Monday, September 13, 2010

The Week is off to a Fine Start. We Have a Front Runner for Insane, Pathological Right Wing Liar of the Week, Already. And it's Not Even 9 am Yet.

Keeping in mind that the Alaskan Pathological Liar and hands down champion of Reality TV, Mrs. Palin, already endorsed her (La Cage a Folle,) the lurid details coming out about Delaware teabaggerette Christine O'Donnell, presents a Reality TV plot line that is easily as much a "Must Watch" train wreck, as the saga of the Wasilla Snowbillys.


Let's recap as if it were a pitch to a TV executive. "We've got your sex. We've got your betrayal. We've got secrets and lies. We've got a very crazy lady who tries to lie her way out of every jam she gets herself into. It's like an Opera with out the singing. Or it's like "I Love Lucy," without the physical comedy. But we can add that in, if you want, for comic relief."


Now for the real synopsis. The tale goes off in several directions. Now the truth about the uncompleted college degree comes out. She did not pay all the tuition for her last term, and was a few credits short of earning her degree, as well. She had pay up, and take a class to close out both accounts.

But here is where it really gets all Reality TV, weird. She apparently was telling people, like employers, that she had in fact earned her degree. She (nervy, crazy lady) actually took one of those employers to court (dropping the case, later) for a sex discrimination claim because of a demotion (and later firing) based on the fact she really wasn't a college grad.

How delusionally warped is that?

I am not going to quote, but I will link.

Here's the part where I go all improv.

Isn't it funny how people of a certain political persuasion profess the superiority of smaller government and decry "political correctness" and "nanny statism" but the second they feel they got less than they believe they deserved, they run right to the government or the courthouse? They will do that even when they know they were wrong, when they lied, when the broke the rules. The being actually legally entitled, part, really has no bearing on their complaints. These people who seem to worship at the altar of self reliance and the "Pioneer Spirit" seem to be, once push come to shove, the biggest cry babies in the Kindergarten. Never mind they, while not to a person, but by and large, tend to be at least pathologically self delusional and contradictory, if not pathological liars.

Ok. I got my shots in there. And I don't think they are cheap. I might seem to be painting with a broad brush, but I tend to use just enough qualifiers to escape that charge. But still. There is this group dysfunction (by and large, perhaps not complete) with the American Right Wing, which allows them to overlook such obvious mental instability in candidates, even when and after such embarrassing details come to light. And I am not going off any research here. I am free styling. Seems to me that among the reasons for that is, that some of those people are so ideologically driven that what matters more to them is that their candidates are ideologically pure enough. Whether or not they are honest enough, or mentally stable enough is a secondary consideration. Seems to me, at least. Beyond that, I honestly think there is a sizable enough chunk of the population at large, and particularly more so of that political persuasion, who basically lead such messy, dishonest, delusional, and immature lives, that instead of having a negative view of of a "Hot Mess" such as Mrs. Palin, or the lesser known Ms. Christine O'Donnell, they have instant empathy.

It's actually more than mere ideological purity. It's a social and psychological empathy, between people who deeply identify with each other. Or perhaps it's the socio-political equivalent of co-dependence. I am going to end this with that French phrase I used above -- La Cage a Folle.

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