Want to know who comprises “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.
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?
Read on.
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:
[Beck] is fragile, on the edge. There is no template for him or for where he is headed. “I have not prepared my whole life to be here,” Beck told me from his plush couch, his face turning bright pink. “I prepared my whole life to be in a back alley.” I expected him to cry, but he did not.
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 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
Watch.
They’re out there…
Bet on it.
Question is…whatchoo…what are we…gonna do about it!!!???
AG
Beck has jumped the shark.
So has Left Wing pessimism.
Even if the election changes the balance of this or that, there will be a moment where the electorate is it’s most informed that is when the magic happens.
>returns to hacking Diebold Machines<
“I know nothing.”
Who did that guy serve?
Like Dat.
Only…he was transparently a clown.
As is Beck, really.
But Boehner and the like?
Sober?
They’re dangerous.
Drunk?
Even more dangerous.
Think about it.
Second in line to succeed the president as Speaker of the House?
Oh, shit!!!
AG
I spend a fair amount of time here bitching about weak-kneed Democratic leadership that acts as if it had lost even when it has won big twice in a row. But the fact is that you and Booman are right. If the Democrats play successful defense this time, we will get more namby-pamby from them. But if the Republicans win, chaos will break out, which will be blamed on Obama. If the Republicans sweep in 2012, we can be fairly certain that tyranny won’t be far behind. I’ll take namby-pamby over tyranny any day. No excuses for sulking at home if you love your country and our children.
Check this out, Arthur!
http://www.fastcompany.com/1692072/truthy-colbert-twitter-swift-boat