How The Left Got It’s Groove Back
I’m certainly past due for another landmark Man::Under::Stress investigative exposé, something to blow the bedcovers off of some aspect of Bush.gov’s distortion of reality, but I’ll be honest, there’s just too much to choose from these days. I can’t keep up. I’m like a kid in a candy store, and I can’t make up my mind what to eat next, there being such an over-abundance of sugar-coated deceptions. So I’ll just let Michael Moore say his piece. Bushites, run for corporate cover, because it looks like it’s possibly the beginning of your well-deserved end. Maybe I’ll actually get into the movie this weekend. Last weekend only left me waiting behind 100 people ticketless in the rain. One thing I have heard was that Bush was not only in bed with the Saudis, but actually had sexual relations with Bin Laden himself at some debauch moment in his oh so debauch past. Cheney likes to watch.
Let the counterpropaganda begin.
June 30th, 2004 at 8:02 am
Without having seen the film, I long for more sober leftist heros. It’s the whole problem with Kerry; yes of course the current administration is whack, but where’s the alternative to believe in? More than pulling for a Bush loss in the upcoming election, I’m pulling for an end to the two party system. A mass realization from various corners that our currents system doesn’t work: from the subversive actions of the executive branch, to the ‘bought and sold’ miasma of the legislative, and the mass plea bargining that goes on in the juditial (along with the rise of the incarceration industry) that basicly states that ‘justice’ is a caseload the system can’t handle, but there’s plenty of revenue to be generated from the actions of suspect morality.
This film isn’t gonna convert anybody, just fuel the various fires - liberals too lazy to try and study the depth of the problem(s) will have new half truths to misquote, and conservatives will have another reason to hate liberals while feeling rejustified in their callous interpretation of ‘reality’. Somewhere out there I can hear the argument “but it’s good for the masses to be shocked, and wake up and get pissed!…by any means necessary”. But what good are finger-wagging and fortified debates around the water cooler gonna do? America needs new means by which to channel it’s anger….there’s another quote for my Homeland Security file-
June 30th, 2004 at 12:19 pm
I agree wholeheartedly about our shameful 2-party system. Unfortunately, I do not see it going away any time soon. It will take a more charasmatic independent than Nader or Perot to break the trend.
I think F911 could possibly jolt into action a lot of undecided/apathetic peeps. That’s wishful thinking of course, but look what AM radio has done for the Repubes?