Naomi Klein: "the RNC has turned into a rally in favor of screwing Planet Earth.” Literally."

[kpete]

Capitalism, Sarah Palin-Style
August issue, The Progressive
Naomi Klein


Excerpted from the August issue of The Progressive magazine

What if the bailout actually works, what if the financial sector is saved and the economy returns to the course it was on before the crisis struck? Is that what we want? And what would that world look like? The answer is that it would look like Sarah Palin. Hear me out, this is not a joke.

Palin was the last clear expression of capitalism-as-usual before everything went south. That’s quite helpful because she showed us—in that plainspoken, down-homey way of hers—the trajectory the U.S. economy was on before its current meltdown. The core of her message was this: Those environmentalists, those liberals, those do-gooders are all wrong. You don’t have to change anything. You don’t have to rethink anything. Keep driving your gas-guzzling car, keep going to Wal-Mart and shop all you want. The reason for that is a magical place called Alaska. Just come up here and take all you want. “Americans,” she said at the Republican National Convention, “we need to produce more of our own oil and gas. Take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska, we’ve got lots of both.”

And the crowd at the convention responded by chanting and chanting: “Drill, baby, drill.”

Watching that scene on television, with that weird creepy mixture of sex and oil and jingoism, I remember thinking: “Wow, the RNC has turned into a rally in favor of screwing Planet Earth.” Literally.

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[orpupilofnature57]

1. The Dominion Theocracy ,Ronnie would have loved Sarah.

[glitch]

2. here's the link

http://www.progressive.org/klein0809.html

Hopefully after awhile they'll provide the rest of the article on the web for free. Not that I think they shouldn't make money and survive, but it would be nice after a new issue comes out to free up articles from the previous issue.

[applegrove]

3. Hitler was using masses of people in germany and elsewhere to screw the jews in europe.

Again and again and again he forced people to do in those poor people. Like many psychopaths he couldn't ****. So he metaphorically screwed lots of people. And all of Europe became the metaphor for Hitler's feelings for a time. The whole continent acted out Hitler's dramas.

This ignoring the environment and screwing the middle class could be the same thing to psychopaths like the neocons and Rove. I haven't figured Palin out totally but I think she is just an incurious pawn. Like the german people she just delivers the message...she doesn't create it.