I am certain HBO’s new series The Newsroom will not run its course. It may not last longer than 8 episodes, because it is too real. It tells the truths and fires off memes that need to happen. I wish a real newscaster would pop off the way that Jeff Daniels does in the first ten minutes. I wish someone would stand up and say the truth that nobody is willing to acknowledge.
America is not the greatest country in the world. We haven’t been for the 37 yrs I’ve been on the planet and I’m guessing even longer than that. It took an HBO drama from Aaron Sorkin to give voice to what many people are thinking.
I think the problem that we make as Americans is falling back on that old trope of America the Beautiful instead of falling back on that old ‘we gotta fight to be the best’ attitude that was most prevalent after, well, we shed ourselves of Britain.
Liberals are losers. Hell, I’m a liberal and I admit that those in that particular party take a beating because we take everything the other party throws at us and turn the other cheek. You’d think they’d call us the party of Jesus Christ, but it is the other way around. Republicans are idiots and savages, because the party caters to the base and the base is uneducated, racist, full of expectation, and entitled. If this offends you then you’re either part of that base or you presume to be. However, if you’re reading this you are probably dead wrong and, IMHO, a closet liberal who hasn’t figured out that the party you pledge to isn’t the party that fights for you. They never did. You aren’t the one percent.
I want to be a part of an America that pushes the world forward into something wonderful. I want to be a part of America that views hope and change as shining qualities and not political gambits that can be easily crushed by terrible political ads and dead-end campaigns. I want to believe we can be better and I want to work my butt off to make those changes.
Just tell me when we can get started.