I'm not angry, not at all. 'Cause if I were angry, I wouldn't be able to use big words. Here's telling analytical point from Harold Meyerson on conservative autocoprophagia:
American conservatism is a house divided against itself. It applauds the radicalism of the economic changes of the past four decades -- the dismantling, say, of the American steel industry (and the job and income security that it once provided) in the cause of greater efficiency. It decries the decline of social and familial stability over that time -- the traditional, married working-class families, say, that once filled all those churches in the hills and hollows in what is now the smaller, post-working-class Pittsburgh.
Problem is, disperse a vibrant working-class community in America and you disperse the vibrant working-class family.
Which is how American conservatism became the primary author of the very social disorder that it routinely rails against, and that Republicans have the gall to run against.
So, just to sharpen Meyerson's point a little:
On the one hand, conservative billionaire capitalists make billions (and we make nothing) by driving down wages toward a subsistence level. (Wasn't there some 19th Century guy who predicted that?) On the other hand, conservative pundits make millions denouncing what the billionaires caused.
I'd call that a win-win situation! What's not to like?
Oh, and autocoprophagic?
They make the shit they eat. The kind of cycle I'd call virtuous, if it weren't so vicious.
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"conservative"= cat shit?
Okay, I know "scat" is a general term for all sorts of species' feces, but I just find the term "cat scat" particularly enjoyable.
Plus I was yelling "scat!" repeatedly at my cats (and dog) as they insisted on helping with various office- and desk-rearrangement operations this morning as a computer had to get moved close enough to the router to work off an ethernet cable as I could not persuade the wireless thingy to work with the new one.
Sigh. Post storm operations proceed apace. May even get time to post some Walter Reed ain't the only problem related material later.