Rant by a Web-Artist
There’s little in life that scares me, or has me worried (aside from Vomit, Choking and Ninja Leprechauns) but the current political climate does both of those things.
Some would call the debate going in the US ‘heated’ or ‘impassioned’. I call it dangerous.
You can argue a point with someone without hating them. You can disagree with everything they say without throwing a brick through their window.
Can’t you?
Look at someone like Glenn Beck, who is so full of spite and anger, and incites his viewers into a frenzy. On paper, the Tea Party Movement is a peaceful group who opposes government spending. In reality, many Tea Party Movement members are extremists filled with hate who are on their way to becoming vigilantes, attacking anyone on an opposing side. You also have Al Sharpton, who will use any tragedy to his own advantage.
I’ve listened to senators, congressmen and governors say things I wouldn’t utter in while in a drunken stupor in a bar.
It should be noted that I place the blame on both sides of this latest row.
The worst part of all of this, is that the majority of what people are slinging is not based on facts, but instead on assumptions, hearsay and whatever hate-speak is being published/produced as ‘news’.
This needs to be stopped before it gets worse. A country should be led by debate, facts and bi-partisanship.
Not a mob carrying signs and pitchforks.
– Because I can.
Quote of the Day
“It might seem I don't think our country's so great,
But intolerance, bigotry, greed's what I hate.
Most folks are honest and decent and true,
Peaceful, compassionate, good through and through.
That's what it means to be red, white, and blue,
And if you don't think so fuck you”
– America, by Stephen Lynch
The End
P.S
Lockerz is fail D:
17 Comments
I couldn’t agree more
But actions speak louder than words don’t they?
Yeah but debates are more civilized and are respected.
And I agree about the media part. But they kinda control the way we think now.
Yeah but debates are more civilized and are respected.
So? Whatever gets the job done.
Yeah but debates are more civilized and are respected.
So? Whatever gets the job done.
Would you kill because someone didn’t agree with you?
I love Least I Could Do, but I’m not current.
In other news, morons who don’t think for themselves, AKA SHEEP, are the worst in my opinion. They don’t contribute to anything. I bet you half the people in the “Tea Party” don’t even know what the bill does in detail. It’s just CHANGE IS BAD, I WANT TO LIVE LIKE A UNINSURED HICK.
Yeah but debates are more civilized and are respected.
So? Whatever gets the job done.
Would you kill because someone didn’t agree with you?
See how you just jumped to the like worst outcome.
No, I wouldn’t kill someone.
As for the media, ehh it only slightly changes my opinion sometimes.
The thing about the media is it tells me exactly what I wanna hear sometimes.
But I don’t watch the news much after my English teacher read us a story about Christine Chubbuck. (The news reporter who committed suicide live on television.) That shit’s just crazy.
It’s America, what should people expect? I do look forward to the day when all the hard working, honest goodwilled, kind hearted people push back the tide of greed and hatred. No offence to any Americans, but it seems none of the good people are in any position of power. 🙁
I met some good Americans and wished they were the congressmen and senators.
In my view all the way across the pond, bi-partisanship is rubbish. Especially with America’s two party system. Some things are too important to compromise on, considering how crazy some of the right wingers are.
Right wingers aren’t the only crazies about. Rachel Maddow? Nancy Pelosi? The only reason you’re more familiar with right wing nutjobs is because you read liberal material. Most people do. There’s also the share of left wing citizen nutjobs.
True, I guess.
But I can’t think of any real examples of the left doing serious damage like the right can.
True, I guess.
But I can’t think of any real examples of the left doing serious damage like the right can.
Seriously. I’m conservative myself and they’re taking it much too far.
Politics isn’t a competition and they’re treating it that way.
This might be irrelevant, but apparently the Texas Board of Education tried to cut Thomas Jefferson out from their history textbooks, and whitewash or minimalize coverage of the roles of ethnic minorities in American history. Am I the only one who finds that kind of depressing?
Why’d they try to cut Jefferson?
It was worse in the 19th century.
Why’d they try to cut Jefferson?
Apparently some of his beliefs or policies or whatever don’t “fit” with Texan beliefs, or something like that. Kind of like how a lot of bio textbooks teach Creationism instead of evolution. :p