The South Should Not Be Synonymous With Stupidity

Dear elected representatives of the “South”, at all levels,

Please, do every one of your constituents a favor and the next time you go to speak, stop and think “Am I about to say something stupid?” If the answer is anything other than “No, and I can cite you independent and peer-reviewed evidence to back my statement” then please, KEEP your mouth shut.

Barely a week goes by without some politician from the south running his mouth off, making the region, and by implication those who live here, look foolish and stupid. If you’re not doing that, you’re showing yourselves to be hugely hypocritical, corrupt, or otherwise the scum of society.

We are tired of it.

When you make absurd statements without a shred of factual proof, when you abuse your position to attack people needlessly, when you openly embrace bigotry and hatred for no reason except political expedience, when you pointlessly and repetitively undertake pointless votes on issues for appearances sake while ignoring real issues, you are no better than a primate in a zoo, flinging excrement on us.

Your pleasant and well-compensated lifestyle comes from the public purse. We pay you to represent our interests, at the local, state or Federal level. If we wanted a buffoon parroting abuse and nonsense, the job would ask for a “Jester with Tourette’s”.

If you feel incapable of leaving your personal bigotry, religious beliefs, and general nuttiness in your own home, then by all means embrace it at home, and give up the job you are incapable of doing.

We’re tired of being the butt of other people’s snide comments; the joke “those people are so dumb they elected YOU” is wearing thin. Right now, if someone thinks about the South, they're likely to think of ignorant fools, inbreeding between guzzling moonshine, lynching people for not being 'Godly' enough, and caressing the one thing that's more important than anything else - guns.

And that is all your doing.

So the choice is yours. Grow up, start being responsible to more than a few lobby groups, and do the job you claimed to be capable of doing. Or be an adult, admit you can’t do it, and quit, so someone competent CAN.

Yours,

The Pirate Party of Georgia
The Pirate Party of Florida
The Pirate Party of Oklahoma

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However, it’s not the worst idea of them. Frankly, when I first got involved with politics, the primary election was one of the biggest surprises of the lot. A publicly funded election to decide who a political party would put up for election; that just doesn’t seem right I thought. These people are running a public campaign to elect them, not to office, but for the chance to run for office? That’s ridiculous.

Scalia Hints at End for USA PATRIOT Act

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Amanda Palmer: The art of asking

Another Meeting

We are to have another discussion on 3/7/2013 at 9:30pm
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Cory Doctorow talking about the Pirate Party

Cory Doctorow talking about the Pirate Party, Liquid Democracy and No Safe Harbor at the Decatur library http://www.dekalblibrary.org/



Talk and Q/A