The Duopoly or why I hate the Republicans and Democrats

The Republicans talk in racist code designed to bring out the very worst in people. For example, instead of saying that they think that homosexuality is wrong or immoral, they instead give more code talk about "family values" while up on the podium is Dick Cheney and his lesbian daughter. I would disown a gay child, kick them out of the house, cut them off without a cent, not invite them to family gatherings, leave them out of the will, and never talk to them again. I would not, however, put them in death camps like Hitler (the poster child of the right wing) did. That's not tough love. That's murder. Perhaps, that is what separates me from them. Perhaps. Or perhaps, I just don't like people (Republicans) who won't say what's on their mind and eliminating enemies by violence is what's on their mind. You need look no farther than tough police policies in this country and tough military policies in dealing with other countries if you need convincing.

The Democrats, on the other hand, have no backbone. It is a recent phenomenon as such things go. Democrats lost their backbone around the time of Nixon but became outright jellyfish and invertebrates with the nomination of Kerry. The man, a war hero with multiple decorations, just refused to fight back no matter what the Bush camp said about him. I remember hearing a lifelong Democrat tell me that she was going to vote for Bush because she heard a rumor that we the taxpayers would have to pay for Kerry's mansions and that we should not "change horses in the middle of a stream." I swear that I am not making this up. She actually said that. I investigated the rumor as best I could. Never mind that it is par for the course for the US Secret Service to build security gates at the entrances to the property of a sitting president. What gets me is the total gullibility of a woman who is a property owner, a landlady, a respected pillar of her community, and her church's treasurer. As for changing horses, I would fire any general and any commander in chief and any president who was an idiot--especially in the middle of a shooting war (Iraq and Afghanistan).

Elections turn on such stupid little things. So when I hear some of the rumors flying around this election . . . . Let's put it this way. If real estate developers were terraforming other worlds and if space travel were cheaper and safer than air travel, I'd be off this planet so fast it would make your head spin. I honestly don't think the human race is a viable enterprise. Should we discover intelligent civilizations elsewhere in the universe, I would go to their embassy and apply for citizenship. On Earth, we actually have extremist heads of Islamic states (who deny the Holocaust ever happened while planning the next one) trying to get nuclear weapons. We have avoided a nuclear holocaust or a biological war so far but that luck can't last forever. The radwaste produced by fission necessitates a police state or garrison state lest MUF (material unaccounted for) finds its way into dirty bombs which would make entire cities uninhabitable for decades if not centuries. If the material in question is plutonium, then say goodbye to the human race.

Then there is sucking in carcinogenic chemicals with every breath.

If you think getting the hell off this planet is something only considered by one or two people, then think again. There are thousands of people who do more than talk. They are saving their money to move to Mars. The only thing holding them back is availability of passage and habitat there. That is admittedly a big obstacle but a financial opportunity for real estate developers and the space industry.

As for quitting the human race and living with aliens, there are lots of New Agers who will bend your ear talking about "space brothers." Yeah right. Alien abductions and rectal probes. No thank you. I can go to the doctor if I need implants or my money removed. I'm sure though that if extraterrestrials exist, then there must be more than one species and I'll find one that is less totalitarian than the Republicans and Democrats and less anal than life down here in this Sodom and Gomorrah we call Earth.

Too much code talk? I'll speak plainly. I want to get away from war, pollution, overpopulation, gays, the abortion debate, school prayer, flags, superpatriots, the Patriot Act, crime, Islam, conservatives and other racists, bigots masquerading as Christians (the religious right), illegal immigrants, Nazis, communists, Republicans, and Democrats.

For the sake of discussion let's imagine that there is as much diversity (perhaps far more) out there as there is down here. Here is a list of people that I could not only coexist with; I'd even prefer their presence:

• Pacifists
• environmentalists
• Green Party
• Greenpeace
• Nature Conservancy
• ecologists and other scientists
• ZPG (zero population growth)
• NPG (negative population growth)
• heterosexuals who use birth control and contraceptives
• (instead of abortion)
• Planned Parenthood
• libertarians
• law abiding citizens
• moderates
• centrists
• independents
• progressives
• people of every color (black, white, yellow, red, brown)
• males
• females
• neuters
• real Christians (Quakers and Mennonites)
• Jews
• Zoroastrians
• Buddhists
• Hindus
• Shintoists
• Jains
• Sikhs (pretty much any faith except Islam)
• atheists
• agnostics



Explanatory Notes:
1. It is not the military that is the problem, just the politicians who start the wars. I come from a distinguished military family that has fought in every war all the way back to the Revolutionary War so I know whereof I speak.
2. I don't really object to polygamists as people. Not all of them are like the violent ones or child molesting ones in the news. But they have such high birthrates that their lifestyle would wreck the planet. I have heard of polygamists who don't believe in having litters of children. I doubt this. [My only anecdotal experience being one time when I encountered a ménage a quatre, a guy and three gals, and there was not the expected presence of baby strollers. I have heard tell that ménages consider themselves different from polygamists.]
3. Despite being a Christian, I don't really object to swingers. They tend to be better behaved than most sexual experimenters. They practice safe sex and don't do it in front of children. I wonder if they seduced country bumpkin John Edwards. Would explain things.
3. I object to gays on several grounds. I'm a born-again Christian and the Bible condemns sodomy from Genesis to Revelation and every chapter in between. On the practical level of wanting world peace, it is hard to keep men and women from wanting to kill each other when they can't even have sex with each other because they act like Republicans and Democrats. Women are from malls, men are from penis. I'm sorry, I meant to say women are from Mars and men are from Venus.