Killing the Poor over there and Ignoring the Poor over here

[mopaul]

our national guard is being used to KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE in a land far away, while they are really, desperately needed in three states blasted by a hurricane here at home.

same planet, different worlds.

history will definitely remember george dubya bush and his obscene tenure as our 'leader'.

[YellerdawgFlorida]

1. I shake my head

I went to sleep in early November 2000, and woke up the next day in bizarro world.

[bballny]

2. He wi il assuredly

go down as our wost president ever. This is just what will get his crow for the rest of his pathetic life. A Little man in a giant job.

[China_cat]

3. The only reason they aren't killing the poor over here

is that they haven't sufficiently cowed the rest of the population. Yet.

Don't think they wouldn't like to. Katrina was just made for them to enjoy.

[BlueEyedSon]

4. Looks like were killing 'em here too, no?

[necso]

5. "Kill the Poor."

(Dead Kennedys)

"The sun beams down on a brand new day
No more welfare tax to pay
Unsightly slums gone up in splashing tide
Jobless millions whisked away
At last we have more room to play
All systems go to kill the poor tonight"

"Kill, kill, kill, kill the poor -- tonight."

(Blame the Dead Kennedys.)

The neocons are firm believers in "the-hand-of-the-divine" social darwinism* and paleo-eugenics*. (Many of them try to disguise this, but others do not -- or they let slip from time to time.)

The neocons are also idiots, who never have more than an oil-sheen thickness of "understanding" of anything -- where they have any "understanding" at all.

But man, can they lie, spin and stick to the party-line, in the face of any (and all) contradictory evidence.

It's a cultural mental illness, a social psychosis -- rather like Nazism.

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"the-hand-of-the-divine" social darwinism*: The belief that god rewards the "fit" (the "saved", the "elect", or whatever) by granting them that character (greedy, grasping, selfish, unfeeling, proud, intolerant, domineering, etc) that leads to wealth and power and that makes them immune to compassion or doubt -- or anything else that might hamper their pursuit of wealth and power.

Oh, and there are other, "fitness-related" ("the-hand-of-the-divine") social darwinist beliefs. These include: that those who are lacking in these "godly" traits, (greedy, grasping, etc), or who otherwise fall short of achieving worldly success, are "unfit" (etc); that the "unfit" can be dealt with as inferiors (subhumans even) by the "fit"; and that all this is in accordance with the will of god (and even done by his hand).

(Subtract out the "god" references and this definition also bounds "secular" social darwinism.)

paleo-eugenics*: The belief that certain individuals (or races, classes, etc) have (inheritable) traits that inherently make these individuals (etc) superior to others. This is normally accompanied by various beliefs about how these "desirable traits" (read: "their traits") should be propagated -- and other traits (read: "traits of those they don't like") suppressed.