So stop fawning over him and look at his policies. Now, white, gay men aren’t leading with Pete Buttigieg’s sex appeal. But they don’t have to. Their actions, celebrating him like he’s the next cumming of Jesus Christ, read loud and clear. I’m not discounting the exciting proposition of an out, gay candidate for any office. I yearn for far more diversity among our elected officials, but not at the expense of policies that will help the LGBTQ population, and us all. Let me be clear. I, too, would sit on Mayor Pete’s face. But only to shut him the f**k up from saying all that racist shit. And that equivocation shit. And all that self-serving shit. For a few weeks now I’ve been seeing Pete Buttigieg mania everywhere, especially among white, gay men: social media, corporate media, conversations with white, gay male friends. And it’s gotten to the point where I felt it necessary to dispel some myths about the two-term Democratic mayor from South Bend, Indiana. Sure, Mayor Pete, as many call him…
I don't volunteer to write about politics, you know. They make me here. I am of course glad to rave about the circus clowns as much as the next guy, I have my tweets and stand by them. But in the big picture, I know it doesn't do any good. The United States has transcended politics now. Elections, primaries,
democracy, laws, impeachment, parties, these things mean nothing in
the United States. They mean nothing because that's what the people
want them to do. It doesn't matter
at this point whether Donald Trump is removed from office or not. Pretending that removing Trump would fix everything at this point is like pretending assassinating Hitler would have stopped World War II. A new despot would have simply risen to take Hitler's place. Hitler was nothing without the country that brought him to power. The same case is true of Kim Jong-Un, Rodrigo Duterte, Xi
Jinping, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and of course Vlad
Putin. The United States has even proven this to itself before. We went into…
Where
do you start talking about American politics?Where do you end? You
can enter and exit at any point in the vacuum of the space-time
continuum like a neutrino, heard by nobody and affecting nothing. The
great wasteland of American politics in the 21st century
is that way because of the polarized division of everything into two
opposite parties. It is an extreme polarization because both parties
and all of the politicians in them keep discovering that they can say
and do anything and still get elected by their party. Given this
off-the-rails behavior, the two parties have arbitrarily occupied the
two most vapid niches that any political party in history has ever
occupied. They are:
Anti-society (Republicans)
Pro-society (Democrats)
Furthermore,
nothing much changes no matter which party has the majority, since
they hold everything in deadlock. Other countries stand in amazement
at the state of the US, but they have to understand one crucial
thing: it's all talk. We just…
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