10.01.11
Nugent wonders why there aren’t riots
Today Howard leads off his column with a quote from New York mayor Michael Bloomberg:
New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg stated that he’s worried that American young people will begin to riot in our streets because of their unemployment.
While the mayor and I disagree on most things, he might be onto to something here.
The rest of the column indicates he’s largely unaware of the growing protest on Wall Street — by mostly young people in the Occupy Wall Street campaign.
Nugent believes the young should riot against Obama (unsurprising, he believes everyone must riot against the president):
Young people are starting to figure out that our president conned them in the last election, claiming that he could fix everything, make the world safer, create jobs, provide for everybody, redistribute earnings, coddle the unemployed, etc …
Many of the people in the Wall Street protest are unemployed. Per se, they are not protesting the President. They are protesting at the seat of capitalism before the wizards of finance who tore apart the US and world economy in 2008 and are busy going about it again. It is the biggest and most deserving target.
Since Ted cannot figure out young Americans — he semi-regularly insults them in his column for a variety of imagined sins from playing too many computer games to being lazy — he bags on them again.
For playing too many computer games and having a liberal education:
Where are the protests by today’s unemployed and underemployed young people? Why aren’t they demanding answers to fundamental questions about their future? Why aren’t they yelling that hope and change was a con job? Why aren’t they demanding answers to the reality that their generation will be the first in the history of America not to have a future at least as good as what their parents enjoyed?
Who knows? Maybe they can’t break away from playing computer and video games long enough to look around at their condition and the condition of America. Because of the toxic, liberal education they received, maybe they haven’t figured out how America is supposed to work instead of how our president wants to transform it into something that would inspire our Founding Fathers to call for a second American revolution.
Today they forced the closing of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Find the photos of crazy mean and stupid ol’ Ted playing his acoustic guitar, perfect for use in “Tough Crowd Boogie.” Sepia-toning him was the right touch.
Keywords: pyschopath, the psychopath vote