Not-really-political-ranting
Oct. 19th, 2004 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jedishampooBecause I am not usually very political at all. I live in a fantasy world. :) But today I believe I will flip the bird at political ranting.
I made the mistake of agreeing to accompany my friend Stephanie to see Michael Moore speak at UN-Las Vegas a couple of days ago. It was only five dollars, and she was a film major who loves his films, and had no one else to go with her.
Now I was expecting to see political people out there, given Mr. Moore's outspokenness and the subjects of his films...but it was INSANE. People both lined up and chasing us down to sign petitions to GET BUSH OUT OF OFFICE, to recruit us to call people urging them to GET BUSH OUT OF OFFICE, to purchase T-shirts with stupid-looking pictures of the President, etc.
And he said nothing about his movies; his whole talk consisted of Bush-bashing, in the most puerile way. "Did you see how he drank his water during the debate? hee hee ho ha! Isn't he dumb? Don't you all hate this jackass? Give me a cheer for hating the Jackass!" Now I am no Republican. I am for gay marriage, legal abortion, etc. But I am really no Democrat either, come to it.
Who do these people think they are convincing? I just hated to see such stupidity and rampant hate-talk. They were not witty at all, not intelligent. Neither side is better than the other in this respect. If there were fence-sitters, the people they need to convince, then don't you think a juvenile fracas like that would only frighten people away from what they're trying to say deep down about their political views?
Even the very liberal Stephanie wanted to escape early. ::Sigh:: I want the election to be over.
I made the mistake of agreeing to accompany my friend Stephanie to see Michael Moore speak at UN-Las Vegas a couple of days ago. It was only five dollars, and she was a film major who loves his films, and had no one else to go with her.
Now I was expecting to see political people out there, given Mr. Moore's outspokenness and the subjects of his films...but it was INSANE. People both lined up and chasing us down to sign petitions to GET BUSH OUT OF OFFICE, to recruit us to call people urging them to GET BUSH OUT OF OFFICE, to purchase T-shirts with stupid-looking pictures of the President, etc.
And he said nothing about his movies; his whole talk consisted of Bush-bashing, in the most puerile way. "Did you see how he drank his water during the debate? hee hee ho ha! Isn't he dumb? Don't you all hate this jackass? Give me a cheer for hating the Jackass!" Now I am no Republican. I am for gay marriage, legal abortion, etc. But I am really no Democrat either, come to it.
Who do these people think they are convincing? I just hated to see such stupidity and rampant hate-talk. They were not witty at all, not intelligent. Neither side is better than the other in this respect. If there were fence-sitters, the people they need to convince, then don't you think a juvenile fracas like that would only frighten people away from what they're trying to say deep down about their political views?
Even the very liberal Stephanie wanted to escape early. ::Sigh:: I want the election to be over.
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Date: 2004-10-20 02:20 pm (UTC)Point out the facts (well, as much as anyone can interpret them). Point out what you think are the consequences. But the radical stuff has got to stop.
Moore lost me a long time before this latest "documentary."
I hear that...
Date: 2004-10-21 12:31 pm (UTC)Now I want to see Team America: World Police so I can see Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin and Tim Robbins puppets be blown up (from what I hear).