26 Dec 2015, 5:28 am
I will have to admit that Ricky has a point about American dysfunction. But it's not what he thinks. (It rarely is.)
In this case, our dysfunction is in Americans' inability to have intellectual political conversation. Take any two Americans, and politics has to end with a fistfight, hurt feelings or, the ever popular "you're an idiot."
The most recent evidence of our intellectual-political dysfunction is candidate Trump's use of the word "Schlong" vis a vis Hillary Clinton. In the more intellecually-driven politics of the past, you never heard the following:
Vice-President Nixon had been schlonged in the election of 1960 (although it would have been accurate)
FDR never said: Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States was suddenly and deliberately schlonged by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan
In 1948, no one said that to get schlonged is Truman.
President Theodore Roosevelt never called the presidency The Schlong Pulpit.
President Nixon never said Some people want to know if their president is a crook. Well I am not a crook! I've schlonged everything I've got.
Warren G. Harding did not advocate for a schlong in every pot.
Woodrow Wilson did not say a Schlong is more precious than Peace.
When he debated Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln did not say that our nation cannot endure half-schlong and half-free
President Kennedy did not say ich bin ein schlongen to his German listeners.
Although Bill Clinton's schlong was brought into question many times, that was pretty recent. This, however, is sure-fire evidence that American political debate has reached a new low. Even for us here on Redscape.
Kill me now. I just can't watch anymore.
In this case, our dysfunction is in Americans' inability to have intellectual political conversation. Take any two Americans, and politics has to end with a fistfight, hurt feelings or, the ever popular "you're an idiot."
The most recent evidence of our intellectual-political dysfunction is candidate Trump's use of the word "Schlong" vis a vis Hillary Clinton. In the more intellecually-driven politics of the past, you never heard the following:
Vice-President Nixon had been schlonged in the election of 1960 (although it would have been accurate)
FDR never said: Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States was suddenly and deliberately schlonged by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan
In 1948, no one said that to get schlonged is Truman.
President Theodore Roosevelt never called the presidency The Schlong Pulpit.
President Nixon never said Some people want to know if their president is a crook. Well I am not a crook! I've schlonged everything I've got.
Warren G. Harding did not advocate for a schlong in every pot.
Woodrow Wilson did not say a Schlong is more precious than Peace.
When he debated Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln did not say that our nation cannot endure half-schlong and half-free
President Kennedy did not say ich bin ein schlongen to his German listeners.
Although Bill Clinton's schlong was brought into question many times, that was pretty recent. This, however, is sure-fire evidence that American political debate has reached a new low. Even for us here on Redscape.
Kill me now. I just can't watch anymore.
