back to the dawn of history. You don't have to be a Nobel-prize-winning scientist to realize that we are absolutely decimating this planet and that future generations--unless something changes drastically--will be numbered in the single digits.

Yeah, I blame these guffawing, bible-clutching jackasses. (I refer to the Evangelical, "inerrant word of God" zealots.) I blame the neo-nazi, neo-Confederate, neo-fucking-Ted Nugent/Chuck Norris wanna-be's who giggle at every vicious, hate-mongering morsel of madness that flies, spittle-flecked and glistening, out of their hero's mouths before rolling cameras and stage lights.

And if I had the power I'd wish this entire group of lunatics "into the cornfield" yesterday! (Twilight Zone reference)

Because here's the dealio: There is no time left. None.

The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico widens, Tepco's Fukushima "little-engine-that-could" (destroy the Earth) keeps pumping millions of barrels of radioactive waste directly into the Pacific Ocean and the polar ice caps melt as global mean temperature rises. Please note that I haven't even mentioned yet how the quality of life in America has become an absolute shit-sandwich for those without a living wage, decent benefits and medical insurance.

You get it? Of course you do. You do.

The rest of these fuckers?!

They will bring an end to the human experiment cosmos so recently ran. Because there are more--far, far more--of "them" than there are of "us".

And it looks like the stupid and the evil will prevail, from my tottering perch ring-side here in 2013.