Last Tuesday, I went out to see a movie with my friend Jim.
At dinner we talked, and he started a rant: "Where are the angry people?" We spent most of the time talking about gays, but we wondered where were the angry women, blacks, and Hispanics? Muslims? Athiests? The abstract, intellectual part of my brain is fuming: GW is an idiot who keeps managing to make worse and worse decisions at every turn. What do I
do in response? I stick my head in the sand and pretend that I don't notice it. I have stopped reading the newspapers limiting my intake to the top 8 headlines a day on
my.yahoo.com
But I realized that is isn't just me. Most liberal people I know are intellectually disgusted with our current government but there isn't much fire behind that revulsion. Why is that?
The simplest, easiest explanation I can propose is that being angry at America is unsexy. I say that carefully -- unpatriotic is one thing but being a mad woman, being a mad homosexual, or otherwise just venting your spleen isn't
sexy.. Writing
juvenile songs about terrorists is, but making
decks of cards opposing the Iraqi war is not.
I guess the best I can hope for is Angelina Jolie
telling people about the situation in Sri Lanka.
One of the other issues is that there are no sexy democrats. I mean the repubs have
Ahnold, we have
Lieberman who is just shy of being a republican. (To boot, the DNC's website also has TWO pop-up ads, which is almost enough to push me into being a libertarian.) I am holding out hope for
Howard Dean.
But I am really curious was to what the other
Jim, Patitio, and of course
Joel has to say on this topic.
Why are liberals limp?
