Via Taibbi - Man. Can’t put it here because the language alone will melt your face. But that’s about one of the most cathartic things I’ve ever seen.
Not a pitchfork, a Louisville Slugger
October 23rd, 2009 12:47 pm · 1 comment
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| citydweller 10/25/09 6:02 PM | If he were more...um, "politely" articulate, I'd want to see him on a ballot somewhere. And that's just scary right there. I don't care who ya are. Maaaaybe it's just an act. But the thing is, his facts and figures are about right on. As is his, um, local-style rage. Music, attic room and all. See, all across America there are millions of.... shall we call them "underinformed Americans" to be nice?.... folks who understand at a basic level that Wall Street and Corporate America™ are screwing us into oblivion, with the seeming full cooperation and assistance of both parties and multiple administrations, and these people might be "simple", but they ain't flat-out dumb. They may not know, or even know how to know or understand the complex and intricate details of the collapse-by-design economic theory that increasingly pervades their world, but as it reaches the news-waves in ever-clearer forms, and as wave after wave of the shock effects hit their world and devastate it, they are waking up. And they are angry. Very angry. They didn't want a world utopia. Just 40-hours-a-week, a union, a wife-n-kids, some beer, some fun, a chance to "retire" someday on their front porch after tinkering with the Chevy a while, and a little stability to surround all that. They're starting to figure out that someone seems to have taken all that away, possibly forever. And now more and more of them would like to identify that someone, or something, and get their pound of flesh. Because frankly, many think that's all they have any chance of getting at this point. And so folks like this guy come along. And whether he's "one of them" who started looking into all this and just flipped his skull open, or whether he's a "smart person" just playing for the crowd, he's actually right. Just in the coarsest possible terms. Look forward to more, and probably much more that is undeniably genuine. Anyone got a national rye crop gone bad? |
