Winningprogressive recently posted a piece here called The Progressive Majority vs. the Paper Tiger Tea Party. In the article it was suggested that the numbers are on the side of “progressives” rather than…rather than what, exactly? Tea Partiers? Winningprogressive offers numbers of people who showed up for various rallies as proof of this idea.
Well…forget about the “numbers” at gatherings. First of all, those numbers are always jiggered to support whichever side is doing the jiggering. Numbers lie, always and forever. Further, the Tea Party supporters…and I do not necessarily mean the Tea Party members, I mean those who support many of the memes that seem to float above Tea Partier heads like dialogue balloons in comics…are by their very nature anti-joiners. They want to be left alone by any and every group other than their own kind.
They are white, working class/lower middle class and rural/semi-rural, many of them. They do not generally like people who do not look like them…and not just skin color either. How people dress, how they act. And they are pissed. They are pissed because they feel (accurately or not, no matter) that they are not being adequately represented in the federal government. To them, Washington is all about people in expensive suits who use a lot of big words and look down on them as uneducated hicks.
They are also pissed because they see this culture as one that is degenerating.
Check it out.
The Lady Gaga fans ain’t gonna show up at the polls, but the Tea Party fans are damned well going to vote this time.
Bet on it.
The Tea Party?
A paper tiger?
More like a big wind, seems to me. And the coalition that elected Obama? It’s beginning to look like a house of cards. Like a group of people many of whom are not truly committed to change. Like people who want the easy way out. “Oh, we’ll elect Obama and he’ll change everything!!! And then when he proves unequal to the task over a two-year period…a herculean task, at best…it’s “Oh well. Life sucks” and they’re outta there.
You do know what happens to a house of cards in a big wind, don’t you?
Yup.
Watch.
Booman has recently been writing a great deal on the subject of weak and/or pissy “progressives”, and he is right on the money.
The Dems have less than two months to:
1-Discredit the right-wing leaders.
and
2-Motivate the Dem base.
Think that they can do it?
I don’t. Not if the pissiness continues, for sure, even with the media behind them. And the media is behind them. Bet on that as well. The Corporate PermaGov is scared to death by this new Know-Nothing Party.
The Know-Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850s. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to Anglo-Saxon values and controlled by the Pope in Rome. Mainly active from 1854 to 1856, it strove to curb immigration and naturalization…
The PermaGov does not like boat-rocking. Profits tend to slide off the deck in rough seas.
But have they waited too long? Should they have attacked Sarah Palin when she was just a fledgling starlet instead of a full-blown media star?
Yup.
But they didn’t.
Why?
She sold media time.
And now they are about to pay the price for their own short-sighted, quarterly profits-driven greed.
I wish that winningprogressive was right, here. I really do.
But…I’ve been out and around in the boonies recently.
Gonna be a lot of pickup trucks parked near the polls this time.
That is an iron-clad guarantee.
Watch.
That line from W. B. Yeats’ poem The Second Coming?
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Like dat.
Poetry as prophecy.
November gonna be nasty.
And the lacking-all-conviction, lacking-all-political-wisdom, self-righteous leftinesses have earned this November.
Sorry, but that’s the simple truth of the matter.
You cannot just stamp your foot and expect 60+ years of political, econmic and cultural decline to go away. It doesn’t work that way. But the grind-it-out reality of political change doesn’t mesh well with the “I want mine with ice cream on top. Now!!!” mentality of the TV and post-TV generation of so-called progressives. I am only recently beginning to understand the massive hate that Hillary Clinton engenders in leftiness circles. She’s been grinding and grinding for 40 years in an effort to get something done.
Anything, by any means necessary.
And the above it all, insular, middle class leftinesses done fucked up again. No staying power.
No wonder the really savvy pols do not fully put their trust in so-called “progressive” forces. They’re here today, gone tomorrow, as tenuous as a light morning mist. Blow on ’em and they fold.
Station WTFU once again signing off.
Gotta go get ready for Armageddon.
Watch.
AG
A little classic progressive foot stamping, maybe?
As you will.
As you must.
The foot stamping that’s going to matter this time around?
It’s going to be wearing these shoes.
Watch.
AG
“The Majority” as it is presently forming here today?
Not a numerical majority but most likely an electoral one this time around?
Look no further.
Being Glenn Beck
Read this article.
I was spellbound. And scared to death. I have not looked hard at Beck…too ugly and (I thought), too weak. I was wrong. His strength lies in his weakness. In his resemblance to his followers.
Here they come.
The Know-Nothings.
The original Know-Nothings were a pre-Civil War American political party that was so paranoid about its place in the society that it instructed its members to answer “I know nothing” when questioned about it.
Deep.
Deeper?
This regressive movement that is afoot in US politics actually not only “knows nothing”, it revels in that fact and actually idolizes a man who daily makes a point of confessing that he doesn’t have a clue, even about himself.
From the aforementioned article:
Like dat.
And he is kicking ass and taking names, weeping all the while.
How? Why?
Because he is just like his followers, that’s why.
Unbalanced in the extreme.
Contrast him to Barack Obama, a man of mixed racial ancestry whose whole life has been dedicated to achieving and maintaining a personal and societal balance in the face of a racist society that when he was born was still beating and lynching black men in the south for looking wrong at a white woman.
And the left is not backing Obama’s play because he is somehow not “radical” enough?
Please.
Wake the fuck up.
We are at a tipping point.
We either tip backwards into the nasty white supremacist past or tip forwards into a future that at least holds out a chance for survival.
This next month and a half is going to tell the tale… at least the beginning of it. If there is a real rightward sea change in November’s vote…and I personally think that such a change is exactly what is going to happen unless the centrist hypnomedia is even stronger than even I have ever guessed…then the next two years will be the final battle.
Forward or backward.
Now’s the time.
Decision time.
Stop mewling about Obama’s tactical decisions and get behind his shit or lose it all.
Really.
WTFU.
Please.
AG