Politics-O-Rama!
Quick, highly-charged statements on political issues which, due to laziness, are not backed up with facts or logic.
It’s frustrating for me, too. But unless you’re organizing, marching, and shouting in the streets, I’m not impressed with the “Democrats have no balls” argument. Politicians are as ballsy as the people force them to be. Teabaggers are, frankly, lower than cockroaches on the food chain, but they got out there and made their… Actually, I don’t know what they stand for. All I know is that liberals and progressives should be just as visible, just as unpredictable, just as batshit crazy.
Climate change deniers are scary people. They envision the most wide-ranging conspiracy in the history of mankind. Faked research and results from scientists the world over. Phony photographic evidence of disappearing polar ice caps. Fortunately for them, polar bears are starting to crack under the pressure from these sleuths. Era of unreality is right.
Gay marriage in New York. Yeah, this pissed me off. What got me just as much as the actual decision was the reaction by the very people whom I agree with. For instance, the phone numbers, emails, and faxes of the members of the New York State Senate going around so we can harass them after the vote. Guys? This tactic works much better before they vote. All that anger could have been used to give rights to people, but instead it was used to just blow off steam.
