France and Her Influence On Just Society

In this story, it is noted that the French public wishes its right-wing President would quit embarrassing the country with his constant jogging.

Some say that the anti-aristocracy movement in France was the ideological model for the American Revolution. There can be no doubt that the material support from France was integral to the success of the eventual rebellion. Say what you will about the motivations behind French intervention, but if it weren't for that beacon, America may never have found her way.

Granted, it is difficult these days to give much credit to the men who fought to free the colonies. Things have turned out so poorly, after all. It is all too easy to forget that America was not always the global epicenter of hateful capitalist prick behavior; it may even seem that blustering, dismissive self-proclaimed ruling class ponces are an American invention. It's not so.

There have always been rich people who love to cheer for winners. There have always been people who won't ever shut up about the afterlife. Lying newspaper columnists, sinister executives, wretched bishops, uninformed students and rapist soldiers have been right there to take part in every Republic there's ever been.

America has, quite simply, forgotten how and why they ought to hate the right wing. Somehow, United States society has allowed its conservative dickheads to worm their way out of the stigma that they deserve. The accumulated scorn that ought to tarnish their principles seems to have rubbed off, ever so gradually, such that they sometimes pass for just as good as any other. Mercifully, France is still there for us, to remind us of the way things ought to be.

You turn up your nose at hunting. You poke fun at NASCAR, and you snicker when someone orders grits. You shake your head when you overhear someone's cartoonish xenophobia. That's not enough. What this country needs is for its bravest, most independent citizens to speak what they know to be true. Tell them: business and enterprise are for assholes. Ignorant old people are shameful. Going to church is pathetic, and the Army is full of douchebags. Conservatism as a whole is a cowardly fallacy, and, yes, joggers are dicks. As a culture, we remember these things, somewhere deep down. Let our minds recall the wisdom of a brighter day. Let us look to France for strength.

The next time you hear a guy say that you can't argue with success, the correct thing to do is to spit in his face.