Why Are You So Ignorant?
I've never had an opinion on Cindy Sheehan's futile attempt to bring our troops home by camping out in front of Bush's playground. Whatevs. But then she started this running against Nancy Pelosi shit. Don't get me wrong - I'm not partisan and I'm no big fan of Pelosi - but I get a little miffed when people spend engergy and/or money fighting for futile causes. As much of a pragmatist that I am, I understand activism. I understand that sometimes it take personal sacrifice to raise awareness to a cause. But the movement to impeach Bush? Impeachment is a penalty of vanity. It has no real effect. And to impeach a President who is essentially a lame duck, tanking in the polls, and facing a Democratic Congress? The impeachment of Clinton was a waste of taxpayer money, and the biggest exercise in useless partisan politics in my lifetime. Not that I'm a die hard Clinton fan, but my god, we've got more important things to worry about. I don't like Bush, but waging a multimilliondollar impeachment offense on a President with a year and a half left seems like the biggest waste of time since the last American Idol vote. The fact that Pelosi is refusing to engage that kind of partisanship makes me think she's got the right idea.
I guess what I'm getting at is that I'm sympathetic to futile sacrifice for a principle to stand for that principle. But when you're so blinded by partisan rage that you can't see the forest for the trees, it's time for you to disappear. You're doing a disservice to your cause. The only way to defeat your enemy is to rise above them. Scream impeachment and you'll end up like Newt Gingrinch. Political capital is just like any other money - a penny saved is a penny earned. A penny wasted is a fortune lost - just ask John McCain. In the meantime, if the liberal activists want their party to win - and looking at the conservative candidates right now, they might - they should just shut the eff up. If you want to employ me as a political strategist strategerist, please email justshuttheffup@seriously.com.
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I was so excited when she said she was retiring from politics. I should've known it was too good to be true.
I think you and I have had a history of agreement on this topic. The current state of political protest is sorry--all the papier mache puppets and anarchist-wannabe teens and the sketchy, rootless, disorganization that makes it so you can't have a mainstream "We're Not Stupid and this War is Asinine" gathering without it becoming a tentpole for Maoist trustfund fucks.
If you go back and watch the political actions of yore, especially those from the Civil Rights movement (MLK in DC is a good example), you get a totally different feeling for what's effective: stoicism, resolve, wearing your Sunday best, showering, more listening than screaming--in short, a massive display of human DIGNITY instead of human DESPERATION. No one takes the desperate seriously, but if you prove yourself to be upright and forthright and essentially serious, the dipshits in power start to worry.
Ultimately, I think it boils down to this--too many people willingly perceive themselves as not having any power, or at least lacking the right to wield such power, so they come at dissent all wild-eyed and crazy--it's like they know their efforts will be futile. I don't know if just people are lazier or if they have no faith, but once your present your demonstration as an exercise in futility--it's OVER. You LOST.
People need to have a mental renaissance on the subject of political power and where it is supposed to spring from, and once they do, they might confront the corrupt in a more powerful and dignified way. This Cindy Sheehan woman doesn't have a hope in hell--she was obviously convinced that her cause is lost and that the only way to go is to follow an escalating series of hopeless steps. She'd have been better served to cede her spotlight to other moms just like her--instead she's bumrushing Congressional offices and getting down with Huga Chavez. She's betrayed kids like her son by making the dignified act of beseeching them homeward into an exercise in total fatuousness.
Someone needs to remind pro-impeachment folks who will be President if they succeed. Might stifle the enthusiasm a trifle. (hey that rhymed)
who knows? maybe history will judge cindy sheehan to be our generation's rosa parks...
I've always considered Sheehan to be more about making herself famous, and less about her "cause". This latest move kind of cinches it for me.
And if Cindy Sheehan is ever considered our generation's Rosa Parks, the Good Lord should go ahead and have Steve Carrell build an ark in real life for the impending flood to wipe out humanity.
sheehan is a slopeheaded tard and ugly to boot.
she has zero redeeming qualities.
it should have been her that got killed and not her son.
oh yeah, keepin it real.