Taibbi: the Tea Party Moron Complex By rallying behind dingbats and morons like Palin and Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party has made anti-intellectualism its rallying cry.
If you want to understand why America is such a paradise for high-class thieves, just look at the way a manufactured movement like the Tea Party corrals and neutralizes public anger that otherwise should be sending pitchforks in the direction of downtown Manhattan.
There are two reasons why Tea Party voters will probably never get wise to the Ponzi-scheme reality of bubble economics. One has to do with the basic sales pitch of Tea Party rhetoric, which cleverly exploits Main Street frustrations over genuinely intrusive state and local governments that are constantly in the pockets of small businesses for fees and fines and permits.
The other reason is obvious: the bubble economy is hard as hell to understand. To even have a chance at grasping how it works, you need to commit large chunks of time to learning about things like securitization, credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations, etc., stuff that’s fiendishly complicated and that if ingested too quickly can feature a truly toxic boredom factor.
So long as this stuff is not widely understood by the public, the Grifter class is going to skate on almost anything it does -- because the tendency of most voters, in particular conservative voters, is to assume that Wall Street makes its money engaging in normal capitalist business and that any attempt to restrain that sector of the economy is thinly disguised socialism.
Thsi alternet site she keeps quoting is one of the biggest jokes on the Internet except for those conspiracy tin foil hat theorists who still think the National enquirer prints only the truth!! rofllol
The more LJ quotes it the more I realize how far out there she is!!! rofllol
The Viking wrote: Thsi alternet site she keeps quoting is one of the biggest jokes on the Internet except for those conspiracy tin foil hat theorists who still think the National enquirer prints only the truth!! rofllol
The more LJ quotes it the more I realize how far out there she is!!! rofllol
Interesting. I feel the same about you and Outdoor when you post from Newsmax or Fox.
Exactly... It's as viable and filled with "truthyness" as NewsMax, FauxNews and WorldNutDaily. Just the other side of the coin.
The Rightie-sources are just as invalid, and lame to me. I'm not under any requirement to post from sources that the Righties "approve of." I post from the sources that I believe in. In fact, if it was a source the Righties approved of, I probably wouldn't be posting from it.
thanks i marked it as a favorite - may not agree with a lot of it but open to reading.
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"The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." attributed to Margaret Thatcher
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government." Thomas Jefferson
neptunechimney wrote: Amazing how many gullible people there are, isn't it?
Totally! That was my first thought when I saw how many followers Residenttroll has on his Twitter account! rofllol
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
LadyJazzer wrote: In fact, if it was a source the Righties approved of, I probably wouldn't be posting from it.
Quote it, fess up, you would never read it. In fact, if you clicked on the link your eyes would boil out of your head like a vampire exposed to light.
Amazing how many gullible people there are, isn't it?
Oh, I read it...whenever I need a good laugh...and to take a break from reading the TRUTH on the left-of-center sites I generally read for my NEWS.
Yep... It really is amazing how many gullible people there are. Why, there are even some that think that Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck are intelligent and/or sane.
