The Civilized States of America
and Jesusland
The Civilized States of America
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by Martin Willett |
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What an opportunity.What a bloody waste.Bush says he has earned political capital and he intends to spend it. Well that's not what happened with 9/11. He didn't earn it and it's all spent now, and then some. Dubya seems to be very good at spending more than he's raised. There was the ideal opportunity to build a consensus to rid the world of terrorism through a uniting of all or at least the vast majority of nations on the planet against terrorism. He blew it. The invasion of Iraq without an international consensus destroyed all the good work his father did in building an Anti-Saddam coalition and it threw away all the goodwill that America had picked up without effort due to the terrorist attacks of September 2001. George W Bush is presiding over a lurch to the right and a lurch backward several centuries to a reactionary theocracy. America under Bush and the Christian Reich can have no friends, only vassals or grudging allies. Such a country does not command respect, it simply demands it, a bully nation throwing its weight around not because it is right and the world knows it but simply because it can. The South Has Risen Again Jesusland: The Confederacy is Born AgainThere are two Americas.The rest of the world has no doubt about which one they prefer. The America we love is tolerant, outward-looking, progressive, liberal and civilized. Oh yeah, and smart too...
The figures may have been massaged a tad (OK I admit it, they're faked) but anybody who knows anything about America knows that this characterization is a reasonable approximation of the truth. The states that voted for Bush are those where you would expect poor white trash to live. Bush's America is the land of lynching and roadkill suppers rather than the land of innovation, technology and creativity. Bush's America is the America of religiosity not generosity. The land of capital punishment not capital investment. Bush's America is the land where most people only travel abroad because their unit gets posted. Bush's America is a land of SOBs in SUVs. Bush's America is the land where people extol the virues of marriage and get divorced twice as readily as the liberal New Englanders. Bush's America is the land where blacks are far more likely to end up in the electric chair than a professor's chair, more likely to end up in jail rather than college. Bush's America is the land where ignorance and faith are more important and more highly regarded than knowledge and science. JesuslandJesusland is narrow-minded, bigoted, obnoxious, reactionary, xenophobic, profoundly and proudly ignorant and full of hate. The Civilized States of America were settled by Episcopalians, Catholics, Lutherans, Puritans, Methodists and Jews. Jesusland was settled by the fanatic Protestant descendants of the Scots who were kicked out to Ireland because they were too uncivilized, uncouth and dangerous to share the same landmass as the English. The religion of the South, of Jesusland, is the religion of those who feel saved because they declare themselves to be saved and superior. It is a religion of bigotry and exclusion that generates a culture of bigotry and exclusion, a culture that values faith above science. Jesusland is the land that for the first time in the history of human thought made the word liberal an insult. If Jesusland fell into the sea nobody outside would care. If Jesusland was on fire we wouldn't bother to piss on it. Osama Bin Laden flew planes into buildings in the Civilized States of America, he probably knew nobody outside America would have bothered so much if they had crashed in Houston or Atlanta. Jesusland doesn't care for the rest of the world. The feeling's mutual.
“The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”H.L. Mencken
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Jesusland is not the only name for the sorry states of America. It's also known as Dumbfuckistan.Would you be happy to live in a theocratic state that puts faith and religious observance before knowledge, education and science? Americans: you have my sympathy.
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