The Nightmare Continues
Say you are Bill Kristol and you wake to find Conneticut has become the third state to legalize gay marriage, North Korea has been taken off the "Terror List" and Mc Cain is having to throw water on Palins racist fire. Your old pal Greenspan is in disgrace ( he said his faith in derivitives remains "unshaken") , the economy is in ruin and you are just waiting for the lecture from Osama bin Laden or Hugo Chavez. I turn on CNN and the syncophants of Reaganism are howling in rage from their mortal wounds, Bill Bennet talking of virtues, others insisting on tax cuts and less government, a dazed look which begs " when will I wake up?" The pundits have perfected a kind of shrug and idiot grin, suggesting they too have been transported into a realm outside their narrow conceptual capabilities. Even that nice Ms Bachelet from Chile has adopted a mocking tone and I can only imagine the jeers at the G7.
Poor Cornel West sat there thinking about how much he was being paid to be polite and how much he would like to reach across the table and give them a good shake, rattle and roll. Instead he declared Reaganism dead and they started twitching like the methadone was wearing off. The howls have a slightly more bloodthirsty tone at the Mc Cain -Palin rallys, but the rage is the same. Many Americans cannot accept "less", they don't do "sacrifice", unless it is the human variety, and if they think they are losing their precious credit cards and Wal Marts to a terrorist loving socialist half breed, well, at least for now the jewish bankers are spared. (for how long?) Did you see the clip of the poor old gal who told Mc Cain that Obama was an "Arab"? The entire crowd was momentarily embarrassed (in a very collective sense) and then the howls started up once more. As precise a demonstration of our historical moment as I have ever witnessed.
It is now a part of popular entertainment culture to have "on the street"interviews with "uninformed people", as it were, so that others may laugh and wince and feel smug in their own knowlege of "a country that begins with a U" or some other absurd question. Leno does it, John Stewart, Bill Maher, etc .. People realize instinctively that it is this public ignorance that is the real "crisis" of our time. But of course they are unable to articulate it. It is not some bizarre version of capitalism ( "American" , "neoliberal", "monopoly" late global" etc..) which has failed, it is democracy.
posted by troutsky @ 5:13 PM
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"Say you are Bill Kristol ..."
Sorry, Troutsky, but I had to stop reading right there and go find some poison to drink.
Eric you are the greatest moron of them all. Read the antisemitic line
in this post about "Jewish Bankers".
Feel free to invite all your commie friends over and have a Jim Jones style party. Practicing class genocide on yourself would give you revolutionary authenticity.
No, Beakerkin, you've got me and everyone else beat in that competition. I did read that line, the obvious point of which was that blaming the financial crisis on "Jewish Bankers" is as stupid and hateful as accusing Obama of being a "terrorist-loving socialist" (and vice-versa).
Of course, given your willingness to make excuses for the unambiguously anti-Semitic comment about "Israelite" bankers by the preacher at Sarah Palin's church, there is absolutely no reason to take your seriously on this (nor any other) matter.
Surely you saw the analogy Beak? Scapegoating leads to bad places including the reverse pathology of putting a group "out of bounds" for any criticism. As for the Reverend Jones,he was not a democrat,despite certain socialistic tendencies.Do you see my criteria? POLITICAL economy requires BOTH.
Eric
You are a fool. The antisemitism is right in front of you. What does Troutsky have to do read from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
As far as Obama, he knew exactly who and what Ayers and his wife were. Obama also is joined at the hip with a Kenyan Communist butcher. Then there is the being a member of a racist, anti semitic communist church for two decades with a poverty pimp crack pot pastor. The pastor just happens to live in a fashionable all white burb and yet preaches the "authentic street" bs. He just so happens to have a Communist mentor as well.
America will survive Obama and his cadre of University Bolshevik crew that will make Guiner look like a walk in the park. Obama is a Marxist fraud and the fake claims
of Ren are a cover. In the case of the Marijuana Marxist Graeme he is so anti-semitic that he thinks Obama is a tool of AIPAC.
The isolated speech of Palins minister is meaningless when compared to a 20 year tie with a Farakhanite.
Now onto the fish brained imbecile.
Jim Jones was a communist and Ren's mentor. He practiced a variant called communalism.
What I see is more rabid anti semitism from the Jim Jones crew.
Sorry, those who want to crucify Don Imus for an attempt at comedy
should not give Troutsky a pass for
material out of Nazi propaganda.
Eric you are a fool and a political
hack. The old Bolshevik network has
provided yet another example of mediocrity.
Ask some survivors who were the Kapos. You will not like the answer
because the ones I know point to your kind. Your kind cried about the Rosenberg traitors while
willfully turning a blind eye to
the Soviet version of the Spanish Inquisition.
You are an abomination and a second
rate hack with no back bone.
Vants, geh kakhn aufen yam.
I've been saying over a year now, that Reaganism is in its death agony. Combined with cultural conservatism, so discredited, it's rarely brought up lately by politicians. Hardly the end of history.
Bill Kristol is the one who predicted, if Obama runs for president, he'll never win state, if Hillary opposes him. he has in his New York Times contract, no outside fact checking aloud, before publication. For someone who is so familiar with social democracy, he presents only pragmatism.
McCain in LaCrosse, Wisconsin seemed to put the kabosh to mentioning Bill Ayers all the time. It is costing him votes, particularly independent.
Beak attacked me at Sonia's blog, for commenting against Palin at Sonia's blog. At my own blog, where most commentors are liberal, I attack Obama. At conservative blogs I attack McCain. Why attack Obama at a conservative blog?
I think after McCain loses, the conservatives will have a civil war amongst themselves. Sonia's blog will explode.
With Dems coming to power, it is more important than ever, to present a labor party, as an alternative. Obama will preside over a large budget deficit, two lost wars and a population that has illusions about him.
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