Election 2008: Isn't the American Way Overdue For Change?

I cannot think of a better time to be a culture of one.

The 2008 presidential election is stirring up so much hatred you'd think another civil war is on the horizon. Within this ill will you see just how bad the regression of society regarding moral behavior and humanity can get in the USA. This is partly due to the almost sports-oriented approach many people have adopted about the elections. They have picked a team and now simply want their side to win. As questionable as polls are, they presently show Obama moving ahead of McCain now that the final televised debate is over. This may be because McCain made a fatal error to align himself with someone whose name I will not utter but who is now becoming perhaps the most famous plumber of all time. If you were paying attention at the last debate, here's how McCain may have revealed he's not interested in being too honest:

1. McCain does not even know the man. Yet, he falsely refers to him as "My old buddy."

2. A plumber represents the big businessmen McCain mingles with? No. He represents the smallest self-employed person who stands to benefit the absolute least from McCain's tax cuts for business owners while mega corporations continue to benefit the most. For McCain's next political stunt would he even hire the man to fix his leaky faucet? McCain would more likely tax the man's health benefits.

3. McCain and his supporters claim taxes would increase under Obama's plan, but Obama has repeatedly said anyone making under $250,000 would see no tax increase. That is unquestionably the vast majority of Americans. It's highly unlikely most plumbers make that kind of money annually. Yet, McCain tells the TV audience repeatedly that Obama will raise the plumber's taxes. McCain has his favorite plumber confused with big companies manufacturing toilets?

I have tried to give McCain a chance to show that he's not really going to be the Bush clone some say he'll be, but he's too late. Obama may get some of the facts wrong when it comes to what McCain's proposals are, but you don't see the despicable level of dirty politics coming from the Obama camp like you see with the McCain campaign. And I hate to say it, but given McCain's supporters seem to be unswayed by such lies they must believe this is just the way the political wheel rolls in the USA nowadays--bent rims and half flat.

What kind of American is McCain attracting to his campaign? I couldn't believe this news article was posted on Yahoo:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081015/ap_on_el_pr/obama_secret_service

From the article:
"Shouts of 'traitor,' 'terrorist,' 'treason,' 'liar,' and even 'off with his head' [all in reference to Obama] have rung from the crowd at Republican rallies. The anti-Obama taunts and jeers are noticeably louder when McCain appears with Palin, a big draw for GOP conservatives. She accused Obama last week of 'palling around with terrorists'..."

Can you believe one McCain supporter tried to convince me that I was ill informed because the secret service later found in the recorded tapes of a McCain rally nobody shouted out the words, "kill him," as was the primary concern? Traitor and terrorist are still apparently fine labels according to this McCain supporter's way of looking at it. All you have to do is go to Yahoo Answers and similar posts on the Internet to see that plenty of McCain supporters are STILL spreading lies about Obama being an Arab a muslim or both. Then they wonder why Saturday Night Live is making fun of someone they call the "crazy McCain rally lady?"

I'm really not trying to be rude here, but articles such as these suggest that the crowds at McCain rallies are no better than a lynch mob. Palin is making horrendously false accusations to stir up more hatred while she hides from the media. And to think the Secret Service needs to be called in to investigate threats against Obama even before he's the president? What kind of American is McCain attracting to his campaign?

See for yourself just how horrendously ignorant some of McCain's supporters have become. As appalling as this is, I managed to come across a CNN video that demonstrates just how rotten it's gotten. You don't need to have my interests in psychology to tell you that the McCain supporters in this video have become experts at rationalizing their behavior. They have found a way to make it right:

http://www.cnn.com/video/savp/evp/?loc=dom&vid=/video/politics/2008/10/17/racist.obama.newsletter.kcal

You see toward the end of the video the McCain supporter says the only reason fried chicken, watermelon, and Kool Aid are a part of stereotyping African Americans is because OTHERS believe this to be so. I'll remind you that oppressors rarely can see themselves as the oppressors, which is one reason they continue what they do. The reporter obviously caught the woman in a lie (because why would the group that made the phony dollar bill choose these specific elements widely known to be associated with African Americans), and I thought at first the woman was engaging in cognitive dissonance reduction. She knew on an unconscious level that the whole scheme was indeed wrapped up in prejudice but tried to think of it in a way that made it morally acceptable. She wants the reporter to look at it in the same way. But no. This is not simply cognitive dissonance reduction. The woman is too well rehearsed. This is now the thinking of a whole sector of our society, and they're so brazen about it they don't even care to hide it from the media.

You see the man who won't open his door to the interviewer saying the same exact thing. He says that watermelons and fried chicken come with an equal association to African American stereotypes as does meatballs and spaghetti. Surely, unless the man has been living in a void he knows he's blatantly lying. That's what gets me the most about the people who support McCain to the extent that they are giving in to the temptation to lie. They don't seem at all concerned how obviously immoral they're behaving, and I'm sad to say it's because Bush politics have taken too firm a foothold in the mind of some Americans.

Apparently, McCain supporters think further polarization of the country is the way to send a new president into power. If you need more proof of just how divisive some McCain supporters have become watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZPQNZ_bqdI

Have YOU ever heard what this self-proclaimed "intelligent" man told the camera?--that it's common knowledge the US is going to be "taken down from within?" He says it with such conviction it would qualify as a delusion given there is no real evidence to support the claim. But pay special attention to the other McCain supporter calling himself a "proud racist" whose crystalized vision allows him to combine overgeneralization with prejudice shouting about how all arabs are "dirtbags" who hate his kids and who will hate his grandkids. Gee, I wonder why? To have McCain in office would only become justification for this man's behavior, and he would have no trouble saying, "You see. I was right." They want so badly to justify their anger and hatred, even using the lame excuse that this is a "free country," which to them means you can do whatever you want no matter who gets hurt in the process. It really smacks of the same ideology you see Bush supporting in which military raids continue in Iraq and Afghanistan without enough concern for how many civilian casualties are killed or injured. How could any American of sound conscience not be disturbed by this?

It's enough to make you think the American way is indeed way overdue for a change.