The Providence Journal: January 17, 2008
There’s a new breed of American voter these days. Privately
they’re sub prime, publicly they’re tightwads. Foreign issues demand a front
yard “Not on My Watch” sign, but local issues are consigned to backyard
neglect. Dressed like a fair trader,
they shop like free traders at Costco and Wal-Mart.
They talk like a Democrat, but live like a Republican.
They work all day pursuing hard-nosed private sector
profits, but once stoked, prefer pie-in-the-sky cocktail conversation about
public sector programs. They drive SUV’s to work instead of public
transportation, but at night watch “Planet Earth” on Discovery and talk
furtively about warming icebergs and penguin habitat.
Where have all the Republicans gone? Investment bankers just
love Obama! Soccer Mom’s are with Hillary! Lawyers love John Edwards going
after the rich and powerful! It takes one to know one to sue one?
Yet this presidential season within a writer’s strike, wrapped
around an unpopular president, is a long road filled with pretend talk.
Just as no one will admit to voting for George Bush, they
also will not acknowledge watching Reality-TV. Well someone in the form of a
voting majority did and does! The point may be humiliating, but the votes, be
they tallied for Idols or Losers, by clickers or chads, tell the story that
reality ultimately sells.
That reality is that we are a nation of buyers and sellers,
not savers and doers. Talk is cheap, and trendy, just like primary elections.
Eventually, the conversation will matter. The general election votes will count
for something, and then will the real American Idol please stand up!
That Idol should represent an economic and pragmatic America. Not a
political or religious one. We vote with our wallet and clicker, and not
necessarily for right or for wrong. We’re against the war but we’re for the
troops. We support the local retailer but spend it on the multinational. We
speak one thing publicly, and eat something entirely different in private.
We want to look good, be liked, and be right, but mostly to
advance our own interests! Do we really want a Democrat to make amends with the
world through appearance and speech? Or will we choose not to apologize, and match
action with deed to stay a course we have affirmed already once just three
years ago.
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Posted by: Lambro | March 12, 2010 at 11:16 AM