As a resident of Bibleburg, I am most definitely living in a glass house when it comes to throwing my little stones. We are zoned for dingbattery here on a commercial scale, welcoming the likes of Industrial Christianity, Doug Bruce and Michelle Malkin with open arms, both of them on the right side of our sociopolitical body.
But no matter how powerful is the champ, there will always be contenders. Like Rutherford County, Tenn., where District 6 House candidate Lou Ann Zelenik (The Crazy) cites Martin Luther King in her opposition to a Muslim community center. (Full disclosure: I am related by marriage to more than a few residents of Tennessee, and while they are all batshit crazy, at least the majority of them are Democrats.)
Then there’s North Carolina, where Rep. Sue Myrick (The Crazy) says Hezbollah is partnering with Mexican drug cartels and may be planning “Israel-like car bombings of Mexican/USA border personnel or National Guard units.”
Leave us not forget Texas, where The Crazies want to reinstate sodomy laws, end the state lottery and federal sponsorship of pre-kindergarten schools, require that evolution and global warming “be taught as challengeable scientific theory,” and demand that Congress get US out of the UN — an old John Birch Society maxim once seen on billboards in these parts — and evict the global body from our shores.
The Birchers once opposed the fluoridation of the nation’s water supplies as a Communist plot to poison America. Maybe it’s time to start spiking the fluoride with a little lithium.
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I think there is a dominant gene for stupidity in Homo sapiens.
The woodpeckers are really out in force this year and it’s only a midcycle election year. I can’t wait to see what kind of BS will be flying over the air waves by then.
“I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”
If it wasn’t for delusional crazy people in power history would be really boring and Hollywood writers would have to think this stuff up on their own.
Gents,
Drilling for brain in America is pretty much a guaranteed dry well these days. Gen. Ripper was satire back in 1964 — today he’d be a Tea Party candidate for preznit.
But Ben, never fear. Hollyweird hasn’t had an original idea in, like, forever. They’ve been stealing their skittles and beer from them furriners acrost the pond since the Archie Bunker days. Why cerebrate when you can appropriate?
Dudes, Hollywood hasn’t had an original idea in so long I can’t remember, why else have they been having all the F*%(*&g comic book movies made? They’re releasing Jonah Hex this weekend, which was a 4th rate DC comic about a supernatural cowboy and a rip off of Ghost Rider. Not only are they mining comic books for their ideas but they are mining some very poor quality ore to do so.
Now what they need to make a movie about is Spike Bike…
I’ve worried for a long time that as the quality of education in the U.S. declined, we would be more vulnerable to nutjobs winning too many elections. Pretty soon, its not going to be just the right-wing Christo-Nazis forming collectives in rural U.S. Those of us who want to preserve some semblance of rationality in our lives will have to do the same.
Better oil up those shootin’ irons, Patrick. Too bad you sold the Weirdcliffe land.
We used to call places like Madison, WI the “Peoples Republic of Madison” back when it seemed like the Reps had the right idea about reducing big government and big spending, but now it looks like the liberal bastion just may be a Utopia for the forward thinking. When the far right looks like an old National Lampoon satire (Son ‘O God comics, etc.), the far left appears oh so rational. As khal points out, the right-wingers oozing out of the Idaho hills may force us into some remote outposts of our own. Maybe things won’t be so bad at the next election if Sarah Pallin is the best the Teabaggers can field for a candidate. I bet the Dems will find plenty of skeleton-filled closet of her’s to open for all to see if she does run.
I lived in Hawaii for 14 years and we were routinely referred to as the People’s Republic by the Elefink party or for that matter, by many of us cynical Democrats. Any one-party state can become a target-rich environment for political satire and that included Paradise, with its virulently big-government culture and rampant political corruption (ref, albeit dated, was Land and Power in Hawaii, by Gavan Dawes or for more recent stuff, Randy Roth’s book Broken Trust http://www.brokentrustbook.com/index.html).
Problem I see now is that the Republican Party has lost its mind. It is increasingly berift of intellect (no self-respecting Republican that I knew from my misspent youth would be caught dead with these people) and is grazing in a pasture of increasingly dumbed-down and scared Americans who don’t realize that they are letting these people dig their economic graves. Twenty five years of corporate greed and industrial flight abroad have not helped the working people of this country and pretty soon, they won’t even be able to afford to shop at Wal-mart and ignore the signs of history. The landscape is ripe for serious, serious trouble in the U.S. If we live long enough, I think we will see the earliest 21st Century as the twilight of the American experiment in democracy and free enterprise.