General Election day 2012 someone performed this search on Google: “2012 is going to bring planet of the apes if obama wins”
… and ended up on POLITUSIC.com. (To another post relating the general confusion and ape-like behavior of all politicians)
I don’t even know what that means, honestly, which is why I like the search. One can’t even tell if it’s necessarily someone who is anti Obama or not (…because let’s be honest with ourselves: most Romney voters aren’t Pro Romney, they’re Anti Obama). The search phrase could imply a negative tone towards how the right might over-react to a re-election of Obama, or a imply a negative tone about Obama’s… I guess… policies, maybe… that would bring about domination by a… I’ll stop there; y’all can interpret the other side on your own.
What exactly did this person mean by “bring planet of the apes if Obama wins”? Along the lines of what the aforementioned post addresses that all politicians don’t think with their big, human brains anymore, but are rather mostly exhibiting primal behavior? Or is there some other über-biased idea out there floating around in Conspiracy Land that I haven’t seen yet?
Are they investigating genetic research on apes? Space travel? Inter-species sexual tension? We may never know… maybe that’s a good thing.
But when searches like that exist in this country on election day, clearly, the polarization is so great that we all have a problem. It’s perfectly fine to have differing beliefs. But it’s no OK to have a country that is living in totally different realities. It’s not OK to have have the bases of both major political parties taking soothing mud baths in their own down-right hatred for the other side (especially when they don’t even know what the other side even really believes or does on a daily basis).
Maybe when it’s all over we can declare a truce for a few days and go catch a (non-political) movie. After the movie: It’s time to grow up, America. We’re a young country so this sort of teething pain makes sense, but to fix the dual-reality problem of this country we need one thing: education. Education, education, education. That’s the only way (because clearly, a billion dollars in advertising made the process even worse).
Published: by | Updated: 01-17-2013 08:41:24
