"Unelectable 2012"

A friend of mine had a birthday this week, and as is our custom, we planned an evening for her. She is a huge Glenn Beck fan, and the thing she most wanted to do to celebrate was to go see a movie he did called "Unelectable 2012".  I'm pretty unpolitical anymore, so this isn't something that would really be my cup of tea. But that's what she wanted to do, so there you have it.

We arrived at the theater, and went to purchase our tickets, expecting it to be the price of a normal movie. WRONG.  Since it was a special event and all, we got to be ranted at for the not-so-small price of $19 - PER PERSON! Ouch! Strike 1.

We entered the theater to see that we had added to the crowd of maybe 6 other people, which made for a grand total of 9 of us. Now I know why it cost so much. You have to charge extra when no one wants to see your movie. Strike 2.

The movie itself is basically a recording of his traveling roadshow.  He has a few partners in crime who join him on stage, try to be funny, and say how horrible liberals are. That lasts oh, maybe 6 hours (I'm being facetious here, but it feels like 6 hours).  Then he goes off on a rant, where he jumps from topic to topic and you have no idea what the point is he's trying to make. Something about American History, something about God, and his kids, and just being you.  It had everyone but me whipped into a frenzy, and after 6 more hours of this, I was ready to slit my wrists. The worst is that I had even left my cellphone on, hoping that someone, anyone, would call or text me and that I'd need to make a mad dash out of the theater. NO SUCH LUCK!  Strike 3. It's no wonder I'm disenchanted with politics.

After all this misery, I just know that someday, I'm going to be called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and I'm going to have to state that I never was a member of any Tea Party, I just went to a meeting once. But I didn't like it. And no, I will not name names.

Of course all of the above may sound a bit mean-spirited. I love my friend dearly, and I'm glad she had a good time at the show.  It just wasn't my thing.  Although I have to say, there was one thing did I agree with him on, and that was when he said that the most dangerous thing to us as Americans right now is apathy. I completely agree there. 

On a more serious note, my attitude towards politics probably doesn't give me any leg to stand on. I honestly do want to make a political stand on something, and even though I haven't come to any conclusions for myself yet, I know that I need to. For now, I think it's to study and understand the topic and then just try and do whatever the Lord would do. And never again go to a $19 movie for the pleasure of being robbed.