People talk about how this election has exposed certain fault lines within the party and the country and brought forth a lot of latent racism, and sexism, and classism, and ageism. Yeah. It did all that. But mostly it just stirred up a World of Stupid.
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latent? surely you jest
well, it brought it to the surface. How’s that?
There was always stupid if you knew where to look. This was the year that stupid went mainstream.
Sorry, but 2004 was when stupid went mainstream. Half the country was as stupid as a bag of hammers.
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Hm. You have a point.
You know how stupid the average American is, right?
Well, by definition, half of them are even dumber than that.
And they all voted for Chimpy McFlightsuit . . .
True, but this year the Stupid drifted into our half as well.
…more like it needs to be summoned to Wexler’s committee for steroid abuse.
So Hillary has summoned all her biggest supporters for her speech tomorrow in New York. The rumor mill has her “shedding staff”. The conventional wisdom is that tomorrow she punches the candidate clock for the last time.
Why do I just have the gut feeling that tomorrow we will be treated, not to a concession speech, but to another “why we’re ahead and why we will win” speech?
Yes, common sense would indicate that tomorrow it will all be over.
All the more reason to believe that tomorrow it will continue.
We are truly living in George Constanza’s “Do the Opposite” world. Where you first ponder and weigh all your options and based on that you decide what is truly rational and logical……..and then do the complete opposite of that. In the end, it didn’t work out for George, either.
It’s being billed as a “Victory Speech”. WTF?
At McCain’s inaugural, she will be clinging to his ankles screaming, “No, it’s mine!”
It was the year that some attempted to build upon stupid.
Lots of STUPID out there – unfortunately..
Now if we could just convert Stupid into energy, we’d be set.
We’ve been living in a World of Stupid for a lot longer than that. The Stupid is always out there. It’s just that sometimes we look away from it and pretend the world is better than it is.
The World of Stupid is always stirred up. You break you TV?
. . . is it safe to try to read the site yet?
What can you do if you’re a Rovian running the Republican campaign this year? You’ve got an old McCain who can’t help but contradict himself and the facts and whose entire staff is made up of lobbyists. The economy is in the tank, which is just as well because no one can afford to put anything else in it.
So what do you do? You go back to the old tried and true: religion, racism, sexism, George Soros.
And you thought this county was smart? Elections have always appealled to the lowest common denominator. Unfortunately, it is not about the issues unless they are inflammatory and divide. When Kennedy ran, he was suspected because he was Catholic. Remember when a candidate could not be divorced…kiss of death. Lincoln was called a long armed ape.
But this year the democrats have taken polarization by prejudice to new heights….or should I say the Clinton campaign has. When the election was perceived to be a sure thing for HRC, she ran as a policy wonk. It was only after her multiple defeats on super Tuesday that she became more divisive. Obama had originally been perceived as post-racial, until he achieved a majority of the african american electorate, and suddenly race became an issue. We also witnessed discrimination against black liberation theology because it hits hard to a collective sense of guilt.
As HRC became more and more behind in delegates, she started to play the gender card, whipping up women to believe that she was being discriminated against because of her sex.
I guess what we see is that these issues do polarize and if skillfully played can produce deep chasms. The old feminists still feel wronged. Perhaps we are foolish to believe that we are post-feminist.
Politics is a game and Rove tactics do work. It just was rather fascinating to see them played out by a democratic candidate.
Congrats on the all traffic Booman. As a loyal reader, good to see you get all of the pub/street cred.