Zizek on Just about Everything but Mainly the Economy

What Happened To These Guys?

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those that hunger and are not fed; those who are cold and not clothed."

-President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was a Republican, a Republican who was against the military industrial complex. A Republican who was for social security, for unemployment benefits, and for labor laws. And he believed that anyone who would actually try to eliminate these programs was "stupid."

This man would clearly never win the Republican nomination these days. I imagine if he were around to see people like Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann get elected, he would have nothing to do with a Republican Party that shifted so dramatically to the authoritarian right. It has become a party that I doubt even Richard Nixon (scandal aside) could get elected in.

I fear for the discourse in this country, when a health care bill that was proposed by Republicans in the mid-90's, would be slammed as an evil, socialist, "government takeover" of the health care industry by the very politicians that proposed it, only 12 years later. It just proves to me that these jack-asses that Americans Corporate Interests elect year after year care nothing about actually improving this country, only about beating the other guy, and winning the next election.

For the sake of our country, can we please wake the hell up?

So We're A Christian Nation?

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we’ve got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it."

Why is it that so often it seems to only be the satirists of a society that are able to honestly tell the truth?

An Open Letter To Sarah Palin

Dear Sarah Palin,

I just watched your video. It is so unbelievably disingenuous, and continues your arrogant "How-can-I-ever-be-wrong-I-am-a-republican-and-say-Jesus-a-lot?" attitude, that it literally made me nauseous. If you want to be famous, go to Hollywood, but stay the hell out of politics, where all you do is create a trail of pain and ignorance in your wake. "Blood libel?" Do you even know what that term means? Are you even aware of the connotation it has in the Jewish community? Are you even aware that Congresswoman Giffords is Jewish? I suspect that you don't.

And no, it isn't your fault that this shooting happened. But for the love of God, don't make excuses for that ad you put out. How about a quiet apology to the Giffords family (since, you know, you did put a gun sight over her district), and a pledge to at least try to refrain from such violent imagery in the future? That would be classy, that would allow you to keep a shred of dignity. But I suspect that you won't, and then hopefully you'll piss off enough people that you'll finally fade into political obscurity where you belong.

Sincerely,

Me