Despite the fact that these snakes are cast from the same mold, they pretend to be polar opposites and adversaries.

Let’s talk about the tough guy bit that both groups love to play. Is anyone really impressed by a self-proclaimed tough guy? For those of us that live in the real world and don’t hide behind an army of bodyguards, nobody is tough. No neck has been made that can resist the bite of steel. Usually, when someone is doing all kinds of huffing and puffing about how tough they are, you can rest assured that they’d be the first ones to flee from the first sign of danger, or if cornered, soil their designer pants. Can you imagine any of these politicians meeting the criminals they want to be so tough on alone, somewhere secluded, and still running their mouth? They would quickly change their tune and be quite friendly and submissive. As to these tough rappers, they usually break down and rat on all their guys the minute they get into any serious trouble. A hot mouth should never be misconstrued as a sign of valor. What are their deeds? Getting shot? So if my house cat goes out and gets shot by some punk kid, he’s now eligible to be a gangster rapper? The idea, fellows, is to avoid getting shot. I’ve known clowns in prison who’d been shot and liked to brag about it. The thing is, if you knew these guys you’d understand why someone would want to shoot them in the first place. It certainly wasn’t because they were tough.

Regarding rappers and politicians being pseudo-revolutionaries, the reality is that both groups serve the status quo. The politicians do so in a more obvious fashion, claiming they’ll be the ones to bring about the needed changes, while accepting millions in campaign contributions to keep the wheels greased for the powerful. The most amusing side-show has been the promise by politicians to change the culture. What makes politicians qualified to orchestrate a cultural revolution, is not something the media has bothered to ask. At the very least, these highbrow politicians should have been asked if grantingpeoplethe gift of culture was in fact better than providing them with such things as affordable health care, good paying jobs, a clean environment, etc… Why bother with such trivial things though, when our leadership is fighting culture wars for us. Oh my!

Be not deceived, cultural revolutions occur as a result of social changes caused by inventions, discoveries, or works of art that by their magnitude, good or bad, force people to change how they perceive the world they live in, and therefore modify their behavior accordingly. For example, the Industrial Revolution in England resulted in a cultural revolution. Through each generation, much of the populace moved to the cities where the work was, which led the English people further and further away from the Puritanism of the previous era. What great works or inventions do our contemporary politicians offer us to change the culture? New Laws! Under that ideology, the ideal culture could only come to exist under a totalitarian regime, where the culture would be imposed by political leaders. That’s what happened in Germany when Hitler was in power, and that’s what’s going on in North Korea today. In a free nation,culture is created by the people and reflected by the government, not the other way around! The quick fix of passing laws to change cultural problems demonstrates a complete ignorance of culture’s role in a free society.

Meanwhile, the rapper parades around as a revolutionary, opposed to the government and politicians, voicing dissent over their oppression and folly, giving hope for glory to the unfortunate black youth. Deception, ignorance and bondage! Realize that politicians, especially Republicans, could dream of no greater gift than rappers as a propaganda machine to show the public why they want all these laws, cops, and prisons. Politicians and racists could never portray black people in the manner that rappers do with such evil tact as to glorify abusing women, using and selling drugs, and committing acts of violence like battery and murder. While politicians and racists publicly ridicule rappers, in private they would kiss them on the mouth for the job they’ve done. The racists are obviously delighted to see rappers encouraging the self-destruction of their own race, especially the youth. Pat yourselves on the backs, morons! You’re doing a great job as the mouthpiece for the KKK.

Despite America’s imperfections, if a child stays in school, avoids crime, and tries their hardest to succeed within the framework of the system, that child has as much if not more of an opportunity than do most of the world’s children at living a decent life. The rappers who encourage children to buck the system are not only not giving the system a chance to work, but more importantly they are not giving the children a chance to be successful. This should not be surprising since without rap, most rappers would be failures themselves. For most Americans, the biggest obstacle they will face in their life is their self. If you avoid shooting yourself in the foot by getting into drugs and crime, your chances for success are pretty good.

When rappers glorify drug use, they are in collusion with drug dealers who trick children to use or sell drugs for them. The use of children in drug dealing hasbeen a standard practice in our nation for a very long time. This is caused by the adult drug dealers being too cowardly to face the risk of incarceration for themselves and finding it much easier to manipulate kids to take all the risks for them. I equate these drug dealers who use children in this manner with pedophiles. When caught, they should be classified as child predators and not be allowed around children when released, just as if they’d raped a child. Make no mistake, the child who uses and sells drugs has been damaged for life in a manner similar to a child who has been molested. Drug using and dealing can lead to both physical and mental trauma to a child, which they might never recover from. Once these predators and their rapper accomplices that glorify drugs get these children hooked on drugs, it will be very difficult for that child to recover and fully realize their potential. Prisons and graveyards are full of young people whose talents will never come to light. The cost to society of the tragedies that inevitably follow when children get into drugs, tarnishes all the “bling-bling” that rappers like to show off from promoting that lifestyle. The ideology rappers promote to get their thirty pieces of silver is what’s behind the destruction of our nation’s cities. There could be no greater “Sell Outs!”.

Obviously, rappers didn’t invent all the wickedness that they glorify. However, unlike politicians, they do have an impact on the culture. They do help mold the perception of many of our nation’s youth and with that comes a tremendous responsibility. The sad thing is that most of them are not even cognizant of the role they play. Yet, while politicians remain impotent at changing our culture, they have passed a number of laws resulting in our nation’s prison population growing from one to two million people in recent years. This backlash to crime could not have happened, nor the entire Republican revolution of the 1990’s, without the image of the “thug” being glorified so prominently by so called “gangster” rappers. For every dumb kid that thought it was cool, there was a multitude of horrified adults who flocked to the polls and voted en masse, which helped give the Republicans Congress in 1994.

Talk is cheap, and if a person can get away with talking instead of working, they’ll usually take the easy way. Living in a democracy, freedom cuts both ways. People are free to lie about who they are or what’s best for the country. It’s up to the individual to be smart enough to not get conned. Politicians claim that what’s best for the country is to become a police state with more cops and prisons. Rappers would have you believe that life is about getting high and accumulating money and “bitches,” by any means necessary. If you look deep enough, you’ll see that rappers and politicians are cut from the same cloth. Toilet paper. Maybe that’s why they are so full of shit.