So now I support illegal immigration?

Okay people, let's get a couple things straight. Just because someone opposes the Arizona immigration law doesn't mean they support illegal immigration. That's stupid, to say the least. What's being lost in the conversation here are the Hispanic people in Arizona that are going to be constantly asked for the ID now, and not just a drivers license. If this was happening to primarily white people, well, it just wouldn't be happening. We pick out Hispanics and Arabs because they're 'other' and easy to point out and focus on. It's easy, and it's lazy. That's what we've come to.

The other thing to remember is that like it or not, immigration is part of foreign policy and the Constitution is crystal clear on the fact that the federal government alone is responsible for foreign policy. This is not opinion. This is a literal reading of the words written in the Constitution. Literalist, textualist, consitutionalist, it's all right there.

The last thing to consider is that Arizona already has sufficient laws on the books to enforce immigration on the state level. If employers were sufficiently afraid of hiring illegals, no illegals would go to Arizona. No job, no illegals. It's that simple. Period. But instead of putting resources into enforcing these existing laws they decided to pass at best a Constitutionally suspect law trying to enforce federal authority they have no authority to enforce. Do you know what they will do with illegals after the new law kicks in? The exact same thing they do now, turn them over to federal immigration authorities. Nothing changes, except the fact that Latino looking people will now be targeted for suspicion on the basis of their ethnicity alone.

This will happen, it's only a matter of how often. It can't be avoided, there will be racial profiling. If someone is white, they won't get asked for the same ID that Latino looking people will. That is based purely on race, people. And what you're saying by supporting this law is that you've decided that it's okay for some people to have their civil rights abused to give you some level of satisfaction. Just as long as it's not your rights being abused.

But then, considering that a majority of people support torture, let alone the fact that the vast majority of us supported our country in its time of need by going shopping and seeing a movie, I can't say that I'm surprised that people now support infringing other people rights and liberties to vaguely "protect" their own.

One last word on fences; they don't just keep people out.

Fear is the new southern strategy

They can't be bigots out in the open anymore, so they try to hide it behind the law. That's why they want their names kept secret, they know they're bigots.

It's going to get worse, far, far worse, before it even starts to get better. And it comes as no surprise to me when America sighed a collective *whew* when Bush told us we needn't serve our country in a time of war, we only needed to spend the tax cut money he was paying us to not fight the war.

Tax cuts during war time!

Jesus Lord Christ but we suck mightily. We have failed on so many levels as a people.

Also, just to toss it out there, Clarence Thomas is a piece of fucking shit. There's simply no nice way to say it. He'll help ruin this country.

To say the second civil war is coming is almost trite today, but it is. Maybe not in my lifetime, as we're going to have to fall so much further than we have to get to the boiling point. It'll be preceded by a 'revolution' form the right, when they come for your guns. And make no mistake, when they come for your guns, they'll be coming from the right. It's the only side with the moral self righteousness to actually try and pull it off. But that will be the spark, and from there it'll be effectively civil war, and in the end, American will emerge far more to the left than we are now.

That's the funny part in all this, and there are a lot of funny parts, is that the right, or fragments of it, are going to be the very ones to push the country over the edge into the socialist abyss they claim to fear so much, even when they willfully stay ignorant of what it is they actually are afraid of.

Hyperbole rules the media, outrage sells, shock value is no longer shocking; it's the norm. It's all over the top, all the time, all emotional, all self righteous causes. Bush wasn't just bad, he was Hitler. Obama isn't just wrong, he's Hitler. How that works out is only explained by the fact that Hitler and the Nazi's are about the only ones we can rag on anymore, because it's certainly impossible otherwise, and in fact are both grossly wrong. Not just wrong, but grossly wrong. As wrong, and just plain stupid, as it is for people to simultaneous claim Obama is a Nazi, a communist and a socialist all at the same time. As wrong as Glenn Beck's Holy Crusade to forever tie progressives with socialism, when in fact the founding fathers themselves were progressives at heart, so there the Federalist Papers they masturbate to, and all just a little bit socialist in their own way.

What's also funny, is that original socialism should fit the modern rights ideals to a tee. It was based on individual merit and the amount you contributed to society. What's even funnier than that, is that no one on the mainstream and fringe right even seems to know that fact.

We continue to use labels that have lost all context in their modern abuse and misuse. Racism for example no longer carries any weight, it's abused and misused so often. Most people are simple bigots, not racists, but no one even knows that racism is based on the genetic superiority or inferiority of the races, not some political ideal. Not even conservative or liberal means what they used to, not even what they meant 30 years ago under Reagan. Conservatives under Reagan were fiscal cons, evangelicals are not fiscally conservative, as they proved so disastrously under Bush. Liberals are also not what they were 30 years ago. Some of the red lipped here might choke on it, but liberals are actually more moderate than they were 30 years ago, even with the so called health care reform, which was barely reform, and cemented a for profit health care system into law. A socialist health care system would be government owned hospitals with government employed staff and nothing else. That would be socialist, you inane twits.

Anyway, excuse my early morning rant, I just got off work, I'm wound up anyway, and reading about Clarence fucking Thomas always pisses me off.

Obama failes to call down wrath of the heavans.

I certainly couldn't imagine it before his election, but I'm glad I didn't vote for him and that I didn't really support him even in the primaries. That way I'm not so bitter over his failure to live up to my unrealistic and unwarranted expectations of him.

Give people a little hope and they get all stupid with it. This is why our politicians are such cynical bastards today, they give people hope then they have expectations, and the more general the hope the higher and more unrealistic the expectations are. And when reality sets in, reality that never should have been over looked in the first place but Gosh it's just so much fun making history I can pretend anything is possible and what the hell I want a pony too!

Obama caused his own problems though when he started believing his hype and broke the promise he made after his 2004 convention speech when he said he wouldn't run in 2008. He should have waited, he could have been Hilary's VP, could have snagged the White House for decade and a half. But instead he goes in as the perfect blank slate candidate, where everyone can paint him any color they want, pun intended, and no one can prove them right or wrong. It was perfect, since we already had hollow patriotism that cost nothing but vague platitudes towards the 1% of the population doing all our dirty work for us so we have more time to puff our chests and wear the flag like a BBQ bib. Pigs at the trough one and all.

Two active, stalled wars. Worst financial crises in 80 years, second worst in our entire history as a nation. Massive tensions around the world with North Korea and the Middle East. Constant terrorist threats against the country. A nation more divided than in the last 150 years, not since the Civil War tore us apart. A political Balkanization fracturing the very basis of our representative democracy.

And By God he failed to fix it all, worst president in history according to many, after less than two years of constant obstruction from the right, constant chaos from the left, and there's Obama, stuck in the middle with me, clowns to the left and the right of us.

He gave a good speech. He called us to action. And we jumped right in, criticizing him from all sides.

A people don't get the government they deserve, they get the government they allow. You want to blame someone, look in the mirror. I have.