Oh My God the Dead Have Risen and are Voting Democrat!
Is it just me or does music suck these days? I happened to flip on MuchMusic the other day and I was shocked, yes shocked I tell you, to find that the beloved music station of my youth had become a haven for annoying pop tart wannabe celebrities acting like they are so cool simply because they are a VJ. These gurus of cool are surrounded a legion of nice looking teens seemingly rented from "trendy" shops of Queen Street west whose mission in this plain of existence seems to be nothing more than cheering like moron whenever Avril, Good Charlotte or Usher is in the building getting their asses kissed by every station employee in sight. And if it seems like I'm going off on rant here, trust me I have a point.

And you know what group is just as bad as the MuchMusic crowd? The Leftist movement. Yes that is right, I'm calling out all the Left wing. Here are my issues with the left:

1. Grow a set of balls: Why is it that there are so many right wingers out there with their own newspaper columns, radio shows, books and hell, networks? Because in battle between reasonable people and nutcases, the nutcases take the fight to anyone who disagrees with them. Disagree with Rush or Ann Coulter and your e-mail inbox will soon fill up with mail from every yahoo with a radio, yet the left never takes the fight to these right wing fire brands. Bill O'Reilly threatened to hurt the son of a 9/11 victim because the guest was upset Bush had used his parent's death as an excuse to go to war and what happened, the left said that Bill is not a nice man. What should have happened is the next left winger on his show should have told Bill that if he doesn't stop being an asshole, he or she will take him out back and beat the crap out of him.

Why do that you ask? Well because these neocon mouth pieces are cowards who love to send someone else's sons off to fight in the ways they promote, yet they've never served in the military. They're bullies, and they scream at guests who disagree with them on their distasteful programs because no one ever stands up to them. These people know they are political hacks and liars, so calling them political hacks and liars doesn't accomplish much, you've got fight fire with fire, not with polite op-ed columns.

2. Develop your own beliefs: Say it with me now, "It is ok to disagree with Noam Chomsky." Now say it again and again and again and again. Remember it is the right wing that is suppose to blindly follow their leaders, not the left wing. It is not enough to simply question the government, one must also look at their own views on the world and develop those views themselves rather than just accepting the principals of someone else as your own.

For example, I still consider myself a "left leaning" person yet I believe in the death penalty. I have major issues with how it is being used in the US (where it's application seems based more on the defendant's wealth, status and sadly colour than the crime) but I still think it is a valid option in some cases. However I have yet to be offered a show on Fox News nor do I have a strong urge to movie to Texas. See having some views that differ from what other "left" wing people generally believe won't hurt you, in fact it means that you're thinking for yourself.

3. Sports and Religion are ok: The 700 Club, Bob Jones University, The Moral Majority, Bin Laden and other people who take religion far too seriously are the problem, not religion.

As for sports, well there is nothing wrong with enjoying an afternoon at the ballpark or watching the game on TV. And even if you don't happen to enjoy sports, that guy from Alabama you're trying to get to vote democrat loves his college football but won't love you when you look down upon him simply because of how he spends his Saturdays. You cannot simply dismiss another person because their hobbies are different from yours.

4. Last but not least: Stop the intellectual circle jerking. If you want to change the world or even your world, stop acting like you're god's gift to modern politics, you're not. It's nice that you're in an Arts program, that you use big words and you've won some kind of political appointment, but you're never going accomplish anything if you just sit around with the same group of people all day and agree on everything you say. The Right has become the big tent movement, they don't care how you look, how you dress or even who you are, as long as you hold the same ideas as they do and watch Fox News, they love you. If the left is going to ever going to get anywhere, it needs to stop treating people like dirt because they eat meat, haven't read No Logo or *gasp* might own stuff from the Gap.