|
rally for ultra ultra ultra soft liberals to make it publicly known they have no problems with anything now bush has been replaced by a nicer celebrity and they promise to keep their head down and stick to watching the daily show and eating junk food and being loveably ironic about things like they've always done.
oh and btw if you protest things like wars and austerity measures you're a fucking nutjob, you would be better using your indoor voice to get your message across, not that we'll listen since we're busy on the sofa pampering ourselves with ice cream and comedy central.
this could have been an oppurtunity for the left to organise in movements with clear agendas behind vocal leaders, to consolidate and network and decide once and for all to stop rolling over on its back and letting fox news and the tea partiers get away with it. start getting militant and angry and fighting back against the tea party candidates insane and backwards agenda. instead they just rallied around feelgood liberalism and confirmed their commitment to impotent humour and dreaming of being celebrities. they'll end up at home depressed and alone in front of the tv again. what a waste... and its not like they don't have the numbers, 215,000, that dwarfs becks get down on your knees and beg to god who speaks through my dementia rally.
i should clarify my problem with stewart is that his brand of politics is anti intellectual, anti thought, anti organisational and has only ever served the smooth running of the neo con agenda. im not against taking the piss, and im not against everything he does. but if all you are prepared to do is crack wise like a good little hedonist who knows his place, if you aren't prepared to actually fight the fuck back and get show no mercy to the right who most certainly are showing no mercy to you, then you are weakening opposition, not strengthening it.
|