The great American psyche out

As an American and an Arizonan, a trend I find disturbing is the psychological conditioning that appears to be emanating from Republicans in this election cycle.

Let’s look at the facts.  People are not happy with their leadership.  The last 8 years have been crap, and we’ve grown accustomed to it.  The odd thing is, recently Republicans have stopped denying it.  Now that elections are at stake, they are agreeing that the last 8 years are bad.

Despite nonstop rhetoric to the contrary for the last 8 years.  Despite years of resistance, and claims of “Liberal media bias” they have finally seen the light.  Or have they?  More on that later but let’s look at the start of the change…

And so it happened.  Sometime in the last month or so McCain has flip flopped from “everything’s fine” to “I’m Mr. McChange.”

Wait, change?  McCain?  I thought everything was fine?  I thought Obama was an uninformed alarmist?  I thought Obama was the Obamessiah? Now you’re saying you want change?  Well as much as I want to endlessly rant about your breath taking “flip-flop” at the final stretch of the election, I’m at least a little uplifted that Republicans are interested in change.  I guess as Democrats one of our faults is that we are too fair to our opponents.

But I spoke to soon.  It’s a farce.  McCain keeps saying “Americans can’t stand their congress.”

Wait, wait, wait, wait.  Hold up.  “Congress?”  Who said anything about congress? What what what?  Are you really expecting to slip into our brains like a computer hacker, and replace the object of our discontent with another?  No, no, no Mr. McCain, that is not going to work.   I/we never said congress was our problem.  It’s the whole “Bush / Cheney” thing.  remember?  Remember the whole “with us or against us?”  “WMDs”, that whole “fall in line with your President or you’re a turrist/terrorist/whatever”?  Remember all that?  We surely have not forgotten.  Congress?  Who?  I doubt 95% of the people on the street can name a single member of congress (any member of congress!)  And you’re trying to tell them that they “hate congress”?

I beg to differ.  George Bush is a household name.  And for good reason.  The discontent is directed squarely at his administration.  This whole “congress” bait and switch is completely artificial and not supported by or endorsed by reality.  Yet right now there are numerous Republican politicians talking nonstop about how America “can’t stand congress.”

Who the hell said that?  Bush is the leader they/we/I cannot stand.  Do you really think that people are dumb enough to fall for this “switcharoo” of grievances?  Not only are you attempting (poorly I might add) to ripoff Obama’s change campaign, but you are attempting to convince America that they really “hate congress.”  It’s no coincidence that Democrats have a slim lead in congress, and that they are the target of McCain’s bait and switch.  Even though they have been in a virtual war with the man who really has taken problem causing to a new level.

Every Republican is doing this.  All the Republican talk shows too.  “America is tired of our congress.”  Who the hell said that?  It’s as if they all got together and said “we are going to change reality by repeating something until it becomes true.”  It’s psychological conditioning, and they are all hoping it will work.  What about Dubya?  Buck Fush?  No more years?  Four more wars?  WMDs?  The war on “turr”?  How can they possibly deny the reality of the last 8 years?  Congress (the one they want to blame) has only been in office since January of 2007.  Surely, and I mean, surely they are not suggesting that people were “content” before 2007 and everything has fallen apart in the last 1 year and a half?

Do they think Americans are that dumb?

I think you missed the point McCain.  We don’t want to “change.. congress.”  We want Republicans out of the White House. That is the only correct interpretation of change, anything else is more of the same.

PS

Even the current congress has a shaky lead if any.  Democrats control the house, but in the Senate, it’s an undeniable tie.  The tie breaker is the “Independent” named Joseph Lieberman.  The pro-Iraq, “bomb Iran” freakshow that is working on McCain’s campaign, while calling himself an independent.  And yet we hate this congress because it’s a “Democrat congress.“