I am just so sick and tired of the Democrats' spinelessness! Why will no one in America stand up and fight for what we’ve lost—what we continue to lose day by day?
- Habeas—that’s your right to come before the courts when they haul your ass to prison, people. Do you understand what it means to toss that particular right out the window without a peep of protest? That’s the right that stands between you and a prison of undisclosed location, which we have now, for the first time in the history of our country, sidelined.
- Torture—that’s the thing that we do now, but we used to not do because we’re supposed to be a civilized country with respect for human life and dignity.
- Privacy—that’s what we you used to have before the government claimed the need to eavesdrop on our phone conversations in the name of “safety.”
- Choice—that’s the right our Senate ceded to the states in that bit of political theater called Alito’s confirmation hearings.
Where is our outrage? Why aren’t we marching in the streets, demanding the impeachment of this moron? King George has set us back hundreds of years, economically, culturally and socially, and yet we just sit idly by and watch it happen. And you know, I’m not out there marching, either, and I honestly don’t understand it, except to say that it just feels like, what’s the use of marching alone? And yet most Americans I know feel much like me. Angry. Angry, scared, and dismayed.
Today, when I heard Al Gore on the radio talking around the fact that he thinks King George’s pants are on fire, and Jimmy Carter on MSNBC backing down from the fact that he possessed the balls—if only for a moment—to say that this Administration was “the worst in history,” I thought, maybe that’s it. Maybe if any of our leaders had the cojones to stand up and speak out, then maybe the people would begin to understand that our country is in crisis. Maybe if our leaders had the courage to take to the streets the people would follow. But the Democratic leadership is too polite for its own good, which is bad enough, but they’re too polite for the good of the country, and I believe we are in need of some good old fashioned bad manners. Everybody keeps acting like what’s going on is reasonable and it’s NOT. It’s simply insane, but we’re all trapped in some bizarre media charade where everyone has their part to play, and no one wants to ruin the show.
Will somebody besides Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert stand the fuck up, please?
