Energizing today’s youth.

Remember tho old coke commercials? “I like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony?” Don’t you wish we could do that now? Well Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are holding a rally in Washington on Saturday, Oct. 30. It’s being called “joke rally” by many pundits, but I wonder if it will play out as such. I seriously hope it doesn’t. The Democrats are completely wigged out on it because they are saying it will detract from the “get out the youth” vote. I guess they aren’t familiar with mass transportation getting them back to their states so they can vote three days later.

Glen Beck, as usual, went on a rampage about it, saying Stewart and Colbert are trying to energize the youth of this nation and turn them into Liberals and Progressives. I for one hope to hell they do, because the old guard, the GOP, or Grandstanding Old Pricks, sure wont do anything if they get back in power. And the current crop of Democrats are so fucking scared of losing their jobs, they’ll say and do anything to please their voters. And this president is about as useless as tits on a chicken. He made so many great impassioned speeches about changing the way Washington works, and what he was going to do, we all were taken in. Since then, he has turned into a timid mouse, who hasn’t a clue what to do anymore. I should feel sorry for the guy, but he wanted the job, got it, and has, in my opinion, failed the nation. He’s still better than Bush, but not by much.

What I like about both Stewart and Colbert is they both are not afraid to point out the hypocrisy of both sides: Fox, and it’s continuing cherry-picking of comments by Democrats; Keith Olbermann and his “worst person ever” awards, along with Chris Mathews and his interrupting anybody he disagrees with. While both lean towards the left, their both a credit to the political system, and offer way more truths than you’ll get on either FOX or MSNBC. As such, I can see where both parties, as well as the Tea Party, are scared of the rally. Heaven help them if the youth rebels and starts voting in people who can actually think, as well as act, for themselves. People who look at the lizards sent in by business as what they really are: sycophants with money as their root belief. People who will look at both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and realize they are there to ensure this country is run By the people and for the people, and not for some business that fronts them mega-bucks to swing votes their way.

I doubt we can’t teach the world to sing, in harmony or not, but we can support the efforts of those who want the youth of today to take over the failed leadership of this last generation, and bring respectability back to what once was a proud nation, not the one we have now, divided by hate and fear.