HERE"S A LIST of
The 10 Most Powerful Female Book Characters. I really don't know why
they left off Ma Joad; bitch kept a full family fed with piano wire and
skillet grease while riding a tuna can across the goddam country. Oh
well. A woman's work is never enough, I suppose. - XMASTIME
Today's right-wing culture tries to tell us that "we need to give more $$ to the uber-wealthy and let all the poor people hurry up and just fucking die already" is the real virtue of America, but one man thinks there's a perfect choice for our next president:
Ma Joad:
President Ma Joad wouldn’t cut food stamps. She wouldn’t deny
education to immigrant children. She wouldn’t trim funds for the
homeless. She would remind each American that lending a hand to those at
the bottom is a quality of the species, Homo sapiens.
She would
fire up the country with collective energy, too. “Maybe if we was all
mad in the same way,” Ma offers to Tom when he first comes home. Ma’s
notion of the American spirit would hardly be inherited privilege or
wealth or capitalist fervor; as she puts it: “If you’re in trouble or
hurt or need — go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help —
the only ones.” Pulling together is the Joad way, pure American
democracy.
"Sean Hannity said what? Get that little shit on the blower. Now."
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