The first thing I'd like to point out is the truth of my previous blog in regards to the Speech-Comment Negative Correlation Especially Applicable to Younger Voters Principle (SCNCEAYVP) (seen-see-ah-why-vip) detailed in paragraph one (1), because as my shortest blog it did in fact receive the most feedback (there's some other blog that's got four comments, but I think one of them was mine).
In light of that, I'm going to abandon the typical "subject-predicate" form of structuring sentences. Stop using subjects. Just write important things. You can call it incorrect, I call it streamlined.
Newsweek article says we're living in the past. 60s. Talked about the worst week ever, starting with March 31, 1968. LBJ says he's not running again. MLK's assassinated. Bobby Kennedy tells some inner-city Indianapolis blacks that America needs compassion after informing them of the assassination (no e-mail, few phones, that was the first most of citizens had heard of it). 110 cities riot that night, Indianapolis isn't among them.
Jena 6. (Schools still segregate, and so do towns.) Pat Robertson sues Guiliani regarding potential legalization of same-sex marriage. (Gays are still under fire.)
America likes to get hung up on the past. 68 or 01, it doesn't matter. The Republican platform statement Gwaltney passed out references "terror" or "terrorism" or "terrorists" 33 times in those 3 pages. Get out the 60s, but get out of 2001 faster. Segregation and civil rights are decades-old issues. They don't go away when the interest does. War isn't a necessary issue at all. Take away the media, public loses its entranced captivation, America wouldn't fare worse. With the right minds, the middle class would probably receive some extra money, Social Security would strengthen a bit, welfare a little bit, too, perhaps.
These issues aren't blasts from the past as my 80s comrades may have said. Nothing's a blast from the past because we're still in it. We need some blasts from the present though, and one from the future would be kickass right now. What would it say?
[Soft voice entreating from the wings]: "Fix things at home, fix things at home!"
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I completely agree. We need to leave behind the idea of fighting the terrorists and return to our own country. The issues we confront everyday are shot to the back because Bush only worries about what is going on in Iraq. (hey that sentence just rhymed)When reading the Party platforms I also noticed the extent on which the word terrorism. Also it was like they were trying to guilt trip the American public for our doubtful pride so 9/11 had to come up a few times. We no longer our fighting for our country or even revenge, but fighting for Bush and his colleagues to get oil. We need the next President to come in and take us out of this mess and focus more on all the problems we have in our own country.
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