DEMOCRACY? YOU CAN’T HANDLE DEMOCRACY

I see a nation rendered infantile, and vicious by the manipulation of second hand fear and demented bigotry. I really want no part of this mass of fools and their walleyed values. My disgust is that of one who has always believed in the people, but you bastards make it hard, going on impossible. Damn you all and the red states that raised you, I have no intention of compromising with your bovine book-burning stupidity. When the hell is your bloody Rapture going to take you and leave this life to the rational? I am hardly able to write. Fortunately Maureen Dowd can...

W. doesn't see division as a danger. He sees it as a wingman. The president got re-elected by dividing the country along fault lines of fear, intolerance, ignorance and religious rule. He doesn't want to heal rifts; he wants to bring any riffraff who disagree to heel. W. ran a jihad in America so he can fight one in Iraq - drawing a devoted flock of evangelicals, or "values voters," as they call themselves, to the polls by opposing abortion, suffocating stem cell research and supporting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage. (NY Times)

CRYPTIQUE – When democracy fails and negativity won’t pull you through (try violent surrealism.)