Politics

Congress passed the Addiction and Mental Health Parity Legislation assuring that at least one good thing will come out of the massive bank bailout plan that has been making international headlines this week. While I am pleased to see this progress made, it bothers me that an issue that affects nearly half of all Americans in some manner had to be snuck in as an earmark bundled in with more “critical” legislation. Congress has turned into a sea of abuse where power and partisanship is the drug of choice; I always try to keep TDA apolitical but I am depressed that this legislation had been held up until now and passed for all the wrong reasons.

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Hope and change. Bah! Straight talk express. Boring. I'll put the nation on the road to recovery!

Fact: I drank on duty.
Fact: I inhaled... deeply.
Fact: I did not have sex with that woman, at least not that I can remember.
Fact: I'll not raise your taxes, but I will make you attend a meeting and share.

Sad Fact: I'm a recovering alcoholic with no political experience, but I'm still better qualified to run the country than our current choices.

Check out the video to see me on the campaign trail.

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I try to keep the discussion at The Discovering Alcoholic apolitical as possible. Obviously this is not possible one hundred percent of the time, but even so I am usually successful in maintaining a focus on the issue instead of the ideology. But not today.

While many of you may be familiar with the AA logo, let me assure you the large “A” represented in the image above is not in any way related. It is the symbol for Anarchism; while there are many anarchist flavors in general they agree upon the belief that society should be organized without a nationalist state. Even though historically those who would create an even worse totalitarian state have wielded similar useful idiots as their disposable foot soldiers of chaos and revolution, these days they seem to be little more than marionettes- media and policy distractions for well funded political movements (cue the irony).

When I came across this article on the news feeds called One for the Resistance, I thought it rather strange that I would sympathize with an anarchist group that had figured out that yes, alcoholism and substance abuse even degrades the effectiveness of a clueless protestor. Quickly though the article took an ominous tone as the author described how the movement could take advantage of alcoholics and addicts to further their own cause. They have now stumbled into my bailiwick and are definitely in a relevant topic… ergo I am allowed to say the A is for asinine.

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