Continued Slouching
I just watched Santorum's speech at some gathering in Illinois with the worlds largest American flag in the background. Because size matters! In fact, I'm prepared to vote for the candidate with the biggest flag.Or Bible. But as a metaphor for hyperbole, it was a great backdrop for his professing the MOST patriotism and faith, for declaring America the MOST exceptional, for our people being the MOST favored by God etc..
I could picture blog commentators Patrick and Beak in the crowd, with their single minded devotion and "passionate intensity",( see their comments to my last post, the hanging, the gasoline) stirred by Santorum's emotional pitch. And then I could picture Adolf Hitler at those giant rallies with those giant Nazi flags in the background and his emotional pleas for a renewed Fatherland and Purity, the impassioned, resentful crowds chanting in unison, revelling in that perfect Unity of a righteous cause and ordained destiny.Onward Christian soldiers.
We are a nation in the throes of "spiritual agony", as a comrade put it so eloquently the other night. All that promise and hope draining into a shallow, cynical pool of materialist,irrational excess or the feverish swamp of religious fanaticism. Wasn't hard to predict. You can only bury so much trauma before it manifests as the brutish sneer on a cops face. Can you sense the police state marshalling it's forces (both physical and "moral"), it's new high tech crowd control weaponry, preachers and paramilitary vigilanty zealots?
The Saudis promise to "meet any shortfall" and the price per barrel dips a couple bucks.The gated communities increase the patrols, the settlers stock up on weapons, the cherry blossoms come two weeks early. The pundits try to explain the shooters motives. ("Abe said where you want this killin done?") A howl is heard across the land and William Burroughs lights another fag.
"And what rough beast, It's hour come at last
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?"
posted by troutsky @ 8:21 AM
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9 Comments:
I'm still waiting (probably in vain) for an explanation as to how demanding LESS government bureaucracy and interference equates to Nazism or Fascism, systems which by their very natures entail MORE government bureaucracy and interference.
Having said that, I could use a Xanax.
I'll take a stab at the fascist part: With less regulation/regulators (less intermediaries) between corporations and the public or public assets, the more likely a corporation can capture, corrupt and/or overwhelm the processes which are ostensibly designed to protect people, land, air and water. I'd argue that the size of government does not matter in those definitions. It is merely how corrupted they are by money and power, regardless of the bureaucracy.
Yeah John but there are supposed to be some regulatory safeguards to prevent that kind of corruption. No reasonable person I know of wants to eliminate all government rules and regulations. But the bigger government gets the more oppressive and intrusive it becomes and the more byzantine it gets. It gets to the point where it goes around slapping penalties on people in order to prevent them from doing things they haven't even done, on the off chance if they don't come down on them they might do them. At that point it becomes that much easier for a relative handful of corporations to benefit from the system at the expense of smaller competitors who all too often are at best vastly hindered in the market place, and all too often crushed outright. That's where it becomes fascist, when you have a situation where a huge, behemoth government with its regulatory czars gets in bed with a few of the biggest and wealthier corporate entities which benefit from the arrangement at the expense of smaller business, and all the rest of us.
And the sad thing is, it accomplishes absolutely nothing of any value, other than keeping a minimum amount of taxes flowing in, which wouldn't be as necessary under a free market (but reasonably regulated) system.
Its funny that the imbecile Troutsky should ponder about Nazis.
Actual Nazis,LWB with posts linked to Stormfront commented with out the author saying a word. His leftist idiot friend Aaron the Fink
pointed out the over the top bigotry while the Trout yawned.
Nazis and Troutsky share obsessions with Jews. Note the Trout would never question a Black man's anger with the KKK. Real Jews
not to be confused with imposters like Ren or Prof Tarzan view Commies in the same manner Blacks view the KKK.
Leave it to an apologist for a political criminal who deals drugs,
aids terrorism and has the most antisemmitic country on the planet
outside the middle east to point the finger at others.
Try Stand Up Troutsy.
FYI
Calling Jews Nazis is clearly anti semitic and part of a pattern of yours. Not very original, but as a commie creativity doesn't go with the deal
Let me guess, Beak. Your really pulling for Newton and that's why you are so upset.
Well, looks like #Occupy is heating up in Union Square so we can anticipate your usual fine reporting.
Really, keep us posted.
Trout, you know this guy?
(Reuters) - A Montana man was arrested after he tried to bring four loaded guns through a security checkpoint at a Sacramento, California, airport and is being held without bail, the sheriff's office said on Saturday.
The suspect, Harold Waller, 45, was arrested on Thursday afternoon at Sacramento International Airport after Transportation Security Administration officers at a checkpoint found a firearm inside a carry-on bag, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department said in a statement.
Further checks showed Waller was carrying a loaded handgun and had three loaded firearms in his carry-on bags, it said.
Sheriff's deputies searched his car at an off-site parking lot and turned up eight more firearms, several of them loaded.
Yeah Ducky, Montana is such a small fucking state he's probably Trout's next door neighbor. Hell, he probably pumps his gas for him.
Duncy
Troutsky like yourself is a card carrying Communist Anti Semite. Troutsky is an appologist for a narco terrorist thug who just happens to run the most anti semitic state outside of the middle
east.
This blog has allowed a Nazi commenter whose comments were offensive to many of Troutsky's friends including some on the left.
Troutsky and yourself are the mirror images of Nazis, not conservatives. Comparing a Jew to a Nazi is rather cliche but Troutsky is a hack fishing guide who fancies himself a writer.
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