mojotek's Journal: Conservatives featured on MTV?

I saw one of those 'MTV News' stories two days ago about how young conservatives are organizing around the country and crashing anti-war protests. The subject matter alone was pretty shocking to me. I'm sure some MTV exec figured it would be good for their channel to appear 'fair and balanced' by representing the right to some extent.

Now what really bothers me is that the college students who were being interviewed for the piece were just as naively biased as the Republican house wives who are currently married to the corporate big wigs who are stealing our country right out from underneath us. This idealism they use to justify everything from stealing workers' retirements to sending troops to die to win another campaign is absolutely ridiculous.

Now, I'm a moderate liberal. I believe that we need a strong government to support our society. I also believe in free enterprise and a strong military. But, being the raging realist that I am, I also believe that we will never have a society devoid of corruption and malfeasance. Which means that we will ALWAYS need checks and balances that work. Government administrations will always need to be watched, and corporations will always need to be reigned in. There is no other way it can be. The human condition forbids it.

So being a moderate liberal has been very frustrating. The far left and the far right are fcuking morons. They have to argue the most extreme versions of their beliefs in order to be heard. One end is a bunch of idealistic hippies that believe everyone is inherently good and we should work towards socialism, the other end is a group of religious fundamentalists who are being led by puppet strings attached to their morals toward corporate slavery and fascism. Neither outcome is very appealing to me.