Hello all,
If you blinked, you missed "One Nation", the penultimate rally/response of the left to Beck's "Restoring Honor" conservative rally. For the most part it was a mixed bag of SEIU and Acorn left-overs, socialist shills and squabbling tribes of self-assessed victims of one sort or another. All gathered together, bused into the area, and on display for you and me. Quite a bit different from the average conservative rally mind you.
And oh the things we saw!
We saw the young sans self-discipline, bedecked with multiple piercings and more ink than the New York Times Sunday edition, apparently on one last field trip before flunking out of school. All one can hear when viewing them in their Che Guevara T-Shirts is "Look at me Daddy! Look at me Daddy! Look at ME!!!!" We get it, your pachouli scented parents didn't hug you enough and wanted you to be free to express yourself and show what you really are -- a loser.
Mission accomplished.
Side note: I did Tweet on this, mentioning that "The 'One Nation' rally left the grounds looking like that nation was Laos, 1973". If that is the sort of snark you enjoy, feel free to follow me on my newly revised Twitter account. This is one of my older accounts but brought back into service (long story). Just search for "irritablepundit" or look me up at http://twitter.com/IrritablePundit . The snark flows freely, usually in the evenings as I wrap up the day.
Back to the rally! What else did we see?
We saw brave lines of union members, their presence as much about the money they were paid to attend as the message they professed to bear.
We saw the professional paranoids. Stridently they railed against a corrupt system run by shadowy agents of "Fill-in-your-favorite-conspiracy-theory-here"!
We saw the older ne'er-do-wells enjoying the chance to kvetch against the unfairness of it all. They were angry about the fact that others have more money, or a job at all, simply because they gave into "The Man". So they lustily raised their voices and thin-wristed soft fists in outrage that those others were unfairly compensated -- just for working hard.
Finally we saw the die-hard ideologues.
A few were fighting for Gaia! Screaming until they were hoarse but inexplicably leaving their trash on the ground as they left.
A larger group called for Socialism! Yet all of their slogans inevitably devolved into, "Give us your stuff ...ummm ...JUST BECAUSE!"
A confused few were fighting for the rights of the transgendered! Fascinating to meet a pseudo-man who was born a lesbian women trapped in a man's body. Which confused me as that makes him a man who is attracted to women, yet somehow gay and therefore discriminated against in some fashion that frankly eludes me. I am not actually homophobic and genuinely appreciate our Log Cabin brothers and sisters, but that one comes close to giving me a migraine.
Which makes me grumpy, but as being grumpy is my shtick anyway, it's no biggie.
But I digress.
Through it all the real issue on display was not the silliness of their charges, nor the way they destroyed the grounds on which they stood, the real issue on display was jealousy.
They are jealous that the current firing of popular imagination is due to the Tea Party.
They are jealous that the movement and momentum of another is forefront to their own.
They are jealous that the country has turned away from them.
They are jealous of you and your drive.
Their jealousy is eating away at them. Their energy is lagging, their reserves are low. They can not understand why no one is listening to them and they had a collective tantrum in Washington. They stood together and shouted, "Look at me Daddy! Look at me Daddy! Look at ME!!!!!"
I looked. I'm unimpressed. Cut your hair, get that ring out of your nose, put on a nice set of clothes, and get a job.
Do that, and I'll look at you with pride.
See you next week!
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