I swear I don't understand the Sarah Palin phenomenon. We already had "a devoutly Christian just-plain-folks politician (completely owned by major oil interests)" running the country.
And we all saw how well Dubya's regime worked out.
On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that if there'd been somehow a choice between McCain and Dubya, this last Presidential election, the guys who voted for McCain would have voted for Dubya instead. So maybe it's not such a mystery after all. There's a Japanese folk saying, "Medicine can't cure idiots."
I understand the Palin phenomenon completely. For the True Believer the only thing that matters is the ideology. Or idiotology? Because it doesn't matter whether the ideology could actually work; it SHOULD work, because it is philosophically correct, and if it hasn't worked in the past it only means we haven't run head first into the brick wall hard enough and often enough yet. If we keep doing it, we're bound to punch through
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Palin's book is one big blame and complaint track -- but in the intro, she writes, "I don't like complainers." She credits herself for several projects that failed horribly. She calls herself a 'uniter' for proposing a energy policy that would satisfy ecological and business concerns -- neglecting to mention her energy policy went no where because both environment and economic lobbies called it ludicrous. The 'most helpful' ranked review for her book on Amazon.com was complete sarcasm written by satirical blogger, Jesus General. The book was claimed a masterpiece before it was written, and a 'best seller' before it was available for sale. Meanwhile, the publishers are mostly giving the books away.
Seriously though -- if we gave the Palin political disaster a serious sociological study, we might be able to find some sort of cure for what is destroying democracy in America.
Well, as a writer (or I think I am), I recognize that she has a great advantage once she gets away from that live TV camera and into the pages of her own book. In that venue she gets to change what she and her enemies said into what she WISHES they had all said. It's hard to lose an argument in those conditions.
...yes -- and the rumor is that she didn't quit her office in Alaska, but was forced out.
And yet -- she is still popular against all evidence that she is an idiot. So why is that? Do idiots love each other or something? There's value into studying this.
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And we all saw how well Dubya's regime worked out.
On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that if there'd been somehow a choice between McCain and Dubya, this last Presidential election, the guys who voted for McCain would have voted for Dubya instead. So maybe it's not such a mystery after all. There's a Japanese folk saying, "Medicine can't cure idiots."
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Palin's book is one big blame and complaint track -- but in the intro, she writes, "I don't like complainers." She credits herself for several projects that failed horribly. She calls herself a 'uniter' for proposing a energy policy that would satisfy ecological and business concerns -- neglecting to mention her energy policy went no where because both environment and economic lobbies called it ludicrous. The 'most helpful' ranked review for her book on Amazon.com was complete sarcasm written by satirical blogger, Jesus General. The book was claimed a masterpiece before it was written, and a 'best seller' before it was available for sale. Meanwhile, the publishers are mostly giving the books away.
Seriously though -- if we gave the Palin political disaster a serious sociological study, we might be able to find some sort of cure for what is destroying democracy in America.
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And yet -- she is still popular against all evidence that she is an idiot. So why is that? Do idiots love each other or something? There's value into studying this.
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