Much of the anger one sees in lefty blogs is a result of our almost total dismissal by the media and political elites. Our voices have not been heard. Our concerns not taken seriously. Our views are belittled. Our motives are questioned. Our patriotism is disparaged. Glen Beck is given a forum on CNNHeadline News and ABC's GMA and we should remain silent and take our medicine like good American children always have. An ANC-Disney owned radio station transmits political pornography, and when they are called out, go after the blogger who outs them to the world. For some reason, we are to play nice by rules designed to keep us from having a voice.
Except those rules are disappearing. Liberals are finding their voice in a new medium. Just as right-wingers got in on the ground floor in AM radio after the demise of the FCC's Fairness Doctrine, lefties dominate the political discussions and, just as important, organizing tools, availiable through the internet. Not only do we set the agenda, we mobilize people to give money, volunteer time, and keep an eagle eye out for the ways the system is ginned against us.
But the anger is still present, because, despite being right - and consistently right - on any number of issues, not the least of which is the whole Iraq mess, we are counseled by our "betters" to make sure we don't allow our anger get out of hand:
Liberals were "right" about Vietnam, but they have paid a price ever since because they were so obnoxious about their correctness.
See? We were obnoxious about the fact that tens of thousands of Americans and over two million Vietnamese were dying for no reason. We were obnoxious about the fact that we were being lied to, then lied to about the lying. We were obnoxious about the fact Robert McNamara knew the war was lost, but prosecuted it anyway. We were obnoxious about the fact that Kissinger and Nixon illegally invaded Cambodia and Laos, then lied about it, then lied about the lying, then lied about lying about the lying. Kissinger continues to lie about it. He writes whole books to justify his lying, and is an advisor to President Bush. Those who call Kissinger and Bush out, however, are counseled to not be "obnoxious".
There is a two-word answer to these people, of course, which I shall refrain from using here, as I have already been called to the carpet for being snarky about Pres. Bush. Rather than limit myself to these two words, I shall quote from my vote for a future poet laureate, Maynard James Keenan of the band Tool, and the song "The Pot" (lyrics courtesy of Tool Shed, by James Maynard Keenan):
Foot in mouth and head up ass
So what you talkin' about?
Difficult to dance 'round this one
'till you pull it out. boy.
You must have been so high.
--
Who are you to wave your finger?
So full of it
Eye balls deep in muddy waters
Fuckin' hypocrite
Liar, lawyer, mirror show me what's the difference?
Kangaroo done hung the guilty with the innocent
Now you're weeping shades of cozened indigo
(musta) got lemon juice in your eye
When you pissed all over my black kettle
In the future, that is my response to those who complain about lefty anger. We are angry, and our anger is based upon very good reasons, not the least of them being the death and destruction being wrought in our names and against our express wishes and without our consent.
Politeness has failed. Playing by the rules has failed. Sometimes you have to shout in order to be heard. Sometimes, you have to allow yourself to be angry.
