Pops talked to me today about how what I write to him sometimes about Bush 'makes him sad.'
It is hard to know where to start here, but if you are not sad about what has happened under Bush you either haven't been paying attention or... I don't know. You tell me. I don't hate on dudes having strong views on things. Generally I would prefer people have an educated view, but having views-cool. Anyway, the problem I see is that this guy believes in some pretty extreme stuff (wanting to write prejudice INTO our Constitution, f-ing the environment without worries, etc, etc, etc) which, like I said, cool, but dude- you are supposed to be representing a whole nation. The rez 'won' by a very close margin and now he is going around like God placed him where he did and he will piss on international organizations and fuck the environment dead... um, whats up? There are majorities and minorities in this country (just wanted to make sure-- claiming that America is 'white' is sort of stupid) and if you are a good prez I would think you would try to represent a good handful of us. You havent been rep'pin me too good, mr rez.
So I am sad on this level. The popularity of Passion of the Christ makes me a little sad too. Seeing the war pictures and thinking about that, a year in now, makes me sad too. Our society, so violent. I wish the messages of violence that we have in our society could be changed to something else... all of it hurts my brain. Ah, but I am such an idealist. Will it ever work out like I think it is going to? Some days I am so sure, some days I just don't know.
Smile ;)
It is hard to know where to start here, but if you are not sad about what has happened under Bush you either haven't been paying attention or... I don't know. You tell me. I don't hate on dudes having strong views on things. Generally I would prefer people have an educated view, but having views-cool. Anyway, the problem I see is that this guy believes in some pretty extreme stuff (wanting to write prejudice INTO our Constitution, f-ing the environment without worries, etc, etc, etc) which, like I said, cool, but dude- you are supposed to be representing a whole nation. The rez 'won' by a very close margin and now he is going around like God placed him where he did and he will piss on international organizations and fuck the environment dead... um, whats up? There are majorities and minorities in this country (just wanted to make sure-- claiming that America is 'white' is sort of stupid) and if you are a good prez I would think you would try to represent a good handful of us. You havent been rep'pin me too good, mr rez.
So I am sad on this level. The popularity of Passion of the Christ makes me a little sad too. Seeing the war pictures and thinking about that, a year in now, makes me sad too. Our society, so violent. I wish the messages of violence that we have in our society could be changed to something else... all of it hurts my brain. Ah, but I am such an idealist. Will it ever work out like I think it is going to? Some days I am so sure, some days I just don't know.
Smile ;)
