By John Ballard
Another heads up for what may be a cult following of this writer. I like his style, but that's just me. He puts into plain language what many are thinking. This one's not too long, a little over two thousand words.
Sarah Palin stands for something all right: the victory of right-wing dumbfuckery in America. We're dysfunctional because we have more influential idiots in our nation than any other industrialized nation has in theirs. You have to ask yourself what kind of a nation elevates dumb-brunette loons like Michele Bachmann into our government and raging moonbats like Glenn Beck into our punditry and considers a celebrity airhead like Sarah Palin a viable presidential candidate. Anywhere else they'd be laughed out of public life, but here they're heroes. It's like the Attack of the Zombies, or the Rule of White Trash. Half the nation is not embarrassed by these blithering lunatics, and the other half puts them on TV.***
These Tea Party people don't believe in government because they don't believe in America. They don't believe in the sharing, caring America of the common good, of taking social responsibility, of helping each other, of being my brother's or sister's keeper, of using government to get rich people to help poor people instead of the other way round. For chrissake, America is its government, and if at the moment, we're a plutocracy instead of a democracy, we should help save our government from Wall Street and all the other bastards who milk and bilk us. The government shouldn't be shrunk; we should make it big and smart enough to control Wall Street on our behalf.
The logical extreme of being anti-government is to start shooting members of the government. The shooting of Gabby Giffords is all of a piece with Republican anti-government propaganda; a domestic counterpart to their neocon foreign war pathology.
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The warmongers are on the right, the peaceniks on the left. Unfortunately, the warmongers have always been the majority. Our killer majority even includes our Nobel Peace Prize-winning President Obama. This is the same man who gave a brilliantly moving speech at the Tucson Memorial -- maybe the best speech from a pol since the Gettysburg address IMO -- on the day that Palin released her video, inadvertently showcasing her all-about-me-ness against Obama's all-about-us-ness. She aired her video on the day of Obama's speech to show that she could be more presidential than him. Believe it or not, the Wacky Wingnut of Wasilla tried to best Obama at the oratory game. This has got to rival the arrogance of an ant colony trying to gang-bang an elephant. She and her ilk turned out to be the dinosaurs; Obama was their meteor.
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