In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Men
--by Gary Hubbell
February 9, 2008
There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain.
Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians.
There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard....
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If "just going to vote" is all you can find time for citizen responsibilities (and you're not one of our poorer citizens who legitimately are busy making ends meet), then I'd suggest you've got misplaced values or something's wrong.
Perhaps that's too harsh, but that's my initial reaction, from someone who does all of the above...
Besides, wasn't it some of you who, not too long ago, were bemoaning the lack of citizen involvement?
And by "tool," I meant someone who is all talk and no action. Not a fool.
And it has nothing to do with agreeing or disagreeing. If someone disagrees with me, I'd prefer that he stay home and not get involved in civic life. It makes my protest easier, more clear cut.
But from a citizen's viewpoint, I'd rather see people get involved with what they believe, even if they disagree with me.
Consider yourself informed.
I tire of people who hold to empty beliefs that require no sacrifice for our nation or anything else.
I tire of people who don't know about others making assumptions that they make "no sacrifices" when they don't know what the others have or haven't sacrificed, what they're willing to sacrifice.
Some of us sacrifice a little money we could make on our jobs to take time off to protest evil policies, we sacrifice time that we could spend playing with our families or time that others spend at the gym or on the gamecube so we can educate ourselves about issues; so we can make informed decisions; so we can make sometimes difficult choices; so we can get arrested in acts of civil disobedience; so we can travel to countries as missionaries for peace, laying our lives on the line for the cause of justice and peace; we sacrifice, although we count it all to joy, because it is a Good, Righteous way to live.
Nonetheless, we are sometimes maligned for trying to do right, sometimes ridiculed, sometimes called traitors or heretics. So be it.
But THESE people are the people I hold up as valuable role models. The Frederick Douglasses, the MLKs, the Rosa Parks, the Berrigan Brothers, the sweet peace-loving nuns and priests laying their lives on the line, the Oscar Romeros, the Cindy Webers (my pastor) and all the other heroes of the faith at my church.
I fully understand feeling too busy to have time to go to another protest; I fully understand that protests are not the only or even the best way to effect change; nonetheless, those who strive for the Right are the ones who I honor and respect and hope to emulate.
That's what the word on the street is anyway (see Mark, see Marshall Art, see Coulter, see Rush, etc, etc...)
Number three, this post just makes you sound like a xenophobic dinosaur that can't adapt to change.
Seems to me they just want to blame others for their problems. My heart bleeds for this bunch of crybabies.