Republican Convention Blues: The Jig is Up! Any easy Hara-kiri Alternatives for those of us who want to opt out?

I was just out there on the street thinking about throwing beer bottles at cars. Well not really, but some friends and I were joking about it. It must feel good for at least a few hours a day to feel totally degenerate, don't you think? Try to imagine our electorate- so many folks who end up just giving up and giving in to all the things people at the bottom have always had to give in to when their jigs were up. Helplessness because of addictions that comfort them, anger that makes them feel powerful for a short while, and then friendlessness, loneliness, hopelessness. If you suffer those things with the cushion of wealth, you can cruise through and build a network of acceptable excuses to be joked about later.

But if you suffer all that in poverty, you can't joke about it very easily. You are vulnerable to take-over and manipulation by the first people who come along, see something they can use you for, and don't mind promising you the moon without the slightest intention of delivering on their promises. They'll take what they want from you and move on. The Republican party is taking advantage of the unfortunate American people who feel that particular brand of hopelessness that creates victims for predators.

But that's it for my compassion for what's going on in politics this week. I cannot believe the conniving goings-on to create a government in a vacuum, in a bubble, in a Chinese-like isolation from the people.

Try to imagine the kind of people at the top who are such lying scoundrels that they think the Sarah Palin video will work...did you see it? It's beyond shameless pandering to the weaker people of the nation - those with lesser intellect and those who haven't had the advantages and opportunities we;ve had and that we've provided for our children.....

We have to deal with reality. Sarah Palin is reality in America today. She is the product of what America calls education nowadays, which isn't much, and of our Jerry Springer society. She did her party time, as in PAR-TAY!!!! and she did what she had to do to capture the American imagination....she prostituted herself to politics. So now she's on the money honey. While we sit here and weep and wail.

SOme people say it's the dumbing down of America. I am amazed and blown away by what I'm realizing about America and how America has declined from the lofty place I knew as a a child. But now, where can we go?

The "drill baby drill" chant really was a terrifying turn. The terrifying part was that, if it's dependence on foreign oil we're talking about...the zealots could be right. When I stop throwing beer bottles and calm down, T Boone Pickens seems pretty reasonable.

Oh hell, this is a mess! I didn't even know you were allowed to say the words "off-shore drilling" out loud, let alone get thousands of Americans to cheer for it.

I just can't believe how the Republicans have been so smart. The whole bit about poor little Johnny practicing his speech in front of the mirror and in front of his mother, and pacing back and forth....genius b.s.!!! Amazing!

Is there some painless moral equivalency of hari-kari I could try for awhile? Something honorable but easy perhaps? Or is it going to have to get REALLY SCARY?