A Brief Compendium of Dirty Fucking Hippy© Values
This is just a short look at my values and what issues I find important.
This election season finds America bitterly divided, and I don't just mean rightwingers versus the Left.
I mean that even the Democratic party, as much as MOST of it wants "unity" in the quest for electoral dominance in November and beyond, has some rather deep rifts.
What I mean specifically is a sort of dividing line that has cropped up recently, as far as I am aware.
The groups on either side of this line I call "Responsible Serious Adults" - a term I have seen some people use pejoratively to refer to those who hold "RSA" values: more about those in a minute.
The other side, famously, is the Dirty Fucking Hippies©, usually written Dirty F'n Hippies© since we are expected to censor ourselves. RSA's, of course, are responsible and serious and thus never have the remotest need for censorship, self or otherwise.
So here is a short iconography of my values, which I know for certain, are not mine alone.
Peace Sign
Any Democrat who wants to end any war and bring any troops home anytime in this life is a Dirty Fucking Hippy©.
Wars are responsible things and it is not good to interfere with them until they have "worked".
Apparently the Responsible Serious Adult response to an illegal war predicated on known lies is to stay the course lest Democrats alienate voters who want an illegal war based on known lies.
I can't come out and say that RSA"s are pro-war, because they are not pro-war. They are against effective action to change any part of the course we find ourselves on for fear of being weakened in the coming election. The Responsible Ones message is stay the course.
Peace and peace signs are for children, I am to believe.
Feh.
Pot Leaf
Any Democrat that wants to reform the disaster of cannabis prohibition and the "war on Drugs" is a Dirty Fucking Hippy©.
RSA's, despite their education, fine family backgrounds, money, and superior value systems still buy completely the rightwing meme that the cannabis plant - you know.... mar-ju-wanna, reefer, the Devil's Weed with roots in Hell! - is somehow a threat worse than pestilence, terrorism, and nuclear war combined.
It's always been 100% hogwash and bullshit, but hogwash and bullshit sell well in this country, thanks to RSA's who curdle like sour milk at the mere mention of relegalizing this friggin' useful weed.
One expects Republicans and rightwingers to believe this crap: they spout this constantly while half the Republican party constituency smokes pot and wants it relegalized as well.
I blame the RSA's more than the Repubs for the continued state of this dumbassery. Anytime this issue makes it into the light of day, there THEY are, wringing their hands, wadding up their panties and scuffing their penny loafers, whining that the Democrats will lose everything if we don't hush up immediately.
These people want - rightfully - to beat the GOP in any election that is held and so do I. RSA's are wrong to cower in fear from the GOP, especially now that they are more or less completely scandal-ridden.
The GOP's candidate for President is another telling sign of how far these criminals have fallen. John McCain is like the Official Face of the Responsible Serious Adult. The man is dumber than a hammer and will lie through his teeth during the times he can actually enunciate an entire sentence.
Stop handwringing and relegalize the weed you doofuses.
Darwin Fish
The next important value in the truly progressive individual's portfolio is the grasp and basic understanding of Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
I am actually unsure where RSA's fall on this - my best guess is they actually share this value with "us", since, in the end, we are actually "on the same side" and should be working together against the GOP/rightwing.
I have brought it up because is is a core value: Dems mostly see the value of evolutionary theory, Repubs - for a variety of scary reasons - CHOOSE to ignore science altogether (except when science can be prostituted to give them data they want - such as when we want to relegalize pot - they are all science then).
The rightwing's knuckle-dragging commitment to pseudo-religious fictitious ideologies about Life and Creation causes them to have to retreat to utterly ridiculous positions of hard-core Creationism, which lately got a makeover and was called "Intelligent Design". It's still Creationism and it's still stupid.
Evolution is the dominant explanation for how we got here. Doesn't really explain WHY we're here, but it seems mostly important that we acknowledge we are here.
Again, as far as I can tell, RSA's and DFH©'s more or less agree here. And that is very important and good. We have to work together.
Upside Down Flag
Any Democrat that tries to intervene in this country's leadership crisis is a Dirty Fucking Hippy©.
The Upside Down Flag, of course, is an international message meaning, in our case, Nation in Distress. In this country at this time it means Impeachment or some other form of effective intervention into the hijacking of the US Government by rightwing extremists.
It means wanting to do SOMETHING to stop the carnage, the waste, the unfettered criminality.
The George W. Bush Administration is by far the most corrupt, criminal, and incompetent administration in this country's short history.
Hands down.
The RSA"s, though, have distinguished themselves on this issue, if in no other. RSA's absolutely HOWL in opposition to lifting a finger to do anything about these criminals.
Any attempt to discuss or force our "leaders" to do the right, Constitutional thing, is met with howls of "We'll lose in November!" "You'll damage Obama! "Waaaaaaaaaaah!!!"
That goes for antiwar protests. Anything you try to do to intervene will doom the Democratic party.
Team Bush, of course, has banked on these people being loathe to do anything and, despite the GOP minority, despite the Democratic "Majority" and despite Bush being the least popular president EVER, the RSA's SWEAR there is no way we can do anything remotely like "the right thing" for fear of losing everything. It's completely irrational, despite their pseudo-intelligent mathematical "proofs" we cannot do the right thing.
The RSA's, and their patron Saint, Nancy Pelosi, have done such a great job running interference on those who would attempt to intervene in the Team Bush Crime Wave, that we are just a few months shy of Bush successfully completing his Second illegitimate term and he has these people to thank, even though he never will.
Once he is out of office, the GOP is going to bash the Democrats silly with how the American People Endorsed Team Bush Bullshit as evidenced by his not being impeached. (Ever note that you can't even spell "bullshit" without "Bush"?) The Responsible Serious Adults will be forever to blame for this directly because they worked so hard to prevent it.
To summarize Responsible Serious Adult Values looks like this:
*Losing is Winning.
*Capitulation is Strength.
*Majorities are powerless.
This is what I pick up from the opposition to doing the right things in this country at this time.
The RSA's ideas might appear good on paper and in theory, but they suck.
We must end wars.
Pot should never have been illegal and there is simply no rational or intelligent defense of keeping it illegal. It is not acceptable to still believe the propaganda. Democrats should relegalize it ASAP and reap the rewards.
Science is indispensable in learning about our world. We cannot be cooperating with intense efforts to dumb the country down into a 12th century feudal state. Evolution is the dominant explanation of Life and our World. It does not "contradict" "the Bible". That's just more rightwing nonsense.
We must impeach or otherwise do SOMETHING to hold Bush et al accountable for all the people they have caused to be killed, wounded, maimed, traumatized, displaced or otherwise ruined. And "troops" are people and Bush et al have hung them out in harms way based on lies to invade countries JUST for oil. The DFH©'s called bullshit on the "war" from before the ramp-up began. Now we know for certain it was all about the oil.
The Dirty Fucking Hippies© have been vindicated on this one. We. Were. Right.
The rest of you got punked! Told ya!
Viva the DFH©!
I want to leave you with this idea: I suggest that it is high time for people to worry about being called a 'Dirty Fucking Republican©.'.