Rally to Restore Sanity works

The Rally to restore sanity drew tens of thousands of people to the National Mall in Washington, DC, and maybe a couple thousand Civic Center Park in Denver today.

What was, however, a liberal party? or a manifestation of what is reasonable? A little of both. Most people who spoke in Denver, and most of the signs waved towards the liberal bent, but when talking to people, many of them actually express a feeling something like this, "Why can not people disagree friendly discussions about it instead of yelling and drawing lines in the sand? "Dan Lee, who ran for Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper from last time and is already running to succeed him next time, said who wants to rule for doing the right thing. "If you take care of workers with a living wage, which will create good karma that will help transform the economy," he said.

An excerpt from USA Today, quoting Stewart:

So what exactly was this? I can’t control what people think this was, I can only tell you my intentions. This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith or people of activism, or to look down our noses at the heartland or passionate argument, or to suggest that times are not difficult and we have nothing to fear. They are and we do.

But we live now in hard times, not end times. And we can have animus and not be enemies. But unfortunately, one of our main tools in delineating the two broke. The country’s 24-hour politico-pundit- perpetual-panic conflictinator did not cause our problems, but its existence makes solving them that much harder.

The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems, bring them into focus, illuminating issues — or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire, and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything, we hear nothing. …

Not being able to distinguish between real racists and tea partiers, or real bigots and Juan Williams or Rick Sanchez, is an insult not only to those people, but to the racists themselves who have put in the exhausting effort it takes to hate. Just as the inability to distinguish terrorists from Muslims makes us less safe, not more. …

That being said, I feel strangely, calmly good, because the image of Americans that is reflected back to us by our political and media process is false. It is us through a funhouse mirror, and not the good kind that makes you look slim and maybe taller, but the kind that gives you a giant forehead and maybe an ass shaped like a month-old pumpkin. We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is, on the brink of disaster, torn by polarizing hate.

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