InsaneJournal

Just Fuck It
I've never been a big Obama fan. I never believed he was liberal, and always pegged him for center-right. I never thought the election of a black man signified anything except now minorities can get fucked over by our own kind. Maybe I'm cynical because that's my nature, or because I've been subjected to the Bush clusterfuck from the moment I became fully politically aware up until now. But all I ever saw Obama as was More Of The Same - a rich, detached politician who cared more about climbing a political ladder rather than actually helping anyone. Oh, he's smart, but his intelligence won't help us any.

I've been following the Rick Warren drama for the past few days, but haven't really bothered to say much about it, because it's pretty standard for Obama or any other politician without any real convictions. Or a Democrat. I and other true liberals are pissed. Some are getting disillusioned (the more, the better, I say). Then there are those Obamafreaks who think he's God or something, and insist that we all continue to trust him despite him repeatedly showing that's not such a great plan. But this rant isn't about them, or even specifically about Obama.



Rick Warren is a bigot, plain and simple. It does not matter how he presents his ideas, it's what his actual ideas are. He equates homosexuality with pedophilia and incest. He compares the pro-choice movement to Nazis and the Holocaust. He believes a wife is supposed to "submit" to her husband. He's homophobic and a misogynist, and his views are not mainstream.

It is impossible to sit down and negotiate with him, because he doesn't want to negotiate, he wants to hate and be divisive. He doesn't want to debate "issues," he thinks gays and women are second-class citizens, not worthy of basic human rights. In other words: Fuck Rick Warren. If we had a real liberal President with real convictions, Rick Warren wouldn't be allowed 100 miles near the inauguration. (Not to mention there would be no invocation in the first place and he'd pledge on the Constitution instead of the Bible, but that's another rant.)

This just reveals the whole thing I hated about Obama's "let's all get along" policy. There are some people you can not get along with, ever, through no fault of your own. It's perhaps overused at this point, but no one would think of honoring a KKK member by giving them a place in the inauguration ceremony. As I long suspected, Obama's idea of "let's all get along" means bending over backwards to the extreme right on.

This past year has been exhilarating to some (the only ones you get to see on TV), and has broken others. I've proudly called myself a feminist for years, but it wasn't until this election season that I finally grasped "misogyny" truly means "hatred of women" and it runs rampant through our society. I've cried about it, and I've never felt that level of despair, anger, or sense of being trapped before.

Because, at the heart of it all, I want to be treated with some fucking respect, and I think all people deserve not to be hated over some bullshit reasons.

And that's where this Warren-gate drama is getting me all ragey. I'm sick of reading the argument that Warren's intolerance should be tolerated. That gays (and women) need to shut up and sit down and deeply appreciate any crumbs that get tossed their way. That decency and respect when it comes to these groups is just about "issues" that can be debated about. That trading in people's fucking dignity is worth it to play political games. As if Warren's going to have a change of heart or he can be reasoned with.

No.

Just no, no, and no. I can't take it. I'm glad I haven't had to talk to such people in person, because it would be very difficult to not start screaming at them. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of the rampant misogyny, homophobia, racism, and fifty flavors of out and out bigotry running rampant everywhere and the assholes who perpetuate it and the assholes who enable it with shit-eating grins telling the minorities who have to endure this day in and day out to "just" wait it out until they decide who gets to play.

Fuck that. Fuck them. Fuck fuck fuck. (And if you have a problem with my excessive use of "fuck": Fuck you and grow the fuck up, you self-righteous fucker.)