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Awesome
"I can’t control what people think this was. I can only tell you my intentions. This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith, or people of activism, or to look down our noses at the Heartland, or passionate argument, or to suggest that times are not difficult and that we have nothing to fear– they are, and we do. But we live now in hard times, not end times."
Good quote and good line at the end.
But that's to say it was really the only quote from the whole rally that I cared for. It wasn't the action on stage that mattered for me, just that a call for everyone to calm down and recognize your enemies as not really extreme but sensible human beings who also believe they have a good answer to the problems that face us all had almost 150k people show up in that spirit.
You could write this about conservatives. But instead of the prevailing attitude being: "we're not stupid because we don't take ourselves seriously." rather you'd say, "we're not stupid because we bow to common sense and time tested ideals."Quote:
Originally Posted by Warpe
Really, a mean and clever piece that doesn't realize it's talking about us all.
I read a third of it before stopping as I'm losing my sense of the author.
I found the article good even though it did kinda touch me in the tender spots since in some ways I was once the South Park Republican and now a Daily Show Democrat. Overall, I really have no clue what to think about the whole thing. People with brains are pretty much split, so far
Part of me finds the rally awesome, Jon and Steve are stepping their games in the best way they can, and that naysayers are missing the forest for the trees by blaming superficialities. OTOH, part of me thinks that non-militant strategies are doomed to failure and due to playing softball we're aiding and abetting our own generations' collective shift to the right and authoritarianism just as the previous few generations have unwittingly done so.
good post, im only half way through and its been pretty epicQuote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
the remember 1-31-07 with the mooninite is prob my fav.
that or the "if your beliefs fit on one sign, think harder"
MSM is missing the point, for the most part...which is understandable, given that Stewart indicts them as being part of the problem.