Punxatawney Phil saw his shadow in the eponymous Pennsylvania town that feeds the rodent. And Donald Trump has endorsed (wait for it …) NEWT GINGRICH! Uh, whoops. They reported FUTURE news, and The Donald, being such a model of consistency, changed his notion at the last minute and ...
And, in its way, that's what I've been leading up to in all of this. The artificial creation of rhetorical bogeymen is a very dangerous tactic. (And, like that GI JOE box, you don't need an actual action figure. You just need language to tell your voting audience what's IN the box. Which may not exist at all, or is merely a series of gut language conditionings attached to the "action figure" you've created.)
Somehow, the words "Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice" caused the elite of the Rightie Blogosmear to use their protean command of logick to formulate the logical statement (Low IQ) + (Conservative Beliefs) = Prejudice and instantly turn it inside-out into the strange self-insult (Conservative) = Stupid + Racist.*
Who is Foster Friess? Freiss is a long-time member and former officer of the Council for National Policy...And Foster was present at the infamous Koch Brothers secret meeting in Aspen, Colorado a story that the New York Times reported and ThinkProgress broke.
Let me restate the thesis of "The Invisible Empire" the interconnection between self-defined libertarians and the neo-Confederate "lost cause" and White Supremacist underground is exstensive and disturbing. The same characters with the same weird views keep showing up in the same contexts. Take a gander at this ...
We don't usually see life in these terms, of course. We see it as an endless parade, and we dream about cruising the Mediterranean with our Retirement Nest egg and how proud our grandkids will make us. We dream of moving up the corporate ladder. We dream of creating the perfect confluence between the Pie In The Sky Constitution guarantees of freedom of speech and call in to talk radio shows when Huckleberry Finn has been banned, yet again...
But he hadn't IGNORED the blatant lie in the Romney ad, he'd BLOWN RIGHT PAST IT. Somehow the quaint notion of "lie" had simply passed through his consciousness as effortlessly as krill through a tuna net. Lying was considered normal and this was hardball, and what was everybody so upset about?
What they DON'T seem to get is the part about the Richie Riches believing that they can finally take over a dispirited and disunified Republican Party. Maybe, if I blog for another several years, they will. But they DO begin to "get" that radical libertarianism is, for most Americans, left and right, a "bridge too far" in its application.
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