The term is "sucker."

[SoCalDem]

Life in These Untied States

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellis-weiner/life-in-these-untied-stat_b_187862.html


So, to sum up:

1. People who make far less than 250K per year, whose tax rates will be cut, spent Wednesday out in public demanding that Obama stop increasing their taxes. They proudly marched and defiantly yelled and etc., etc., insisting with waved signs and shaken fists on their opposition to something that is not the case. They have made it their business to prevent something from happening that was never going to happen in the first place--and they mean it!

2. These same people, whose economic and physical well-being are a matter of supreme indifference to the richest families in America, have been persuaded to insist on policies that will only benefit the richest families in America. There is a term for these people, and it isn't "right-wing" or "conservative" or "patriotic" or even "Republicans." The term is "sucker." These people are suckers. They have been tricked and manipulated into working against their own interests and for the interests of people who could literally not care less about them. Their patron saint isn't Barry Goldwater or Thomas Paine or Ronald Reagan or Jesus H. Christ. It's P.T. Barnum.

3. People who would be forced into bankruptcy by an attack of appendicitis, who have no idea what "socialism" is or how it differs from "communism" or "fascism," were to be seen Wednesday out in force, self-righteously pissed off and calling Obama a socialist, a communist, and a fascist, often interchangeably. And what are their ideas about how to deal with the worst economic crisis in eighty years? "Let them go bankrupt!" Ignorance and indignation: it doesn't get any more American than that. Each of them--proud, free, unafraid to speak stupidity to power--is like a homeowner whose house is on fire and yet who refuses to let the fire fighters turn a hose on the flames because "it'll get my stuff all wet." And when the fire chief ventures the suggestion that the fire is a) going to destroy their stuff anyway, and then b) spread to other homes, he gets shut down with such wised-up, common-man arguments as, "I pay your salary!"

4. Glenn Beck--a prancing, sobbing, gibbering buffoon who will say literally anything to keep his audience's attention--has become the new spokesperson for the right. Yes, just when you thought Sean Hannity was, not only as bad as it got, but as bad as it could get, here comes the next level in televised right-wing demagoguery. Glenn Beck--whom Dickens himself would delete from a novel as being "too obvious"--is a star. As a consequence of this...


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1. K&R

"...These same people, whose economic and physical well-being are a matter of supreme indifference to the richest families in America, have been persuaded to insist on policies that will only benefit the richest families in America. There is a term for these people, and it isn't "right-wing" or "conservative" or "patriotic" or even "Republicans." The term is "sucker." These people are suckers..."

Also known as Useful Idiots.

My freeper in-law, who believes any crap the lunatic fringe pours into his head, is part of this crowd.

That his work hours have been cut even as his workload has increased... that he's drowning in credit card debt... that, even after 2 or 3 mortgage mods and re-fi's, he's on the verge of losing the home no sane lender should have allowed him to buy in the first place...

None of this has put a dent in his stupid allegiance to the right-wing ideology of the Overlord Caste that's been using and abusing him his whole damned life.

Some people are beyond stupid, beyond short-sighted. It's like a sickness, an addiction or perhaps an intractable infection of the brain.

And I don't think there's any cure. Some people just cannot be reached by reason, cannot be persuaded to act in their own interests no matter how horribly they're hurting themselves.

That's the scourge of the right wing, yet still we hear Dems mewling about "reaching out" and "bipartisanship" and all that horse-shit.

You want bipartisanship? Marginalize these people, run them over or go around them. Get something solid, useful and real done for the American people. The ones who matter. Stand up on two legs and get some progressive legislation passed for the rest of us, then the support will come from those capable of seeing reality in front of their faces.

Who won this fucking election, anyway?

:grr:

[HowHasItComeToThis]

2. SO SO SAD

[AllieB]

3. K&R

[Nikki Stone1]

4. I agree with the end of the article:

"Or is all this manipulated, phony "grass-roots" outrage fated to lead to some serious danger to innocent people? For every thousand citizens who gather in public to scream idiotic slogans and proudly flaunt their ignorance, how many more are laboring away in basements and garages, building bombs or assembling arsenals? How many does it take to lead to disaster?"

This is what I am afraid of.

[JBoy]

5. K&R. There's some great stuff in this article!