**Sniff sniff**
Anybody else smell that? You know… the big shit on the constitution that Barack Obama took last week when saying he wanted to expand the Office of Faith Based Initiatives? You know the SAME OFFICE that is unconstitutional, but somehow managed to get an office in the fucking White House? Yeah it’s illegal. Yeah, it’s bullshit. Government giving money to religion is against the first amendment. Period. End of Story. Don’t try to justify it.
Religion and politics don’t mix unless your goal is to completely trade in the integrity of the Constitution. Not to mention the fact that this religious pandering, while done very specific and strategically, has caused Obama to trade in his own integrity to better position an election win. Eh… bumps in the road to victory right?
Now history has shown that politicians can be very machiavellian when it comes to religious beliefs just like the upper class, nobility, and statesmen of centuries past have been. Just like our Founding Fathers were. Obama, just like Bush, Jr., may be a very sincere religious man. And in being that he also believes in spreading the idealic Christian moral example through “good works”. After all Faith without Works is dead, the Bible says. The problem is that not everyone in this country is Christian, or religious at all. Not to mention that all of this is typical sly tactics religion has been using for centuries in order to get people to convert anyway. It’s scary shit to think that our government is participating in this. That Obama wants to expand it!
So that’s it! I’m done with Barack Obama. I’m over it. In a way I’m kind of disappointed in myself for getting caught up in the hype. I mean my cynical nature prevented me from being completely in bed with the guy, but it didn’t stop me from slowly shuffling toward that first bedpost. But now the veil has been lifted, and the bullshit is flowing faster than the floodwaters in the midwest.
All this pandering, flip-flopping, moving toward the center bugs the shit out of me even more. It’s like the volume was just cranked from 3 to 300. I get it, it’s just part of the game. The media made Obama into this golden child, he’s always been a very pragmatic politician. He’s always been a very religious guy. I get it. I get that we have a very deep rooted systemic problem in our government that gets more and more malignant every election cycle. I get it.
And with everyone being an armchair pundit (including yours truly at times) someone always has “the answer”. Where does this answer come from? Some from actual life experience, but I would argue the majority is usually bogarted from other sources by people that don’t want to actually have an opinion. They want others to tell them what to do and how to think. They get it from some politician, political party, maybe a journalist or blogger with strong opinions, maybe some leaflet in the bathroom at Union Station seemingly based on facts. All of this makes me realize how brainwashed our country actually is. They want us to keep ourselves occupied with all this other shit, while they pull the strings, and some religious nut on a crusade to save humanity gets elected.
But all of it’s a game. A horserace. And God do they love it.
But so do you… well some of you. ;]
