Tuesday, June 29, 2004
There's a place in this world for the angry young man....
Thanks Billy for the title inspiration.
This piece by Alan Elsner in Reuters diagrams how Democrats are tapping into the anger within the electorate against Bush.
Elsner parallels this with the anger the electorate felt toward the left in the early nineties. Rush Limbaugh and other conservative media folks tapped into this anger and it set their careers. I also recently read a piece about how FreeRepublic is beginning to wane...while sites like Daily Kos are on the uptick.
Michael Moore and Air America Radio are the new rising stars...tapping into this anger at the right. I've never seen Democrats and the left as a whole so united.
There's a saying about the Arab culture that goes something like, brother against brother, brother and brother against neighbor, brother and neighbor against city, brother and city against country, brother and country against other countries.
It's striking how US citizens have a very similar mentality in a way. We definitely come together as a group against things much more often that we come together for things.
One of Kev's favorite sayings is "Democrats form their firing squads in circles." I've always chuckled when he mentions it because it's so true. This time tho they seem to have finally managed to form a straight line...directed at George W Bush.
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This piece by Alan Elsner in Reuters diagrams how Democrats are tapping into the anger within the electorate against Bush.
Elsner parallels this with the anger the electorate felt toward the left in the early nineties. Rush Limbaugh and other conservative media folks tapped into this anger and it set their careers. I also recently read a piece about how FreeRepublic is beginning to wane...while sites like Daily Kos are on the uptick.
Michael Moore and Air America Radio are the new rising stars...tapping into this anger at the right. I've never seen Democrats and the left as a whole so united.
There's a saying about the Arab culture that goes something like, brother against brother, brother and brother against neighbor, brother and neighbor against city, brother and city against country, brother and country against other countries.
It's striking how US citizens have a very similar mentality in a way. We definitely come together as a group against things much more often that we come together for things.
One of Kev's favorite sayings is "Democrats form their firing squads in circles." I've always chuckled when he mentions it because it's so true. This time tho they seem to have finally managed to form a straight line...directed at George W Bush.
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