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Well, duh.
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After all, the reason the winger crowd can¹t find a way to be coherently angry right
now is because this country has no healthy avenues for genuine populist outrage. It
never has. The setup always goes the other way: when the excesses of business
interests and their political proteges in Washington leave the regular guy broke and
screwed, the response is always for the lower and middle classes to split down the
middle and find reasons to get ****ed off not at their greedy bosses but at each
other. That¹s why even people like [Glenn] Beck¹s audience, who I¹d wager are mostly
lower-income people, can¹t imagine themselves protesting against the Wall Street
barons who in actuality are the ones who ****ed them over. . . .

Actual rich people can¹t ever be the target. It¹s a classic peasant mentality: going
into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master¹s carriage rides by, then
fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending
fifteen hard hours in the fields. You know you¹re a peasant when you worship the very
people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your ****. Whatever the
master does, you¹re on board. When you get frisky, he sticks a big cross in the
middle of your village, and you spend the rest of your life praying to it with big
googly eyes. Or he puts out newspapers full of innuendo about this or that faraway
group and you immediately salute and rush off to join the hate squad. A good peasant
is loyal, simpleminded, and full of misdirected anger. And that¹s what we¹ve got now,
a lot of misdirected anger searching around for a non-target to mis-punish . . .
can¹t be mad at AIG, can¹t be mad at Citi or Goldman Sachs. The real villains have to
be the anti-AIG protesters! After all, those people earned those bonuses! If ever
there was a textbook case of peasant thinking, it¹s struggling middle-class Americans
burned up in defense of taxpayer-funded bonuses to millionaires. It¹s really weird
stuff.
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SLAVE of THE STATE wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/546pnq

I like the graphic a lot, I'll probably steal it and re-use it some time.

Fred Fredburger wrote:
SLAVE of THE STATE wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/546pnq

I like the graphic a lot, I'll probably steal it and re-use it some time.

You know it's from "Meet the Fockers," right?

Susan Walker wrote:
Fred Fredburger wrote:
SLAVE of THE STATE wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/546pnq

I like the graphic a lot, I'll probably steal it and re-use it some time.

You know it's from "Meet the Fockers," right?

Most of those Ben Stiller movies blend together for me. "Mystery Men" is
an exception.

Fred Fredburger wrote:

Most of those Ben Stiller movies blend together for me. "Mystery Men"
is an exception.

"OK, now I'm going back to graduate school. That was the agreement."

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:30:03 -0700, Fred Fredburger
wrote:

Susan Walker wrote:
Fred Fredburger wrote:
SLAVE of THE STATE wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/546pnq

I like the graphic a lot, I'll probably steal it and re-use it some time.

You know it's from "Meet the Fockers," right?

Most of those Ben Stiller movies blend together for me. "Mystery Men" is
an exception.

Tropic Thunder was another exception. Heart warming...

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

On Sep 18, 4:13*am, Susan Walker wrote:
Fred Fredburger wrote:
SLAVE of THE STATE wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/546pnq

I like the graphic a lot, I'll probably steal it and re-use it some time.

You know it's from "Meet the Fockers," right?

"Puff was simply the name of the boy's Dragon. You a pothead Focker?"