The Sh*t L*st

Fuck CNN with a big stick wrapped in razor wire. Nice that there's an Arnold movie on USA every night, fuck them too.

Ahhhnold. His newest ads target Native American groups who are tax-exempt as being an example of the problems inherent in bureaucratic red tape and special interests. How fucking lovely. A quick Austrian breeze come down from the hinterlands as it were, to clear our minds of misguided favoritism and make things more equal for everyone. I smell a Fascist. Do you smell a Fascist? I smell a Fascist. Do you smell a Fascist? Is Arnold a Fascist? Does it fucking matter? Fascist is as Fascist does.

In his ad, Schwarzenneger sets himself up as the person who will see through politically correct and therefore economically unsound policies and take them down. Great! That's just what we need. That and flaming bamboo skewers jammed under our fingernails. It's too bad that he has made no effort to demonstrate that he has any knowledge of how or why any standing policy exists, and that he clearly has no idea how to enact whatever change he wants to bring about in the end.

The plain truth is that he doesn't want anything in the end. The end, for Arnold, as he says again and again by saying nothing about any ends, is for him to ride a wave of opportunism and not-at-all-veiled hypocrisy to the governorship of California. It's the oldest, emptiest shit bag of them all--I want to be governor, so elect me.

Why should we not buy his "I'm a populist looking out for the everyman" wares? Because he's not and he won't. Because he's a direct recipient of the special interest money flowing from the pockets of millionare US Rep. Darrell Issa and others. Because he is backed by a group of the radically self-interested, who demand that we vote before the state's legally mandated improvements in voting equipment can be implemented. Because he's a one-trick pony, and his one trick, "I'm against the government," won't look so hot if he's ever running the government.

The fact that he chooses to single out Native American groups as too highly favored by the state's tax structure makes plain his willingness to pander to our most base and stupid "let's have a flat tax" instincts, and is as gross as his opposition to driver's licenses for unregistered immigrants. Dare I say that he has a calculating eye on our increasingly heightened racism and xenophobia? Yes I do. He will reduce complex questions into simple answers, blatant in his straightforward, pseudo-analytical "hating," and in this way will we be divided.

How about the real problems the state has? How about the property tax laws that make things insane for new home owners? How about the fact that we live off of anonymous immigrant labor but are willing to risk our public health (at the very least) by mostly disavowing it? On these questions Schwarzenegger is silent. His only solution to anything (what is our problem, in his view? who knows?) is to point at and shoot whatever existing policy he deems easiest to point at and shoot.

Don't trust a man who wants the power to govern so much that he says government is bad but can't explain why. Shoot him.