(A Person Is Not An Animal! -- Kurt Weill / Berthold Brecht, from the musical, Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahogony [1929-1930])
Jeff Jarvis "is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program and the new business models for news project at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism."
He's also pissed at the Kabuki circle jerk going on in that Village On The Potomac.
So I was angry. Watching TV news over dinner — turning my attention from scandals in the UK to those here and frankly welcoming the distraction from the tragedies in Norway — I listened to the latest from Washington about negotiations over the debt ceiling. It pissed me off. I’d had enough. After dinner, I tweeted: “Hey, Washington assholes, it’s our country, our economy, our money. Stop fucking with it.”The Very Serious People in Washington are, even now, determining that "shared sacrifice" means digging up the body of FDR to burn it in public, give the Rethugs what they want (even more, perhaps), and ensure that Our Top 2% are not made cross, are soothed and contented, and have Treats -- always.
...That’s all I was going to say. I had no grand design on a revolution. I just wanted to get that off my chest. That’s what Twitter is for: offloading chests. Some people responded and retweeted, which pushed me to keep going, suggesting a chant: “FUCK YOU WASHINGTON.” Then the mellifluously monikered tweeter @boogerpussy suggested: “.@jeffjarvis Hashtag it: #FUCKYOUWASHINGTON.” Damn, I was ashamed I hadn’t done that. So I did.
The fact that Our Leaders have ignored creating jobs, and concentrated instead on Fluffing The Banksters and doing everything possible not to piss off any rich people, tells you that they're arrogant enough to ignore the 76-plus per cent of Americans who will be screwed by what they intend to do.
The poll percentages of voting-age people who disapprove of both parties (and the number who believe the Democrats, and Obama, aren't liberal enough) have never been higher since political opinion polls began to be taken. I'd recommend Our Serious Leaders pay attention to the Twitter machine, even if they believe it is Unserious and just a toy for dirty hippies and fringoids. I truly suggest it.
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