Alvin Greene:An America for the Unemployed by the Unemployed

[Manifestor_of_Light]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-lieblich/alvin-greene-an-america-f_b_643880.html?ir=Politics


The ascension of Alvin Greene, a jobless man plucked out of obscurity and inexplicably hoisted as South Carolina's Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, continues to shock reporters and befuddle political pundits nationwide. Some people might balk at his dearth of credentials, lack of any political experience, his dishonorable discharge from the military, or simply his inability to string together a complete sentence. These people should shut up.

The opposition to Alvin Greene is endemic of an age-old discrimination rampant in America: jobism. Jobism is the unsubstantiated favor in a person's character based simply on the fact that he or she has a job. According to jobists, employed people somehow add value to society, and maintain a coherent, proper view of the world, arrogantly called a "work ethic." Some extremists even assert that people with jobs form the foundation of our civilization. Jobism--the belief that people who arrive at their office on time, and proceed to work steadily for fifty hours a week, are somehow more responsible than those who do not--is both myopic and repugnant. Unfortunately, these jobists fail to understand that we are still finishing our novel and need some space because are quitting smoking again. It is stereotypes like these that have pervaded American culture since its inception. It is stereotypes like these that have kept men like Alvin Greene out of the Senate...until now.

Let us not question how Alvin won the primary with no campaigning whatsoever, nor how he afforded the ten-thousand dollar ballot registration fee, nor how he manages a fully functional website despite not owning a computer. These are trifling barbs of jobist logic, which only distract us from the essential point: Alvin Greene will save America.

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[notadmblnd]

1. Even if he doesn't save America, I think he should be voted into office.

I mean really, could he do any worse then the people SC has representing them now?

[nxylas]

2. What a stuck-up wanker

"Unfortunately, these jobists fail to understand that we are still finishing our novel and need some space because are quitting smoking again."

Or how about "have been trying to find a job for the last year, but can't because there are no fucking jobs to be had"? Try coming out of your ivory tower sometime, Lieblich.