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There’s nothing like a good peace rally to make me feel homicidal. It brought back all the memories of pointless exercises in feelgoodism from the past Gulf War. Ah, Liberals. How I want to grab them by the neck, throttle them, and scream YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT!!!!! Of course, I am exactly one of them– another ineffectual bourgeois dork who thinks she has the right answers.

This was a peace rally, that is– the main focus was on getting troops home from Iraq. Of course, all the little one-cause fringe groups were there trying to get people to sign petitions and send postcards to get Nader on the ballot, or Kucinich on the ballot, or for people to stop eating animals, or whatever else. First of all, it seems a bit disrespectful to go to a rally and try to convert people to your way of thinking, when it has nothing to do with what the organizers are making a feeble attempt to organize. I mean, I don’t go trying to convert people to the New Life FEllowship during catholic masses, even though they’re all Christian. Oy.

My red star tattoo made me an instant target for every Socialist Worker and Communist group worth their weight in home-printed periodicals. How ironic is it that the only ones seeming to be looking out for the Plight of the Working Man are more ineffectual, overeducated bourgeois windbags? Where are the workers themselves? Oh yeah, they’re trying desperately to make ends meet, and probably voting for Bush along the way, thinking that the promise of tax cuts will allow them to buy a shiny new pickup truck. Call me a pessimist (which thanks to the quiz I took last entry I now know I am), but I don’t see this class starting a revolution. It’s gonna take a hell of a lot of inoffensively-bearded, peace-sign-wearing Boomers to light the fire under the collective Proletarian ass so that they won’t have to do anything themselves. Kinda sucks when the Oppressed Worker is a gun-toting, NASCAR watching, Miller Lite guzzling American, who thinks your group is a bunch of crackhead Commies, eh?

I talked to one Socialist Worker guy, who was a member of something called the Young Spartans or the Young Spartacus or Young Sparkyists or something– he preached about armed worker insurgency as he kept a wary eye on the crowd for the “opposition.” He finally clarified who the “Opposition” was, after declaring that they were all around the rally. The Opposition is the Liberals out there who want Kerry to win the presidency. Oh Jesus fucking Christ– can’t we even agree on who the Enemy is?

I guess that’s always the problem, one that Bush and his cronies have managed to at least get right– uniting people against a common enemy (real or perceived) is the best way to go. If Terrorism is the new Communism, then who are the Communists going to rally against? Maybe the Left should invent some scapegoat so universally reprehensible, everyone can get behind one enemy. Make it Bush (though most claim he’s just a puppet), make it Ashcroft (although I think he may have gotten points for saying the “f” word the other day), make it Cheney. Let’s just agree on something.

The other this is, according to ME (and we all know that I’m always right)– the problem is greed. Basically, the world is owned by large corporations who really don’t give a shit about anything but making money. Yeah, like this is news. However, the political machine, the media, cruelty to animals, dependence on fossil fuels, all that crap is just a by-product of this. If everyone would just put aside their differences and band together and sing “Kum Ba Ya” and hold hands and realize this, maybe something will get done. Without big corporations to monopolize everything, there would be no need for the government to constantly make sure they are well-fed and happy, and things would be a lot happier. So no matter how much you preach about how the world would change if everyone just wore organic hemp, ate tofu all day long (yeah, that’s an industry too!), skateboarded everywhere and voted for Nader, it’s not gonna happen. Go boycott cranberry juice, refuse to watch FOX news… whatever. Whatever helps to alleviate your White Middle Class Guilt is fine with me, just try to think about a revolution and stop fucking whining. Please?

Yeah, I know you’re sick of my dumbass political rants, but whatever. It’s my blog and I can whine if I want to!