You remember Dory, the little blue fish in the Disney-Pixar film Finding Nemo? According to her, she suffers from short-term memory loss- an unfortunate predicament that leads to some very interesting plot twists along the journey she takes with the clownfish, Marlin.Anyway. Hilarious fish aside, I am of the opinion that Americans suffer from a bad case of short-term memory loss. Why?
Maybe it's because American Conservatives seem dead-set on forgetting that their golden boy, George Bush, began the bailouts back in '08. Maybe because liberals consistently forget that they hated the wars not so long ago. Maybe because conservatives also always forget that not too long ago they were marked as possible terrorists...and then cheer on the deliberate expatriation of terrorists and the stripping of Constitutional rights from them.
Maybe all of that...
There's a video my mom found during the '08 election cycle. It featured parodies of George Bush and Clinton, with a "baby" John McCain and Obama, and Bush and Clinton were giving their two prodigies political advice. At one part in the song, they are singing about how their political plans are failing, people are getting upset...
"But if efforts at deflection aren't succeeding/And you feel that your career is on the brink/you've one trump card to play before conceding/As the details of your scandal become more than they can handle/They will surely seek relief and with memories oh so brief/With but one cycle of the news they'll find trivia to amuse/*gasp* Brittney's back in rehab!"
Yes folks, that is exactly what America is like. And this is what we're doing to ourselves.
Welcome to the world of one-week attention spans.
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And wet me introduce you to the Supreme Court *clapping* they win with a memory of only 4 days.
With my father in the military I can see a little more than the average american, and what I see I don't like.
Apparently are government is not protected by fast thinking generals, but by politicians most of who know nothing of the war we are faced with, the war of terrorism-in short America makes rules to play by and enforce it upon Americans so that the insurgents have the great upper hand in tactics.
Well it's all in God's hands.
~Lucas
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