Wolcott, worth reading ...
A lot of liberal blogs are having a comedy festival over the loonybird utterings of Palinette Christine O'Donnell, Delaware's witchcraft-dabbling anti-wanking Tea Party majorette Senate candidate, but we may be past the point where such spectacles can be laughed off the stage.
If David Seaton is correct, highlighting the crazy, contradictory, cult-speak shit spewed by Palin and Tea Partiers is missing the point and misunderstanding the aberrant pathology that is juggernauting.
Such crazy shit isn't rabid froth or rogue electricity, it's a deliberate toxin being released into the body politic. O'Donnell may not know what she's doing beneath the ditzy soundbites, but those who have loaded the hypodermic do.
Seaton:
If people really understood that there wasn't going to be future abundance on its previous scale, that it was going to be like in a lifeboat, or like the buried miners in Chile, with only so much water and so much food, survivors would demand, as in a lifeboat, that the provisions be shared equitably. This would mean that people with huge fortunes would have to take an enormous haircut, as their abundance would have to be shared out... they don't like that idea one bit.
They don't want anybody else to like that idea either and that costs a lot of money to pull off ...
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