The problem is that shrillness and hyperbole of that type cheapen the call to action when those situations really do occur. In my mind, it's not only a betrayal of the real freedoms we do enjoy in our system to make those claims but a betrayal of those who do need those calls to action.
I can certainly see what your saying here. The problem is that my party's been asleep since 1994 or so, and they've slept through the polite beeping of the alarm clock, they've slept through the fire engines racing down the street, and it seems like getting them to pay attention needs me to be jusmping up and down on their chests, banging pots and pans and screaming loudly.
Maybe its because political rhetoric has, in general, become so binary, so polar, that there seems only to be lethargy and panic left. Maybe I'm just so burned out that the only way I can muster the energy for the fight any more is on the rush of pure adrenaline.
Bush's victory in 2004 really shook my faith in America, and Americans. It was inconceivable that a man who had made such a botch of it all could win, and it seemed to me that he won largely of the Gay Marriage issue. That troubled me more deeply than anything because it said to me that an awful lot of my countrymen were willing to accept Bush's domestic policies, most of which are worker-hostile to the nth degree, if it meant that they could interfere with the lives of strangers.
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The problem is that shrillness and hyperbole of that type cheapen the call to action when those situations really do occur. In my mind, it's not only a betrayal of the real freedoms we do enjoy in our system to make those claims but a betrayal of those who do need those calls to action.
I can certainly see what your saying here. The problem is that my party's been asleep since 1994 or so, and they've slept through the polite beeping of the alarm clock, they've slept through the fire engines racing down the street, and it seems like getting them to pay attention needs me to be jusmping up and down on their chests, banging pots and pans and screaming loudly.
Maybe its because political rhetoric has, in general, become so binary, so polar, that there seems only to be lethargy and panic left. Maybe I'm just so burned out that the only way I can muster the energy for the fight any more is on the rush of pure adrenaline.
Bush's victory in 2004 really shook my faith in America, and Americans. It was inconceivable that a man who had made such a botch of it all could win, and it seemed to me that he won largely of the Gay Marriage issue. That troubled me more deeply than anything because it said to me that an awful lot of my countrymen were willing to accept Bush's domestic policies, most of which are worker-hostile to the nth degree, if it meant that they could interfere with the lives of strangers.