Taking Sides is Stupid

Taking sides is stupid.  For example. . . .

I disagree with Republican--Conservative--values, thinking, policy.  Their belief in the value and goodness of greed, their championing of a class society, their classist prejudices are abhorrent to me.  They are anti-social, cruel, and stupid.

But Democrats are so blatantly dishonest, so false to their proclaimed values, such vicious warriors, such liars that I can't support them. 

I think that, since 1952, I should rather support--as the lesser of two evils--the Republicans.

Look at what Harry Truman gave us:  Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  True, he also defended South Korea.  But it was Ike who stopped MacArthur, and Ike who warned us against the "military-industrial complex."

Kennedy gave us the Bay of Pigs--and Vietnam.  Johnson gave us the lies about Tonkin Bay.

Nixon--s Republican--gave us Watergate, and the Kent State Murders,  He was mean, though--except when under the influence of Henry Kissinger--simply mean and venal.

Reagan and the Bushe:  nothing decent there.  But then they couldn't have promised to be decent if they had tried.  A stupid B-grade movie star, a lying CIA director and vicious war-monger, and his stupid son.  (One of the pluses for the USA is that the people didn't elect the second Bush.)

Bill Clinton?  A remarkably bright man, with not a single principle in his head,. He could have made a great academic!

And now Obama.  Another supposedly "bright" man--but without honor, without principle, without backbone.  His administration can't tell the truth about anything, and he is himself a split-tongued   liar--about Guantanamo, and maybe about Libya.

If I ever planned to vote again in the United States, I would vote no.  And I would personally give the little wealth I have to support the re-activation of Nuremberg, to try war criminals.  It has been restored. . . .

                                                                    Bert Hornback