To Supersoulty and John Ford

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

This is utterly ridiculous.

The fights for the hearts, minds, and culture of America will not happen in Washington.  It will happen in on our TV shows, our movies, our workplaces, churches, and schools.  Those are the fronts of this war.  The Republicans and Democrats do not shape what America is or has been.  They merely react.

The fact of the matter is, we are becoming more lazy, more dishonest, less willing to fight and stand up for what's right, more lascivious, more nihilistic, more faithless, and more indifferent.  This has nothing to do with the Democrats, and is nothing that the Republicans can fix.  To their credit, the Democrats have actually resisted the erosion of our country - just less so than the Republicans have.

We are going to have a socialist welfare state - because people are so lazy that they want to screw off and have their lifestyle guaranteed.  We are going to have a smaller and less effective millitary - because people no longer are willing to fight.  We are going to abandon the world to the whims of evil men, because we are indifferent to the plight of others.  We are going to have media that caters to the worst common denominator of voyeurism, titillation, and smut, because we no longer have the will to fight the darkness in our own souls.  We are going to reduce this country's social institutions to completely meaningless and transient relationships, because we no longer value being faithful to one another.

Whether we elect Bush or Kerry will have no bearing on this.  What Washington does is a symptom, not the problem.  If you want to stop this, you must enact change in those around you.  Morality trickles up, not down.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

[BUSH]: Tribal sovereignty means that, it's sovereign. You're a -- you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And, therefore, the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities.

It makes me sad that I have to choose between a man with no brains, and one with no moral backbone.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

In my estimation America's destruction is more likely to come about as a result of the constantly increasing move toward socialism. It could do for us what it did for the USSR; oppression, death, poverty and destruction!

Americans like freedom too much to ever let it get that bad.  It may lead to crushing taxes and economic inefficiency, but Western Europe's been that way for decades, and they're still surviving.

Of course, thousands of elderly died in the French heatwaves of 2003, thanks to their horrible inefficiency brought about by extreme socialism, so I'm not saying such an America would be all that fantastic, but we're not going to be sending wealthy business executives to the work camps in Alaska, either.