Having actually included MAGNET as one of my favorite things (and I promise that’s not sucking up, I really love the publication), you can imagine how chuffed I was at the prospect of a guest editorship. Over the past, well, several years of the Sharp Things‘ existence, Eric Miller has been a friend and an advocate, even when no one else was, so I’m honored to be able to ramble on a bit about a bunch of shit that I dig, because I want everyone to know about it and, more significantly, because it makes me feel important. 😉 Over to you, me …
OK. Let’s talk politics. Sorry, I know this is uncomfortable terrain, but fuck it. I like it. In fact, I love it. Before 2000, I tried desperately to avoid the subject, partially because of my ignorance of it. But, the palpable events that followed that particular election were just too obvious to keep me swimming in the warm pool of oblivion. I’ve recognized since then, that we live in a cold, cold place. It is not what it thinks it is. It does not know what it is. It is fractured. It is bullshit. It is perpetually ignorant, racist, misogynist. It is our United States Of America. And before you get all up in arms, take a look at who you are and what you struggle with everyday. What is happening to your family, your money, your time, and you let me know whether you are on the right side. So, if I come off like a traitor, who gives a shit? I don’t even know what this is enough to feel connected to it, enough to feel ashamed. If you’re fed up with what you hear on Fox News. If you’re tired of the hypocrisy of the GOP, a party so up its ass, it doesn’t even realize how truly nefarious and destructive its collective voice has been, then fucking say something. Say it with your votes, say it with your mouth—at parties, on the internet, to the douchebag next to you on the train who just has to espouse everything Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Coulter, whomever, said today. It’s politics, right? Well, we’re at war. Fuck ISIS. We’re at war with ourselves. Grab your bullhorn and fight.
