La la la la I can’t hear you la la la
Why do people think that protests work? Can anyone name a single protest in the past thirty years that did anything other than annoy people? I sure can’t. I’ve been tossing that thought through my mind for the past couple of weeks, and can’t come up with a single productive outcome from any protest. Not a single one. Every one I can think of has been ineffectual to the point of invisibility.
Protests are so common, so ever-present, so identical that they’ve lost all meaning. They’re no longer a statement about anything other than “we don’t have jobs.” Jobs other than being a professional protester, which is equivalent to professional pain-in-the-ass.
Free Tibet! Really. I had no idea that Tibet had been occupied by China. I’ll run right home and write a letter to China straightaway.
No more war! Well. Never heard that before. Thanks for striking a chord there, Yoko.
We hate Bush! News to me. I thought Leftists were all in favor of the Right. Glad you set me straight.
I am hard-pressed to think of any protest that hasn’t been done about seven thousand times already. We get it. You’re pissed off, and you want INSERT_CAUSE_HERE to INSERT_ACTION_HERE. Well bully for you. Your trite, overplayed rhetoric has swayed me as I’ve never been swayed before. Now get off the sidewalk so I can get back to work. Unlike you, I actually have something useful to do.
This post brought to you by the jack-holes gearing up for protests at the Republican National Convention here in the Twin Cities. Because nothing says “I have nothing to bring to the table” like a bunch of idiots with hand-made signs and bullhorns.
