It must be really easy to be a right-wing political operative. There's an uncritical laziness of thought that must be a relief after you allow yourself to wallow in it. You get to talk big and sit at the tough-guy table. You have pre-defined templates for attack and defense: FUD your primary offense, and for the fallback defense is FOTUGI (Feign Outrage, Take Umbrage, Get Indignant).
Why this works, rather than being laughably incoherent, is an enduring and depressing mystery. That the same guys who castigate those facing economic hardship as "whiners" can get away with developing delicate sensibilities when they are called on their presumptive leader asking his staff how many houses he has is farcical, but not enough people are laughing.
Colbert has solved that mystery.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand what you mean. Colbert is funny, but he preaches to the choir. It only works for people like you and me who are already in on the joke. Doesn't really illuminate why so many people fall for this uncritically. The simple answer is that people are stupid. Unless I'm missing something.
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