Maybe it’s because 2013 was such a stupid year but, as it comes to an end, I have been preoccupied with how incredibly paralyzingly stupid our country has become. Matt Taibbi appears to be having similar thoughts.
Then, of course, there’s the irony. Men like Karl Rove and Dick Armey practically invented the politics of stupid. In fact, they practically invented the politics of winning millions of votes every time some oversexed cosmopolitan liberal of the Matt Damon/Sean Penn genus used words like “dumb” or “stupid” to describe the preoccupations of Middle America’s God-and-guns culture.
To see these same Beltway Svengalis trapped now in this crazy role reversal, denounced by the far right for being the same kind of condescending establishment snot-bags they themselves spent decades trying to find and campaign against – well, that’s just seriously funny.
At least Taibbi is capable of seeing the humor in it all. Increasingly, I am not finding it funny at all.
