Krugman is Correct. But Too Narrow in Focus.
The Xmas truce is almost upon us. I still have a little wrapping left to do but I am as ready for this damned thing as I likely ever will be, this year. Anyway, I just read this oped from Krugman. And as usual, his analysis is spot on. However, he misses the forest for the trees, in a manner of speaking.
He aims his arrows at Mittens, for being a flat out liar. That's true. Mittens is a serial liar. However. Um. Actually They All Lie Like Rugs.
There is this great line in the piece:
Welcome to post-truth politics.
Or as Steven Colbert would say, truthiness politics. I'll get back to that, but when I read that, I thought, hmm. The level of rhetoric Mittens is spewing is not really any different than that lying assed bullshit thrown about during the 2008 election. Nothing new going on here, people. In fact, I was put in mind of a conversation I had with an ex friend, who unsurprisingly (as should become clear in the next couple few sentences) turned out to be an evil liar. This was before the 2008 election, and of course she's a delusional wing nut. She said to me that Obama was a socialist, and she could prove it. My reply to that was to ask her, if she thought I was a socialist. She said no. And then I told her, that Obama charts to the right of me on the political spectrum. If I recall correctly, she never threw that insane, bat fucking delusional nonsense my way again. However I am pretty sure that no matter the facts, she still believed, and likely still believes, on some fucked up level, that Obama is a socialist.
How does that work? My guess, and I have said it time and again here, is that there is some weird way that wingnuts can suspend operation of cognitive dissonance. A sane and healthy mind would have trouble maintaining the lie in their heads, that Obama is a socialist. But for a wingnut, all that matters is the hate. Doesn't matter what the definition of the word is. It's an insult. It's an accusation. It's a vehicle for the delivery of some twisted, deep, dark animus that is primordial or some sort of sub sub level of lizard brain function.
Back to Mittens. Mittens is just playing that game. It doesn't matter that Obama and Mittens are in the same neighborhood, on the economic philosophy scale, relatively speaking. Details don't really mean shit here. What really matters for GOP politics is cultivate the hate. Nurse the hate. Exploit the hate.
And on that note, happy holidays. Oh. One further matter. I said this over on my FB page a couple days ago. Let me try to find it:
He aims his arrows at Mittens, for being a flat out liar. That's true. Mittens is a serial liar. However. Um. Actually They All Lie Like Rugs.
There is this great line in the piece:
Over all, Mr. Obama’s positions on economic policy resemble those that moderate Republicans used to espouse. Yet Mr. Romney portrays the president as the second coming of Fidel Castro and seems confident that he will pay no price for making stuff up.
Welcome to post-truth politics.
Or as Steven Colbert would say, truthiness politics. I'll get back to that, but when I read that, I thought, hmm. The level of rhetoric Mittens is spewing is not really any different than that lying assed bullshit thrown about during the 2008 election. Nothing new going on here, people. In fact, I was put in mind of a conversation I had with an ex friend, who unsurprisingly (as should become clear in the next couple few sentences) turned out to be an evil liar. This was before the 2008 election, and of course she's a delusional wing nut. She said to me that Obama was a socialist, and she could prove it. My reply to that was to ask her, if she thought I was a socialist. She said no. And then I told her, that Obama charts to the right of me on the political spectrum. If I recall correctly, she never threw that insane, bat fucking delusional nonsense my way again. However I am pretty sure that no matter the facts, she still believed, and likely still believes, on some fucked up level, that Obama is a socialist.
How does that work? My guess, and I have said it time and again here, is that there is some weird way that wingnuts can suspend operation of cognitive dissonance. A sane and healthy mind would have trouble maintaining the lie in their heads, that Obama is a socialist. But for a wingnut, all that matters is the hate. Doesn't matter what the definition of the word is. It's an insult. It's an accusation. It's a vehicle for the delivery of some twisted, deep, dark animus that is primordial or some sort of sub sub level of lizard brain function.
Back to Mittens. Mittens is just playing that game. It doesn't matter that Obama and Mittens are in the same neighborhood, on the economic philosophy scale, relatively speaking. Details don't really mean shit here. What really matters for GOP politics is cultivate the hate. Nurse the hate. Exploit the hate.
And on that note, happy holidays. Oh. One further matter. I said this over on my FB page a couple days ago. Let me try to find it:
I officially declare the Holiday Truce. See ya later!Wouldn't it be great if all the GOP Congress critters, and other right wing political hacks, and all the minions, for that matter, who who support them ALL got Scrooged this year?
And to be specific, not only Scrooged, but that the after effect sticks with them for life. Being filled with the spirit of generosity and good will towards others, helping the needy, and all that, but more importantly no longer believing it's ok to act like dicks.
Labels: evil. wing nut bullshit, liars, Mitt Romney, stupid shit
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