As far as politics are concerned, the inability to progress can mire you in some deep quicksand. It happened with the Democrats and it’s happening to the Republicans. This past weekend the Conservative Political Action Conference was held and, boy, did it bring out the crazies. Randy’s favorite, Ms. Ann Coulter, had the following deep and introspective comment about John Edwards:

I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I — so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards.

Having had some sort of fallout concerning her big stupid mouth saying just about the same thing about Al Gore apparently had some effect, but not enough. She may be an idiot, but she has the right to say what she wants so that she can actually arrive at the point of looking like an ass.

I think this basically set the tone for the conservative cry-fest that passed this weekend. However, the actual bonafide topics that were discussed sounded as if nothing has moved for the conservatives either way, progressive or recessive. They seemed to harangue on and on about age-old conservative topics that are utterly failing because of their own distraction: The War on Iraq. Abortion, the sancitity of marriage, and, oh, yeah, get this one: how liberals will tax the shit out of everyone. Has anyone conservatively bent learned that it is their own Republican party that is spending and taxing like the world’s ending? Wait, that’s the assumption, isn’t it? That the world is ending soon and why the hell not let the rich feel better about getting richer all the while proclaiming themselves the fucking capitalist kings of Christianity?

Ahem.

Allow me to recompose myself.

As we approach the end of the first third of 2007, conservatives really seem to be on some sort of ride, free-wheeling downhill into a mud bog. I can’t say that the Democrats are doing much better, but they’re at least trying to revamp their platform. Not being one to agree with either party simply because their pockets are filled too much with the gratitude of American corporations, it’s obvious to me that the issues are coming to the forefront now. The major work, though, is to not allow the narrow isues to take the stage. This no longer includes just abortion, gay marriage, and stem cell research. For the Democrats, it includes the in-fighting concerning the race for the presidential nomination and making sure that the environmental issues don’t become repetitious sound bytes. Lucky for environmentalists (liberal and conservative), the environment is constantly changing and shows more and more proof that we need to change the way we live, eat, and commute so that our world can grow as it should.

It’s all political bullshit, though, eh?

Time for a revolution, methinks.