We don't agree on much of anything.
Sure, we all pretty much agree that the war in Iraq was a crappy idea and that black, brown, red, yellow, gay, straight, fuzzy, transgender, little, fat, homeless, naked, Canadian, and people wearing turbines in airports should, more or less, have the same rights as every other group you can think of.
We definitely prefer our protesters naked and, under certain
circumstances, in a cage.
We agree that Bush is bad, Clinton was good and Obama is better. Beyond that, however, now that we've got our guy headed for the White House it's hard to get a group of lefties to agree on much of anything.
During the last eight years, we could go to any given right wing blog, newspaper or News Channel and watch the righties agree on just about anything that got thrown at them. Iraq? Kill 'em all! The Patriot Act? Hell, if you ain't doing nothin' wrong then you got nothin' to worry about. Illegal wiretaps? See "The Patriot Act". Harriet Myers? If she's good enough for Dubya, she's good enough for America.
And so on.
All us blue boys and girls got together to boost Barack over the top on November 4th, but after that, and a brief honeymoon period, it was time to get to work microanalyzing the decisions and the press-releases and calling out the O-Man if he's not doing right by us.
Rick Warren? Our people could go through half a dozen appletinis debating whether or not that guy's a racist pig or just some guy that made a mistake. Same goes for the proposed national service program, Israel/Hamas policy, Venezuela, Rahm Emanuel, Hillary (sweet Lord, NO ONE can agree on Hillary), Harry Reid, Tara Reid, and whether or not Michael Moore is a genius or just another crazy left-wing fat man.
Tara Reid has nothing to do with this essay.
Why is this so great?
Because when Blago fucks up, we don't all rally around him just cuz he's blue. Because Sanjay Gupta doesn't get a free pass from the left, he's gonna get debated and discussed and people are gonna learn about him and decide whether or not having him as the next C. Everett Koop is a good thing. Because, in all seriousness, we all know that debate is what this nation was founded on, and that blindly following the leader gets us right here...
...thousands of times over.
And that's a high price to pay for blind faith.
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