Buy Cable TV, Get a Free Gun: Welcome to the New America

[Playinghardball]

Source: Smirking Chimp
by Don Monkerud

Guns in churches, schools and bars. Immigrants expelled to solve financial problems. Morality praised as the key national issue.

American politics are getting more bizarre and in some cases, borders on the nutty. Current politics include Republican legislatures in Texas, Arizona, Georgia and Minnesota fighting for their "rights" to reject energy efficiency light bulbs, while South Carolina will manufacture their own state's rights incandescent bulbs.

Alaska wants to eliminate Federal protection of salmon, polar bears, seals and wolves in favor of "state sovereignty." Dozens of states pledge to roll back "Obamacare," and protect their citizens' right to high-priced monopoly healthcare. A GOP legislator in New Hampshire recommends sending the disabled and homeless to Siberia where it's cheaper to live.

Americans have always relished smears, scandals, and partisan struggles that appeal to the lowest common denominator. A fierce national anti-intellectualism, fear of losing social position, and an economy run into the ditch by greedy bankers are driving the public to look for answers. The Tea Party and their Republican sycophants used this by making the Federal government the enemy to win recent elections: They are having a field day.

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[NightWatcher]

1. cool, then you can shoot your tv when there's nothing on.

[RKP5637]

2. These are all like SNL skits! It would be hilarious if these damn fools hadn't been

elected into office.

[Hangingon]

3. Better than a toaster.

[Maine_Nurse]

4. I'd take the gun. And get rid of the sometimes useless lightbulbs.