Rude Pundit: Asking For Decency From An Indecent People

[Hissyspit]

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2011/01/asking-for-decency-from-indecent-people.html

1/13/2011
Asking for Decency from an Indecent People:

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We are not, though, a nation of the goodhearted people Obama presented us as. We have become a nation where there's so much noise that only the screams get heard. We fall into a couple of camps: in one, the vast majority of the country, the apathetic who have decided that it's all white noise and just want to be left alone while they try to get or keep a job, pay the bills, and live a life that doesn't suck; in the other, that small tincture bottle's worth of Americans who engage, who understand that democracy is a responsibility and not just a term that you might learn for a high school social studies test. And in that bottle, there's the drops of poison, the people who do not seek to better the nation at large, who see only individuals rather than a society, who, in essence, hate the concept of a more perfect union.

Those are the savages. Some of them are elected savages. Some of them are the media savages. Some of them are the kind of savages who anonymously post things on blog or website comment sections because seeing their vileness in print makes it appear like valid discourse. The savages will not be converted.

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In other words, President Obama needs to speak, as he did last night, to that apathetic majority. It's what he did in 2008. It's what he needs to do now. He can't attempt to unify people again, he can't rouse people from their TV and iShit-induced slumbers, and leave them to make their way without direction. Leave the savages to fight their internecine wars. They will tire or go extinct. The rest of the nation wants to know what needs to be done and how they can be part of doing it. Again.

The Rude Pundit (who, yes, does write with anger and uses violent imagery, and does so unapologetically because he does believe in a more perfect union and despises those who seek to wreck it) has a favorite image from last night's rally, one that, to his mind, says something about our potential future: Seated in the front row was Gabrielle Giffords' savior and intern, Daniel Hernandez, who also spoke beautifully about the meaning of the events of last Saturday. He is a large, gay, Hispanic man. Seated behind him was Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, who has opposed rational immigration measures and held up START until he was appeased. The coverage on ABC showed Kyl constantly having to contort himself to look around Hernandez in order to see the stage.

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[handmade34]

1. WOW

what imagery and analogy

"...Daniel Hernandez... is a large, gay, Hispanic man. Seated behind him was Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, who has opposed rational immigration measures and held up START until he was appeased. The coverage on ABC showed Kyl constantly having to contort himself to look around Hernandez in order to see the stage..."

[firehorse]

2. yes Obama, speak to the apathetic majority

please

[el_bryanto]

3. I want to believe that Obama is more correct than the Rude Pundit

I want to and generally do believe that our political opponents are generally good hearted people who want what is best for the nation.

But after seeing the Conservative response to that masterful speech, I find myself more in Rude Pundits camp.

Bryant

[janet118]

4. How much of the indecency is bought and paid for?

If the corporate money were pulled from these whores, would this ugliness ebb? Follow (and cut off) the funding for these right-wing political groups and the hacks they support.

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

[Sinistrous]

6. Kyl ! I wondered who that was, sitting on his hands when the

rest of the audience was applauding. That rude, ignorant moron...