6/29/2004

RIGHT WING ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Right Wing radio and media: COLOR IT BORING, REACTIONARY, AND INTELLECTUALLY BLAND EMPTY Ann Coulter, while funny, hasn't had an idea that would improve anyone's life other to give people who are unemployed real jobs. Hannity is the opposite of whatever liberal he decides to attack; another vacant lot posing as a luxury condo-complex. Tell me Laura Ingraham has ever said anything worth remembering besides "ok, I'll fuck you". In fact they are all broken records of old old old rants and excuses. Only Limbaugh with his sense of humor and satire, together with his really good mind, keep him fresh once in a while. He stands alone on the Right.

You have to have something besides "get the government off my back" and "reacting" to every liberal or they have nothing. The real problem with conservatism is failure to show that their real purpose is to create more opportunity for everyone and that these opportunities will raise incomes for everyone. I think we have a situation now where 2% at the top earn fifty times what the 20% at the lower end can earn. Eventually this won't compute, and since the poor all have guns and will use them if the right guy comes along, we should all wake up. Now.

I had the "chance" to drive down Vermont Avenue in LA the other day past the down at the heels pathetic looking whores, the horridly painted motels and filthy looking housing and I asked myself the question: "Would I fight for this way of life?" The answer was "No fucking way." What we on the so-called "right" have to figure out is how to make freedom of opportunity available to everyone. Ask yourself this: What do you think it takes to open up a hot dog wagon in your city? Just a little wagon with hot water for the dogs and a place for buns. I'll tell you. Bribes, insane environmental requirements, more money than you may be able to make back, and layer after layer of regulations. Here in LA the poorest people get around that stuff by selling barbequed illegal food from their back yards, food that may be contaminated, but it tastes good and it's cheap. The cops are told to close them down. Instead they drive by and talk to people hoping they won't have to come back and cite them, knowing they have no money and won't show up in court. That means a warrant will be issued for their arrest and they will go to jail for selling food out of their backyards. If conservatives can't act on the local level to improve people's lives, conservatism is nothing.

Right now it's nothing.

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