{"id":2328,"date":"2012-11-09T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/11\/where-is-howard-beale-when-we-need-him.html"},"modified":"2012-11-09T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T14:02:00","slug":"where-is-howard-beale-when-we-need-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/11\/where-is-howard-beale-when-we-need-him.html","title":{"rendered":"Where is Howard Beale when we need him"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>He\u2019s right you know. \u00a0In order to change things, you have to get mad at them. \u00a0You have to get mad at that ball, as we used to tell our boys in soccer. \u00a0Right now, the ones who are mad as hell are the ones who are winning. \u00a0Mad as hell about free contraceptives, mad as hell about abortion rights, mad as hell about eliminating religious\u00a0influence\u00a0in society, mad as hell about gay marriage. \u00a0They\u2019re mad as hell, and the good news for them is, soon they won\u2019t\u00a0have\u00a0to take it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Those who don\u2019t support such things? \u00a0Well they\u2019re mad, but mostly at each other. \u00a0Sure, those who are mad as hell about our wars or our torture were once mad as hell, but they\u2019re clever enough to know that if they really want to get gay marriage or free contraception, then tread lightly with\u00a0the\u00a0one who will help you get it, even if he\u2019s also doing what you were once\u00a0mad\u00a0as hell about. \u00a0After all, there\u2019s being mad as\u00a0hell\u00a0 then there\u2019s being politically clever.<\/p>\n<p>But those not wanting such things, well they\u2019re more or less mad as hell about \u2013 each other. \u00a0Most energies are spent now trashing and hashing one another. \u00a0Declaring war on those who oppose those things, but not as cleverly as I do. \u00a0Realizing that there is no\u00a0compromise\u00a0at all, if you\u2019re not with me, you\u2019re against me, even if it means those others who have declared war on everything we hold dear will win. Oh Mr. Beale is right. \u00a0The first thing you do is get mad as hell and declare you\u2019re not going to take it any more. \u00a0It\u2019s just that one side realized who they must unite\u00a0together\u00a0to get mad as hell at, and the other side thinks the best move is to be mad at hell at all those others who aren\u2019t as good at being mad as hell as I am.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s right you know. \u00a0In order to change things, you have to get mad at them. \u00a0You have to get mad at that ball, as we used to tell our boys in soccer. \u00a0Right now, the ones who are mad as hell are the ones who are winning. \u00a0Mad as hell about free contraceptives, mad 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