Once again the do.rk has helpfully called out for us at the top of his post the parts of the article he's cut-and-pasted that he believes are the most important.
And that's a Good Thing, you see, because we just aren't smart enough to read the article and decide for ourselves what the most important parts are. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rflex@...> wrote: > > > The Tea Party's March of Folly: Idiocracy, Here We Come > > Jon Ponder | Aug. 19, 2011 > > "And it was no accident > that Republican fatcat operatives > recognized these dumbasses > as suckers whom they could > easily dupe into believing > that it was the government, > not big business, > that caused the financial collapse in 2008; > that tax cuts create jobs; > that corporations are people; > and on and on > > "or that a mild-mannered > DLC centrist Democratic president > who happens to be black > is actually a terrifying Kenyan > anti-colonialist Marxist > Muslim Nazi fascist illegal alien" > > "Maybe it's naive to think that ideological opponents can be > brought together by a common fear of mass stupidity: Call > it idiocraphobia." > > > -- In her Los Angeles Times column on Thursday, Meghan Daum made note of > the rise references in political commentary to the movie "Idiocracy," a > 2006 burp-and-fart, sci-fi political comedy set 500 years in the future, > written and directed by Mike Judge, the creator of the animated series > "Beavis and Butthead" and "King of the Hill": > > References to the film seem to be everywhere, and not just in > op-eds penned by cranky columnists... The latest issue of the > Economist has an article about the business-sabotaging effects of > the battles in Washington, headlined "American Idiocracy." > > A recent blog post on the Psychology Today website was headlined > "Idiocracy: Can We Reverse It?" Meanwhile, it's popping up in > causal conversations, Internet comments and, most notably, on > Twitter, where it often appears as a hashtagged topic > > Daum suggests that the movie has been given a second life... > > > Watch 'Idiocracy' Trailer: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=clYwX8Z43zg > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=clYwX8Z43zg> > > > Daum's hope is that interest in "Idiocracy" and the shock > of recognition of that society is being driven toward the future > it predicts will give pause to partisans on both sides and bring > them to their senses. > > "Maybe it's naive," she writes, "to think that ideological > opponents can be brought together by a common fear of mass > stupidity: Call it idiocraphobia." > > But, see, the problem here is not naivete. The problem with > this analysis is a reflexive reliance among media types on > the equivalency meme: both sides are equally guilty, equally > bad. A pox on both your houses... > > It wasn't "Congress" that behaved like stubborn toddlers. It > wasn't Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and > their caucuses who seized control of the debt-ceiling debate and > drove the United States' full faith and credit toward the brink > of default. > > Objectively, this stubborn behavior was only found among one > discrete faction: The radical know-nothing tea partyists. > > There is no equivalency between any group on the left or in the > middle and the tea party. > > No one else is so pliably dim-witted, so unmoored from reality > that they take it as faith that Jesus rode dinosaurs and the earth > is just 7,000 years old. > > Based on the flimsiest tissues of obvious bogus-ness, they > convinced themselves that Pres. Obama, a mild-mannered DLC > centrist Democrat is in reality a terrifying Kenyan anti- > colonialist Marxist Muslim Nazi fascist illegal alien. > > It is not surprising that Republican fatcat operatives have had > no trouble duping the tea partyists into believing that, for > example, it was the government, not big business, that caused > the financial collapse in 2008. That tax cuts create jobs, > and corporations are people. > > It is these people, the tea partyists not Democrats, > liberals, independents or even moderate Republicans who are > the idiocrats among us... > > Continue reading here: > http://www.pensitoreview.com/2011/08/19/tea-partys-march-of-folly-idiocr\ > acy-here-we-come/ > <http://www.pensitoreview.com/2011/08/19/tea-partys-march-of-folly-idioc\ > racy-here-we-come/> >
