{"id":32237,"date":"2015-08-06T02:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32237"},"modified":"2015-08-04T21:13:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T01:13:25","slug":"democrats-republicans-and-their-natural-prey-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/08\/06\/democrats-republicans-and-their-natural-prey-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats, Republicans, and – their natural prey – voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

P.J. O’Rourke<\/a> on the real motivation for politicians to interest themselves in you<\/em>:<\/p>\n

I would like to address myself to the poor, the huddled masses, the wretched refugees teeming to America\u2019s shore, the homeless, the economically, socially, and mentally tempest-tossed. Also, I\u2019d like to address the young, the hip, the progressive, the compassionate, and the caring. I\u2019d like a word with everyone who votes for Democrats.<\/p>\n

Democrats hate your guts.<\/p>\n

Democrats need your vote and they\u2019ll do anything \u2014 no matter how low and degrading \u2014 to get it. They hate you the way a whore hates a john.<\/p>\n

All politicians hate people. Politics is a way to gain power over people without justification for having that power. Nothing in the 11,000-year history of politics \u2014 going back to the governing elites of Mesopotamia \u2014 indicates that politicians are wiser, smarter, kinder, more moral, or better skilled at any craft (aside from politics) than we are.<\/p>\n

But political rulers need the acquiescence of the ruled to slake the craving for power. Politicians hate you the way a junkie hates junk.<\/p>\n

Politicians gain power by means of empty promises or threats, or both when they\u2019re on their game. Should you vote for people who are good at politics? No. You should vote for Republicans. We\u2019re lousy.<\/p>\n

Believe me, I know why you don\u2019t vote for Republicans. You see the Republican candidates and they look so … Bush-League, Dog Walker, Rubio Rube, Get-Outta-the-Carson, Hucka-Upchuck, Ap-Paul-ling, Cruz Control, Fat-Fried Christie Crispy, Son-of-a-Kasich, Dingleberry Perry, Flee the Fiorina, Sancta-Santorum, Graham Cracker, and Nervous 7\/11 Night Shift Manager Jindal.<\/p>\n

And never mind the busted flush Trump Card who should be spray-painted with Rust-Oleum primer, have a squirt gun super-glued to his hand, and kicked through the front door of the Ferguson, Mo., police station.<\/p>\n

You think, \u201cI don\u2019t want to vote for these people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just between you and me, we Republicans think the same thing.<\/p>\n

Republican politicians stink. This is because real Republicans don\u2019t go into politics. We have a life. We have families, jobs, responsibilities, and it takes all our time and energy to avoid them and go play golf. We leave politics to our halt, our lame, and our feeble-minded. Republican candidacies are sinecures for members of the GOP who are otherwise useless and\/or retired.<\/p>\n

Democrats, on the other hand, are brilliant politicians. And I mean that as a vicious slur. Think how we use the word \u201cpolitics.\u201d Are \u201coffice politics\u201d ever a good thing? When somebody \u201cplays politics\u201d to get a promotion, does he or she deserve it? When we call a coworker \u201ca real politician,\u201d is that a compliment?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

P.J. O’Rourke on the real motivation for politicians to interest themselves in you: I would like to address myself to the poor, the huddled masses, the wretched refugees teeming to America\u2019s shore, the homeless, the economically, socially, and mentally tempest-tossed. Also, I\u2019d like to address the young, the hip, the progressive, the compassionate, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,13],"tags":[768,188,517],"class_list":["post-32237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-democrat","tag-electionwatch","tag-republican"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8nX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32240,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32237\/revisions\/32240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}