Orgy Of The Real Elites
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-by DeCay
Economics Comics. Another issue of NeoComics released to angry and frightened reviews, except by the Faux and the fondlers. It's the everlasting Bankanalia, orgy of the real elites. And we serve, clear the tables, even supply the party favors, and then get stiffed by payroll. And they roll on, getting paid and laid. The Palindrone, repeating the lies backwards and forwards, shills excitedly & nonblinkingly for the Front; she senses her pre-ordained destiny. And the Front flops like clouds in the Rovian wind, looks at his prompters, and flashes his oily grin.
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I've been reading Hillman, about betrayal. Here's a quote...
"... a paradox of betrayal is the fidelity which both betrayed and
betrayer keep, after the event, to the bitterness."
When someone like McCain (did he kill McAbel?) betrays his own trust, the things by which he made such a point of defining himself, he is the betrayed and the betrayer, and the earlier McCain, the betrayed, must be trapped in this paradox. Especially being older, where irony and the tragic sense of life, and the betrayal of the body, are all making their moves in the psyche.
This is to say that I don't think he can handle it. It's too toxic and destructive, and he's not truly evil like Palin. He's a bad liar because he can't stomach it; he knows he sins against himself. It's there in his new Joker smile. He must have sensed in Palin a dissembling saviour who could take the psychological lead. I think her evil (manifest in the dissembling) is proven by the ecstatic reaction and rally of the Christianist fantasists; they are born again in the glow of someone charismatically leading them into the lie. Once again they can forget the murky relativism of not having a head liar. They can follow her, and be safe. And they would only follow a masterful liar. Like Dobson and Haggard and Robertson before her. The best liars believe their lies. The moment they tell them, the lies become truth.
Labels: McCain's cynicism
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 9:30 AM
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The best thing I've read about the Republican's charges of elitism was written by Doug Muder, who also blogs as "Pericles" at Daily Kos. And I quote:
"In politics the elitists are the people who make you think bad thoughts about yourself, the people who might have some reason to think they know better than you.
They're not the billionaires or the social-register types. The person who really makes you feel inferior is the sister or cousin or childhood friend who came from the same trailer park you did, but now she has her masters degree, a nice husband, a house in the suburbs, and beautiful children. She doesn't smoke or drink much and she always looks like a million bucks -- and if that bitch ever starts telling you how to live or what to do or how to raise your kids, you're really going to let her have it. The elitist is the guy whose accent changed after he went to Princeton. He actually understands all this stuff they talk about in the newspapers, to the point that you're afraid to talk to him about any of it, because he might just say, "What do you know? You should just shut up." Or even if he didn't say that, you'd know he was thinking it.
That's how Obama is an elitist, even moreso than Gore or Kerry. He's a smart, well-informed guy who really could look down his nose at you, if he were so inclined. On all sorts of issues, Obama would have every right to say: "You don't know what you're talking about."
You can almost picture him saying it. That bastard. Who does he think he is?"
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