South Park and political discourse
Mar. 15th, 2002 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pearwaldorfCody and I were watching rented South Park episodes last night (Chin-pokomon and Save the Rainforest in case anybody cares) and there was this little documentary at the end of the video about Trey and Matt and the show. And of course, there was the inevitable discussion of the content of the show and protests thereof. They interviewed a guy from Morality in Media and he just went on and ON about the bad effects of the show and why it was bad and aevil and etc etc. About a third of the way through the rant, we started making those "wonk wonk wonk wonk" noises that passes for adult speech on Charlie Brown specials.
That's how I feel about the political situation right now. You have a bunch of people, conservative and liberal, wonking at each other but they're not actually getting anything done because they're too busy looking at their wallets and portfolios and seeing how they can increase what's inside them. It's a very (God forbid) cynical sort of view, but I see very little to contradict it. To blame only one side or the other is to completely and totally ignore half the causes of the problem. The Republicans will continue to pursue their corporatist policies, and the Democrats will continue to be patronizing milksops who use the guise of helping the disadvantaged to get into power and pursue corporatist policies. (For the differences between them, read Cody's very abbreviated account.) One would think that if people (i.e. those on Capitol Hill) really wanted change, they'd have gotten off their asses and changed something already. But they don't.
That's how I feel about the political situation right now. You have a bunch of people, conservative and liberal, wonking at each other but they're not actually getting anything done because they're too busy looking at their wallets and portfolios and seeing how they can increase what's inside them. It's a very (God forbid) cynical sort of view, but I see very little to contradict it. To blame only one side or the other is to completely and totally ignore half the causes of the problem. The Republicans will continue to pursue their corporatist policies, and the Democrats will continue to be patronizing milksops who use the guise of helping the disadvantaged to get into power and pursue corporatist policies. (For the differences between them, read Cody's very abbreviated account.) One would think that if people (i.e. those on Capitol Hill) really wanted change, they'd have gotten off their asses and changed something already. But they don't.
