*Note to the reader: Sincere, though easily lableled as
elitist-pseudo-intellectual-bullshit, commentary ahead!
Hi,
Just thought you might like a little laugh. It's so rare that a lefty
actually gets it right, as in this cuture war screed.
http://fuckthesouth.com
It's a little unnecess
dinner with Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity), but after all the years of
libel and slander I guess this guy just couldn't control his fingers.
Probably death throes at this point. After the November 2
hornswoggling the lid's nailed down pretty tight on the Dems. Now if
some reasonable (I know The Enlightenment is totally passe, but can't
I dream?) Republicans could locate their balls and put the screws to W
and his neo-con braintrust before Greenspan's (I figure he's the
epitomy of elite, intellectual snobbery. How the hell does he keep his
job in Philistineville?) lipflappin plumb drives all the international
debt-carriers out of our value-depleting market, we might not have to
actually re-enact (not that ritual where all the Bubba's drag out the
stars-n-bars, and force the short-straw-drawers to dress in blue for a
day, but the real thing with boomin uzis and spewin blood) the Civil
War.
As bad as I'd hate to have to go through customs at SAT, I think this
guy might be onto something.
I could use some cl
Norquist gets really close (2007, perhaps?) to drowning the government
in his bathtub who's gonna be crying the loudest, the givin blue
states or the takin red states? (BTW, who's idea was it to coopt the
color of international communism for the American right? I mean, you
guys are the masters at creating a purely symbolic reality, but this
really takes the cake! What's next? Barbara and Jenna sporting a Mao
jacket/Che t-shirt/Kim
that'll make the new K-Mart Sears a smashing success.)
The
Robert
P.S. I appreciate how you avoid the culture war in your column. How
long can you hold out as it's clearly becoming the only thing (I
hesitate to call it an issue, as it's hardly a point of debate.) that
moves the truly, though unnecess
David Blackmon to me
Well, I guess that guy is one of the Kerry fans who had to seek psychiatric
help following the election. It is pretty funny, though.
But the South is far from the Democrats' only problem here, brother. Take a
look at that Red/Blue map you mention (I don't know who picked the color
scheme, but frankly, I'd rather have blue, thanks) - especially the
county-by-county version, which is most instructive.
The South is solid, sure, but so is the
counties in "blue" states like
So basically, this guy pretty much needs to fuck everybody who lives outside
of a major metropolitan area on the East or West coasts. That's what it's
boiling down to for the Ds. Not a pretty picture, especially when one
considers that they will almost certainly put up yet another Northeastern
liberal senator (Hillary) as their nominee in 2008.
Now, Hillary will no doubt spend the next four years pretending to find God
(I can just see her now, getting dunked in the river by an evangelical
preacher with James Carville, Paul Begala and Big Bill standing on the
banks), and getting to the political right of the Republicans on as many
major issues as she can (she's already doing this on military spending and
immigration), but pretty much everybody outside of the major coastal metro
centers already recognizes the
which is why everyone they campaigned for in 2002 and this year lost.
I see the "Culture War" differently than most folks do, apparently. IMO,
it's not a breakdown between different races, or different sexual
orientations, or different views about God, it's a far more comprehensive
breakdown between rural/suburban areas and the big cities.
Sure, the Gay Marriage issue was voted down in 11 states, but I believe
Janet Jackson's bare breast brought far more people to the polls than those
ballot items did. I believe Michael Moore and Whoopi Goldberg and all those
leftist airhead movie stars who think their opinions should matter more than
some poor slob working as a welder's helper in
far more votes than any racial or religious tensions did.
The Democrats, rightly or wrongly, have come to be identified by these Red
County voters as the party that supports the "
only themselves to blame for this. They will continue to lose election
after election after election until they do something to change this, and
frankly, I don't know what they can do.
I saw one of these mini-debates on Chris Matthews' show last night that I
thought perfectly symbolized the real nature of the cultural divide in this
country, though probably unintentionally. The topic was the "Desperate
Housewives" promo that led into Monday Night Football last week, and the
furor that has caused.
Representing the political "right" in the segment was this 40-something year
old, chubby but pretty housewife from
"concerned parents" group whose name I didn't get. Representing the
political "left" was a loud, obnoxious white guy from the Communications
School at USC who kept calling the woman names, shouting her down every time
she tried to make a point, and just couldn't understand why it is that
parents of small children might have been a little upset that they thought
they were tuning in to watch a football game, and got 60 seconds of nudity
and sexual innuendo instead.
The point here is not to judge who is correct and who is not on this
particular issue (Terri and I watch Desperate Housewives every Sunday night)
- the point is that there are a hell of a lot more of those 40-something,
chubby but pretty housewives in this country than there are loud, obnoxious,
sanctimonious communications professors, and all of their votes count
exactly the same.
That's the basic problem the Democrats have - they've become a party
dominated by the communications professors of the world. That Party is run
out of three places:
the truth. The Republican Party is run by people from
That's why the Rs relate far better to the housewives than they do the
communications professors.
That's why the guy who wrote that screed has a whole lot more people to fuck
than just those who live in the South.
David
Robert Blackmon to David
Hard to disagree with any of this. Not that I would want to. The
Democratic Party is practically irrelevent to my concerns. I hope
they do nominate Hillary and that she goes through the 'spiritual'
machinations you describe. This process will hold a mirror up to those
sanctimonious partisans cashing in on their debased Christianity whild
demanding (c)(3) status.
Anyone who believed Kerry could beat Bush, with or without Diebold
delivering
The inevitability of simplicity is the right's greatest intellectual
achievement. The reductive nature of the propoganda allows everyone to
claim part of this triumph of real-man reality over effete theory, as
surely as a momentary lapse into spiritual ecstasy gets you the E
ticket to Heaven. It doesn't matter what your vote brings, or how you
tend to your morality, as long as you can crow about your two great
salvations.
There's something a little ironic (the liberal's favorite vice) in
writing this today. As the Longhorns beat the Aggies, it makes me
wonder if all those conservative Texas Exes know just how truly hated
they are by all the super-conservative Former Students. We
cosmopolitan
only purpose is to usher in winter, the Exes with their affinity for
hippified culture still begging to 'Keep Austin Weird', is the
greatest proof to an Authentic RealTexan of the work still to be done
to purify the state's soul. Don't get me wrong, I'm really glad UT
won, and I'll be lifting a few brews if they get a bowl bid, but every
year they defeat A&M it's just adding fuel to the backlash bonfire all
the Exes will eventually suffer through.
UT isn't just a football program. It is the official
the East Coast Liberal Establishment. It is exclusive, even with
50,000 students. It brags about its number 15 ranking in The Times of
second to Cal Berkeley in US public schools that made the list. The
average SAT score for entering freshmen is 46 points higher than at
A&M. It is the home of at least 4 Nobel laureates. While I'm sure the
breezy 40 Acres are roiled regulary by conservative hot air, at least
three of my favorite radical professors are still there brainwashing
the undergrads. And, it is still the place where young people from
hundreds of Beevilles will meet their first real live Jew, homosexual,
nihilist or homeless person. Hell, they might even befriend a couple
of these heathens!
From the Aggie perspective it is as plain as day that anyone who
cheers on the Longhorns is an inauthentic Texan - read Communist. The
best these traitors deserve is a never-ending stream of baseless, ad
hominem attacks. If that doesn't bring them to their senses, baseball
season is coming and with it a handy tool for beating some sense into
em.
On our current course it won't be long before we face a
peddle-to-the-metal-NASCAR-styled economic race to the bottom and a
justice system meting out Biblical sentences. At that point all the UT
poseurs are gonna wish they'd actually learned to ride a horse and
shoot a gun rather than simply magpieing their devotion the 'realness'
of it all. The really RealAmericans' ears are fine-tuned to
distinguish the difference.
Sure, the Dems don't speak to the welder's helper. Neither do the
Republicans, really. Soon enough, just as he was deluded into
believing that the welfare state was the cause of all his misery, he
will realize that his unquestioning devotion to hollow
corporopatriotism has left him just as miserable. He is legion, and
loopy liberals will be lucky to have been consigned to the dustbin of
history when he figures out that, once again, the joke's on him.
When will someone on the right spill the beans on the big plan? What
is the big payoff hidden in mass impoverishment? Who ultimately
benefits? When the opposition has been vanquished, their socialistic
apparatus destroyed, and the nation is still bankrupt, who do you
blame?
As the Democrats are held in thrall by University Communications
Departments, so the Republicans are the creators of the most
sophisticated professional communications apparatus the world has ever
known. Hell, they've managed to make the NFL promo and Janet Jackson's
breast into major cultural transgressions, giving the chubby (though I
absolutely believe well-meaning) housewives the ability to deny what
they really were: crass, calculated events to create interest in, and
income for, giant entertainment corporations. These 'degenerate'
producer clients, operate from the same free-market pathology as
RealAmerican companies like ConAgra, Halliburton, Caterpillar, Bank of
are just as pushy at the public trough. Their employees might tend to
vote for Democrats, but that doesn't mean their boards don't
understand, and participate in the construction of, the great public
disadvantage that is their bottom line.
Anyway, hope you had fun at the game. Best to Terri and the kids.
Robert
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