The Winter of Our Disconnect: Tea Parties, Corporate Media and a Nation in Denial

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Excerpt:

American politics remains its usual predictable theatrical production of the banal and the boisterous. Sarah PalinSarah Palin writes crib notes on her hand and Corporate TV Media goes wild with spirited speculation about how this makes her unqualified to be president, as if she were unqualified before, as if being qualified for president were still a qualification for being president. A special thanks to George W. Bush for breaking that glass ceiling.

Telephonic robots make calls for soulless corporations who now have unlimited power to bankroll our elections and self-described conservatives talk about “preserving values” without a hint of irony in their accusatory vocalizations. This is conservatism? No, this is self-delusion.

Full column:
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/5214996-the-winter-of-our-disconnect

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1. Conserving what?

Does anyone else think "conservatism" is a misnomer when it comes to what self-described conservatives stand for this days?