What They Say

The guy on the left is Bob Beauprez (running for Colorado Governor), and the other one's just a doofus blogger somewhere in central Virginia.

On occasion, Bob kinda channels Willard Romney and says things like "...we’ve got almost half the population perfectly happy that somebody else is paying the bill..."

Now, there're two guys pictured above.  Half of two is one.  So Bob thinks one of the guys in that picture is a deadbeat moocher who wants taxpayers to pick up the check.

But guess what, Bob; only one of the guys in that picture is trying to get on the government payroll - Bob.

It's not so much that guys like Beauprez love to show just how hollow and superficial and lazy their thinking is; and it's not even the fact that so many of us are willing to go along with it.

What makes me crazy is that the whole thing is just flat false.  Saying "half of the people want a freebie blah blah blah" is another way to reinforce the bullshit about "both sides do it"; "they're all same"; "everybody does it" etc etc etc, in order to keep us all paralyzed, in order to maintain the status quo, in order to keep us from electing people who want to serve rather than rule - you know; people who actually know what the fuck self-government's about and how to make it work.

So no, Bob - we're not all the same, and not even close to half of us are looking for the rest to support them - you are.