Schiavo/MLK/RFK

[oddtext]

i figured out why terri was the great cause for conservatives.
conservatives, or, as noam says, radical statists, can't liberate a race like MLK -- they can't threaten power. no sir.

they do have an interest expanding state power and engendering a perception that the state is benign.

so, !TERRI! our cause is bedridden and brain dead!

she's no threat.

she becomes the image of softness and compassion. even if they succeed in their goal of limiting (perceived) state power (radical judges) and restore terri's feed-tube, terri's still bed-ridden, and moreover, brain dead. she's never a threat to the state even tho "liberated" from the tyranny of the radical judges.

if they fail (as was always clear), well, the result is obvious -- the
repukes play: radical activist judges and all those sound bytes ad
infinitum.

see where i'm driving? i think taking simply the facts of where schiavo things stand and the cause they've chosen to fight for is enlightening as to what conservatives believe democracy is.

semiotically, terri is the cynisism of conservative populism. there are no MLKs or RFKs in repuke ideology. the emancipated (were they to succeed) remain bedridden and brain dead. only miracles, not politics, truly save the emancipated. so, sit on the sidelines, 'murka, and let us (tom delay) mediate 'tween you and the lord above.


huh?

[applegrove]

1. You hit the nail on the head. They want to change the thinking of

Americans into 'the state should stay out of my privacy'. They want to make you think the state is

1) invasive
2) useless to you (as in the attempt at undoing SS and other policies.

These are opposites.

They count on American looking into the evil eyes of the Bush White House and being danced right outside their own basic needs as humans living in a Liberal Democracy. Cause if you are staring to hard..you are not watching where you are going.

In fact they are "re-branding" government. Government of the USA is your enemy. actually government is the enemy of the corporations and rich people it regulates..so that elites do not get too much power and a public good is delivered like 'safety' 'basic food for all' and other things they hate. 51 of the biggest 100 economies in the world are corporations..why wouldn't they want the voters in the USA to take out their own government (then there is nothing left strong enough to regulate them).

I guess you are supposed to scapegoat the government of the USA on behalf of corporations. You will hate the government of the USA coming and going (and that is what scapegoating is..hating something for the benefit of the sociopaths who need you to hate it - and not because it has done anything to you)

Thank god we are all on to them.

[oddtext]

2. i hope that we're all on to them!

but it takes some of us longer than others!

i think, and hope, that the confusion you note is making an impression on the 'murkin mind. it's called hypocrisy. i recognize it.

[applegrove]

3. Another word is sociopathy. That is going on too. Not so pretty but

very much what Americans are living through. The emotional exhaustion alone is particular to the victims of sociopaths (who as humans with feelings naturally include downtime (to process emotion and heal/grieve/evolve/rebuild strength)in their personal politics as well as their public ones. The whole heal/grieve/evolve/rebuild strength thing is the enemy of the sociopath because that is how we get wise.

But we all get wise anyway... (I went through something more awful but along the same lines a decade ago..so that is where I learnt the patterns - I'm so sorry to see America of all places be gutted and remade in the ego of a political operative. That is pretty sad. But you are all doing great here. And it warms my heart to see us all getting more sophisticated and less likely to hand our trust over to the sociopaths who deserve it not in any way).