Funny, but didn't Newsweek say we were all socialists a few years ago? The truly socialist duo of Thomas Frank and Adolph Reed Jr. blow 12,500 words lamenting President Obama as a 'cipher' and a 'corporate tool' who they've discovered isn't "that in to them". I guess the coming of the black Jesus didn't immanatize the eschaton after all. The actual Salon article is mega long and really sappy, sort of like when you were trapped with that girl who just got dumped and she sobs and whines for hours with her mascara running and snot leaking from her nose - yuck. I recommend reading the Taranto summary - he's very understanding and brought a whole box of kleenex, just like you wish you'd done when the snot queen trapped you. But what I want to know is what am I going to do with this Karl Marx Centennial Proletarian Decoder Ring that I got from eating all those boxes of Trotskies? Boo hoo, sob, honk!
But the real question is if we're all right wingers now, then what does that make me? A paleo-crypto-monarchist? No, it makes me a 'Goddist' - Old Testament division - and not the sappy Old Testament where God sympathizes with David that it is hard to be King and sometimes you just need to murder your best friend because you knocked his wife up while he was off fighting for you. Poor Davey Wavey. No, I'd have to be the type of Goddist that does all the smiting and burning down of cities - you know, the kind who when there's a labor contract dispute in Old Egypt doesn't opt for the all night negotiating session but instead kills the first born of the entire management team and all of the customers.
You know, a hard ass.
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