Reply #6: This is where "you people" make your big mistake [View All]

[Tansy_Gold]

You're underestimating her, and making fun of her, but "her people" know exactly what she means. So fine, if you wanta just shrug it all off as nonsense babble, feel free, but understand that you do so at your own peril.

I didn't see the Glenn Beck documentary and I have no desire ever to do so, but I know what Palin is talking about. Essentially, it's a form of Munchausen-by-proxy -- manufacturing a crisis, whether it's global warming or failing schools or banking meltdowns -- and then using the perception of the crisis to enact what is ultimately harmful (to the general public at least) legislation.

She's using a kind of reverse engineering, by labeling the policy as bad (because it interferes, usually, with exploitive but profitable business concerns) and therefore it must stem from a manufactured crisis. She gets her listeners/readers/twitterers (how apropos!) by the throat, going after their emotions FIRST so that an appeal to their reason results in a foregone conclusion.

The only thing that kept Sarah Palin from being elected VP was her abject stupidity coupled with McCain's age/health issues and his own poorly run campaign, If she had been paired with Romney or Huckabee, her inexperience (like Dan Quayle's) would not be a problem.

Like a personal acquaintance of mine, she's not as smart as she'd like us to think she is, but neither is she as stupid as we want her to be. And that's why she's so dangerous.




Tansy Gold