The Separate Reality:

[jrittenhouse]

…and besides, unlike the wife, I’ve never gotten through his works.

Regular readers will note that the tags I put on posts are plentiful and sometimes sound goofy; that may be because it’s conceptual shorthand to me. ‘kubler-ross’, ‘renmin’, or ’sep_reality’, for example. The first has to deal with posts on death and dying, the second has to

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[maiac]

The clinical description of Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a close match with Bush's behavior. I'm just sayin'.

[pyesetz]

This isn’t Republicanism. This isn’t Conservativism.

No, it isn't.  It's Feudalism, a.k.a. Neoliberalism, associated with Pinochet, Thatcher, Reagan, etc.  The ultimate goal is to recreate the lords-vs-serfs distinction in society, preferably by resurrecting the concept of "inherited guilt" so some people get stamped at birth as serfs and forbidden to ever move up (e.g., if your grandparents were illegal immigrants, you come into this world as a stateless bastard who can never become a citizen, exempt from minimum-wage laws, etc).

If you read history books (which are usually written by liberals), Feudalism is thoroughly unAmerican and attempts to impose it have repeatedly been stopped by our national heroes.  If you look past the books at the actual history that they're trying to bowdlerize, Feudalism is what America has always been trying to achieve, except for occasional crazy-liberal periods.

[jcw_da_dmg]

Jim, you have such an incredible knack for wording things like this.

[jrittenhouse]

I try.

[jrittenhouse]

Yeah, that's about their approach. Thinking and planning are for nancy boys. Real men go ZOOM and BIFF and POW!