--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So you made a sweeping generalization about a group to which I
> belong. You even anticipagted our counter-arguement (elitism) in
> your post.
>
> Did you really expect me, as part of the group you criticized, to not
> respond?
>
> You posted something not too long ago about fascism stopping speech.
> Yet here in practice, on this board, you try the same.
>
"Here's the thing about Americans. You can send their kids off by the
thousands to get their balls blown off in foreign lands for no reason
at all, saddle them with billions in debt year after congressional
year while they spend their winters cheerfully watching game shows and
football, pull the rug out from under their mortgages, and leave them
living off their credit cards and their Wal-Mart salaries while you
move their jobs to China and Bangalore.
And none of it matters, so long as you remember a few months before
Election Day to offer them a two-bit caricature culled from some
cutting-room-floor episode of Roseanne as part of your presidential
ticket. And if she's a good enough likeness of a loudmouthed
middle-American archetype, as Sarah Palin is, John Q. Public will drop
his giant-size bag of Doritos in gratitude, wipe the Sizzlin' Picante
dust from his lips and rush to the booth to vote for her. Not because
it makes sense, or because it has a chance of improving his life or
anyone else's, but simply because it appeals to the low-humming
narcissism that substitutes for his personality, because the image on
TV reminds him of the mean, brainless slob he sees in the mirror every
morning.
Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern
United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a
new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of
puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying
symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of
our political power.
Not only is Sarah Palin a fraud, she's the tawdriest, most half-assed
fraud imaginable, 20 floors below the lowest common denominator, a
character too dumb even for daytime TV -and this country is going to
eat her up, cheering her every step of the way. All because most
Americans no longer have the energy to do anything but lie back and
allow ourselves to be jacked off by the calculating thieves who run
this grasping consumer paradise we call a nation."
- Matt Taibbi is a writer for Rolling Stone.
© 2008 RollingStone.com All rights reserved.
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