Thursday, February 08, 2007

A Passing Notion...

What if we all stopped being 'political'? What if 90% of Americans stopped talking about their politics and simply 'lived' their politics?

By myself I am just a citizen. Like any citizen, I can walk into any Starbucks and buy a macho venti femmi-latte expresso vermouthie... if I have $16. Meaning, of course, that money talks. It's the $16 that counted, not my status.

Here's another thing... remember the last time you were running late, driving on the freeway at 11:30 p.m. on a Wednesday night? The posted speed limit was 65, but you were going 80, and you weren't even the fastest car on the freeway. Even the big rigs were going over the speed limit. 'We, the People,' had, at that moment, decided that 65 miles per hour was NOT the law. Democracy in action. Apologists for the Constitution might say it was anarchy in action, but they wouldn't have, if they were running as late as you were...

Getting 'We, the People' to use their power as 'We, the People' (or 'Us, the People' in the South and Mid-West) would have to start small.

What's the smallest, most innocuous thing 90% of us would agree on, and actually carry out that would piss off both political parties ? And you guys remember, it has to be something women would actually go for, sober...

2 comments:

Nessa said...

I'm personally boycotting all Tom Cruise - related things. Is that a start?

Bert Bananas said...

Ms. Nibbles, would that it were so...