I've joked before, the world would be a better place if the death panels were real. The thing is, Democrats do their damndest to be nice, despite that killing them. Bipartisanship can go get fucked by Godzilla. More importantly, though, liberals are individualistic. You ask ten liberals their opinion on something and you'll get eleven opinions. You ask ten conservatives, you'll get the same answer every time. The truth of the matter is, liberals suck at dogma. We are awful at unity, and while there is good from that (creativity, for one), it means we suck at politics. Additionally, intelligence makes that even harder. Idiots can be unified via fear. The intelligent will see right through it.
However, there's hope. This is the death throes of a dying generation, and one I won't mourn. The sixties wounded Conservatism, the 70s and 80s healed it, and the 90s emptied a tommy gun into it. The 1990s was the last time blaming music, video games, film or television was an extremely mainstream thing. That may seem minor, but it's a giant step forward in the culture war. They've failed to convince people that our culture is evil and causes death. They failed to win. In the 1970s, bands like Kiss and musicians like Alice Cooper were seen as horrible by the right wing, and protested violently. In the 1980s, it was bands like Twisted Sister, and Dee Snider actually went and testified to Congress (and mocked Al Gore's wife to his face) in one of the best speeches given to them, and he was in the same clothing that he wore at a concert the night before. In the 1990s, well, Mortal Kombat, Doom and Marilyn Manson (although, protesters have been showing up to his shows again lately). If you told the protesters in the 1970s that Alice Cooper and Kiss would be mainstream, they'd call bullshit. If you told them in the 1980s that Twisted Sister would be mainstream and norma, they'd call bullshit. If you told them in the 1990s that Mortal Kombat and Doom would be outdated and silly, and Marilyn Manson is (intentionally, without changing himself) mainstream, they'd flip out. The fact of the matter is, that which is shocking is mainstream a decade later (and may be mocking the mainstream, like when America's Next Top Model was allowed to use "The Beautiful People" because he knew they obviously didn't know it was insulting them).
The most evil thing Osama ever did was 9/11, not just for the death, but for the fact it delayed America's societal advancement for so long. Had it not been for him, we'd be so much further ahead. Bush would have been the first four year president since Bush. 9/11 wasn't an inside job, but it was the most lucky Bush ever was. Or, really, Dick Cheney. Dicky was running the show, and he set that up himself. Dick Cheney was in charge of selecting Bush's VP, after all. Osama was the hiccough that fucked shit up. We're slowly getting back on track, and advancing as usual. We're a society you can't even shock, at this point. Shock's deader than dead. All you can be is confusing. That's the biggest sign of open-mindedness. Entertainment Tonight did a story a few years back (I swear, it was accidental that I even saw this) where they were talking about the FCC. They proceeded to swear like normal people during it, and during the credits, the hosts went something along the lines of "So, do you think they believe it was real?" with the (obviously bleeped) reply being "They'll never fucking know". It wasn't a scandal or controversy. Imagine them doing that in the 1990s.
As the elderly die, and the oldest generation is Generation X, we'll see the world change. Remember, Generation X is what gave us the 1990s. They gave us Doom, Mortal Kombat, classic MTV, Industrial Metal, South Park and more. Stewart and Colbert are X. Obama is X. So, imagine how things will be when they're the ruling class, with them being the tenured ancient ones in Congress and the Senate, and the majority of voters are X, Y and Z?
