Sarx

HILE I know I said “no more presidential political posts” for this year, I can NOT resist commenting on this. Not at all.

Last night, waiting in the parking lot at the grocery store to pick up my Brodie after work, I heard Viggo Mortensen talking with Jian Ghomeshi on CBC’s Q. Viggo mentioned that the Republican Slogan for this Election Cycle was “Country First” which sent chills up and down my spine. It was the first time I’d heard it spoken about. It sounds like something dreamed up by the Minister for Public Enlightenment. If I had not heard it credited to the Republican Party, I would have bet it was some horribly ironic left-wing joke trying to paint the Republicans as fascists.

This afternoon, I did a google and an image search, expecting to find all the radical left and right wing images associated with this fascist ideology. Instead I found a website, rather well done in tasteful grey-scale. What made me laugh, though, was the content of the site: Have a look at Country First: Nation Above Everything.

I’m with Viggo: I trust no form at all of Nationalism or Patriotism. Both the stupid party and the evil party suffer from the Mental Disorder or addiction known as American Exceptionalism. They both try to hook the rest of us with their addiction. Until they overcome that – maybe a 42 Day treatment programme? – neither of them deserves to be trusted.

OK, I’m back into my political cave now.