The elitist arrogance is galling, isn't it? I'm sure Markos doesn't perceive himself as an arrogant media elite, but he certainly sounded like one when he called Saturday's protest, "boring" and "irrelevant." I dissent: Saturday's protest, as well as Sunday's and Monday's activist actions couldn't be more relevant, or more inspiring.
Once again, Kos disappoints and dismays, as he exhibits his media-elite arrogance about more than 300,000 americans spending their money and taking their time--MAINSTREAM AMERICANS--a hundred thousand of whom had never participated in activism before in their lives, but who detest this administration's polices so deeply that they felt compelled to speak out, to stand up and be counted,
to participate in their civic responsibility beyond voting. But, because he doesn't personally approve of the
method of activism, Kos dismisses them, derides them and scorns them as....
"boring." His message couldn't be more clear: If you aren't part of the media you don't matter(Kos argues he is not responsible for that either, because he's just a humble blogger--how convenient!) Says Kos:
Your activism is "boring!"
Your voice isn't powerful enough to count. It's unbelievably arrogant of Kos to judge 300,000 voices as "boring." Perhaps Markos doesn't think that they matter, but I
know that they matter. I was there on Saturday. I saw veterans who've served in war--including an old WWII vet in a wheelchair--I saw grandmothers, grandfathers, young parents with children, middle-aged mainstream americans. I saw people who'd never participated EVER in their lives in activism play a part in history, just as veterans did in Dewey Canyon during Vietnam--which had a huge impact on this country. It's not "vietnam all over again," but it is the same exercise of constitutional rights and constitutional responsibilities in a Republic so necessary to "keep it" as Benjamin Franklin challenged. That Kos would deride such activism by claiming that it is the "media, stupid" as if the media is the ONLY respectable voice, is a mystery unfathomable to me, since Kos himself started his blog for the express reason that the MEDIA wasn't doing its job. His incredible arrogance is despicable on this issue. But, the tragic irony is that--if
even half of those activists decide that Kos is right and choose to set up their own blog, and engage in Kos'own annointed activism, Kos would likely become irrelevant himself!