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July 18, 2004
Stat-us-QUO! Stat-us-QUO!
I don't understand this. A group of Young Republicans is planning to join in on anti-GOP protests and protest the protestors. If this makes you confused, you're still a step ahead of these Young Republicans.
First of all, the Right doesn't protest. They don't need to. They're the party of the comfortable and the well-heeled. There's no great tradition of conservative folk-protest music ("We have the plant...and we have the power"), no notable marches (you think they're going to give up their weekends in the country?), and except for the rabid anti-choicers, not much makes them take to the streets. And now that they control all three branches of government, and most of the media, what are they after?
Second, they can't (or, more likely won't) see that those of us against the Iraq "war" aren't against all war. Well, most of us. They crashed their first anti-Iraq-war rally with signs that said "''Except for Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism, War Has Never Solved Anything". Iraq has done none of these things; we don't know what it's done, and that's why we're against it. (And incidentally, which war, exactly, broke Communism? Vietnam? Grenada? Falkland Islands?)
Finally, it seems a bit odd that young, testosterone-fueled guys who are adamantly pro-war would spend their time messing with the hippies, when the Army needs new recruits to join the actual fight. I guess maybe the difference is that the hippies won't shoot at them.
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