Cuba, G-20 and Republican Uselessness.

I just wanted to talk a little bit about recent events and their implications in the future:

Cuba:

While Obama's move was applauded by most democrats and wildly criticized by blind republicans, it didn't do much. The fact still remains that America maintains a stubborn embargo that would have had even more disastrous consequences if Cuba hadn't been so pragmatic in dealing with the Soviets and now Europe. Now Cuban-Americans can visit Cuba and send money. But a lot of Cubans here, at least many fiery ones in Miami wouldn't go back anyway. They'd much rather put on a huge party in Dolphins Stadium when Fidel Castro dies (true story) . The money might help a bit, but if we take the examples of Mexico and Mexican-Americans what they need is fair trade, not visitation and remittances. The stupid embargo makes Cuba spend many times over 3x more on important imports such as medicine. Still, it remains a fighting a country that makes Latin America (and the U.S. ) jealous in educational and health standards. It is obvious blockades and embargos do not work, while only making the "enemy" more stubborn and resistant. The example of Cuba and Palestine is out there for all to see.

G-20:

With that said, Obama made great progress at the recent G-20 summit. It's amazing how the world deposits trust and confidence in him. He was able to mediate a conflict with France and China and he was clearly the leader among leaders, instead of a creepy old man that gives back massages to Angela Merkel and makes world leaders cringe. He gave a great speech in France calling out the Europeans for a knee-jerk anti-americacnism that had developed in recent years while also being humble and saying America should also learn to appreciate Europe. Overall it was a very successful trip.

Republican uselessness:

I've come to the conclusion that the republican party is the most shameful image of America in this world. It is not an opposition party, but a mud-slinging bunch of imbiciles who know nothing of what they're talking about. There was a time when being a republican meant something concrete, an understandable and rational opposition. But the developments since and a bit before Nixon drew all that was bad from it to the top.

I'm very opposed to a two-party state and I'm by no means a democrat but the Republican party has just deteriorated to a point of no return. It must either die completely and arise anew like a phoenix or a new party (hopefully parties) will take its place. If you ask me the future will be the latter. Instead of reevaluating itself, the republicans have only shifted more to the right. Instead of seeing the huge mistake of Sarah Palin, they support her more than ever. Instead of reaching out to minorities, the educated classes, etc. they are more and more concentrated within the rich capitalist/uneducated whites, an ironic combination but that makes sense given the history of this country.

The misdirected anger is ridiculous. Propagated networks such as Fox News, the public turns its righteous anger of the situation on a government that is barely 3 months old, instead of the failed companies and policies of wall street. Just like while most southerners did not own slaves, the vast majority of confederate troops fought for a system they never did and never would benefit from. That is what these "tea parties" are. Misdirected anger. They are a huge tea bagging on the american public. Funded by the rich, the people holding "Obama is a Facist!" don't know what facism is, and even less that they are in fact benefitting from Obama's tax plans.

It's scary when you think that this country is so evenly divided between left and right. It makes no sense how a failed platform such as Mccain's (which I love as an individual, not as a president) would still gather 46% of the popular vote in the election.

Even scarier is the power of the pundits over these people. When Glenn Beck incites not only anger towards the administration but also implies violence(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNp9GSbFQhQ&feature=related), when the Texan governor implies secession from the union, when pundits warn to buy guns while you can, all these things scare me because we have 46% of the population who voted for these guys. And lets say 46% do not necessarily agree with these outcries but I'm confident in saying that at least half of those 46% do. When Glenn Beck does his crazy antics in San Antonio and calls for secession in Texas and the huge mob applauds that is some scary shit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3W-gmwnWLs).

It seems to me like Obama has been in power for years in the way Republicans are attacking him. But he hasn't. In only 3 months Newt Gringwitch is already calling Obama " the biggest power grabber in U.S. history" . In only 3 months Republicans have fired every sort of inane criticism (none of them really useful or constructive) of Obama. Like bowing to the Saudi King? Who cares? But apparently to republicans that is unacceptable. It was ok when Bush kissed and held hands with the Saudi King though, that's all good , no homo you know? It took far longer for the Democrats to start fighting back during Bush's 8 year reign and even when they did it was utterly weak.

So who is leading this ridiculous party? It's certainly not Michael Steele, the first black chairman but also an idiot who wants to bring republicans to the "urban-suburban" scene through using words such as "bling" and other ghetto sayings. No one in congress seems to lead them either. The real leaders of the republican party are brain-dead farts like Rush Limbaugh, O'Reilly and that stupid "principle" 14-year old they had speak at their conference.

That's why I say the republicans are contributing nothing to the discussion. They are useless, an opposition without opposition. And the only way to escape this circle of ignorance is through education.