The interesting thing about liberal ideas is how incredibly enticing they are. They just feel right — a fact that leads to countless pseudo-intellectual mouthbreathers jumping on board with belief systems that fly in the face of logic.
Case in point — one of my favorite bands, System Of The Down, just came out with a new album and one of the songs on it is BYOB (bring your own bombs). Witty.
Anyway, the song is completely awesome and I love the lyrics as well. I actually totally love the band because of its politics. I don’t agree with the politics, you understand — I simply respect them for communicating in the way that they do.
So the song in question’s main lyric goes like “Why do they always send the poor?” — a reference to the war in Iraq obviously. Well, when you hear it you are just filled with thoughts of, “That’s so true!” and “Yeah! Why do they always send the poor!?!”
It’s quite powerful stuff, this music — and it just gives me pause as to the seductivness of these sorts of political beliefs. There are hundreds (or thousands) of people walking around after hearing this song thinking about how messed up the Bush administration is for sending the poor to fight in Iraq. The song is a resounding success in this sense, I can assure you.
The problem with this viewpoint is simple — it represents an utter lack of logical thought..
I actually have a theory as to why the poor are always sent to war — they f*cking enlist in the Infantry.
Could that be a potential cause? Could it be at least a catalyst? A contributing factor perhaps? I don’t know…it’s just that, in my mind, when someone walks into a recruiting station and asks to join the Army, and then that same person is then asked to go to war when one breaks out, I tend to see signs of a cause and effect relationship.
To put it another way, it would actually be quite strange to send anyone but those people who had signed up. Like, if they had sent a small group of monks studying in San Francisco, for example.That would be something to write a song about. But no — these dumbass liberals want to write a song about the fact that an all-volunteer Army was sent to war. Who exactly should they have sent if not the all-volunteer Infantry? Even worse, they want to get all excited about it like it’s proof of some master plot. “Look at all the poor on the front lines”, they’ll say. Well, I call bullsh*t. “Look at all the poor that joined the Infantry of their own free will”, I’ll say.
And before anyone gets all riled up, I did the same damn thing myself. I walked into a recruiting station and signed on the dotted line to be an Infantryman. If I had been called to war I wouldn’t have had crap to say about it. I signed up for it and knew damn well what it meant to do so. To imply that those on the front lines in Iraq didn’t have that very same knowledge is an insult to each one of them and a sickening example of what liberalism has come to represent.
So yeah — great band, great song — horrible politics.