This Is Just Formality

Dennis Prager tries a triple reverse backflip twirl in order to show how the fact that everyone hates Republican policies and Republican politicians is good news for Republicans.

Today's most widely accepted political belief is that because an unprecedentedly high percentage of Americans -- 81 percent -- believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, the Republicans are headed for a major defeat this coming November.

If this is the case, it can only be because the American voter translates "headed in the wrong direction" as "because the Republicans have had their way, so it's time to let the Democrats have theirs."

That should not be the case. I count myself as one of the 81 percent who believes America is headed in the wrong direction, and that is precisely why I am voting Republican. Moreover, I suspect I am not alone among the 81 percent in ascribing the wrong track to the leftist, not the conservative, influence on American life.

I suspect he's not alone either, nor will ever be; Emily will always have her Homer, after all.

Maybe you could try to tell them that they're fucked because of their stupid war and their shitty economy, but they won't listen. "Love the pointless death and suffering, you ignorant, treasonous bastards"! That's the GOP rallying cry this season, and as cynical as I am, which is nigh poisonous, I just don't see how that's a feel-good winner for them at the polls. But they will chase that tail until they're dizzy, or, well, even more dizzy than usual:

So 81 percent of Americans are right. We are on the wrong track. But the future of America entirely depends on what track it is most Americans think is wrong, and if they really believe that the radical "change" Obama and the Democrats advocate will be the right track. If so, it may mark the beginning of the end of the America that our parents and their parents and their parents back to America's founding lived in. The left, given its demonization of America's history, would welcome that. Would the American people?

Gosh, one wonders why the American people should ever have been entrusted with the capacity to decide anything in the name of the American people in the first place, if the American people just might decide to vote for things the American people would fundamentally reject because they are the American people.

The problem with Conservative Thought nowadays is that this sort of tripe is all that it is. It comes bottled in "fancy intellectual" and "hardworking just plain folks" varieties, but it's all the same crap.

They have nothing. They. Have. Nothing.

Comments

[American Citizen]

It's the old 'conservatism can't fail, it can only be failed' thing, with a side serving of 'if only Ward Churchill had not single-handedly kept up the morale of Iraqi insurgents, it would be all rosepetals over there'.

[Jay B.]

Gas prices? It has nothing to do with the fact that our oil man president lied his way into a war with a major oil producing country -- it's because of leftist influences, like, oh, hell, gays.

The economy in the shitter? Um...blacks. Foreclosures? No, silly, its not predatory lending and massive deregulation, it's because of some deviant movie! Yeah, that's the ticket.

When a deep red province in Mississippi votes D instead of a garden variety Jeff Davis luvin' wingnut, life is and will be a terrible bitch for assholes like Prager. They have only begun to whine.

[Davis]

Yeah, Prager is not alone in thinking that our problems are the fault of the Left. After all 28% still think Bush is doing a good job.

[Batocchio]

Style points for the Faulkner link. Made me laugh.

[zhak]

These people often evoke America's past, her "heritage" in their claims that they are the true patriots, etc etc. But it's been American progress (which the Republicans have traditionally fought tooth and nail) that brought her to her zenith. And with the Dems of today far too timid & conservative to actually do any of the shaking up that this country needs, I don't see that we have much chance in future, even if we win. But a bad Democrat is better than the best Republican (an oxymoron of sorts) on any given day.

There is a legitimate & persistent fallacy in all the right-wing ravings about how they hold claim to what is true & wonderful about America's heritage: going all the way back to our founding fathers, it was the liberals who wished to break away from the burdens England forced America to carry. The conservatives who believed that loyalty to England came first were treated very harshly by the revolutionaries of the day. Many saw their properties destroyed and many more fled to Canada. There was nothing conservative about our nation's founding, and I'm damn sick and tired of the rightwing meme that says otherwise. It's every bit as silly as claiming our founding fathers were all united in Dr Dobson's version of "Christianity" ... oh, wait ...