Thursday, 16 April 2009
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Conservative Protests
I don't have any great love for the mainstream dogmatic Democrats, but it's interesting to note that during the Bush years they usually complained about things that were actually happening. Republicans seems to have resigned themselves to making up fake shit, then complaining about that is if it were real just because it happened in their imagination.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/tea-party-photos-tax-day_n_186752.html
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I wish I had gone down the the capital yesterday and gotten into it with some of the protestors. For kicks, really.
The logic behind the signs in the Huffington Post slideshows is what makes me think our species actually can be broken down into at least two sub-species.
It seems to me that what we have here is a serious case of misguided energy. Today I watched (and posted on facebook) a NYT-produced video regarding the typical experience of widows in Afghanistan and was rendered even more horrified than I already am about women's rights in certain countries. If the people in these images devoted their efforts to simply raising awareness regarding such issues, US-based global humanitarian aid as we know it might be dramatically different. But we're working with what I contend to be a sub-species incapable of logic. Of course, there's certainly the question of hypocrisy here; I might grapple with this in a post of my own.
I would LOVE to drag one of these individuals to the front of the crowd of which they are part and ask them specifically what they are protesting; I doubt many could give a well-reasoned answer. I would love to tell at least one of them to vote in a manner that supports their position on taxation instead of wasting perfectly good poster board and sharpie ink. I've long felt that protests are just an excuse to revel in party vibes/a groupthink euphoria. Watching various videos regarding yesterday's events, I find myself feeling no differently.
I chuckle every time a republican says "tea bag," and I do it doubly whenever they use it as a verb. Do they not know what it means?!