Saturday, February 14, 2009
Kind of an apocalyptic assessment from the msm
Patiently waiting my turn to use the computer at my local library after work the other day and browsed the magazine rack to kill time. First Newsweek caught my interest with its cover of 2/16 - We Are All Socialists Now - The Perils and Promise of the New Era of Big Government, I didn't know I was a socialist but thanx for enlightening me boys and then my eye caught The New Republic of 2/18 with its breathless Conservatism is Dead - An Intellectual Autopsy of the Movement by Sam Tanenhaus. I always knew TNR was liberal in political orientation but somehow I thought they had shaded themselves towards moderation over the years, wasn't quite The Nation know what I'm saying? Now all this because Bam was elected? A movement that's been around since like forever and is simply the collective mass reaction to the dominant liberalism of the day is no more? In this sense conservatism is largely reactionary by definition since as a movement it never really gets to call the shots at least in academia, the mainstream media (ok there's FOX), the judiciary and you name it. Liberalism is pretty much public policy these days, there's still a good chance you can get a welfare check but I didn't know Obama had such power that he wiped conservatism off the face of the map. The msm inhabits a rather weird universe, it's almost, oh I don't know, psychedelic?
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That's our stupid "conservative" politicians' fault because they try to be all partisan and reaching across the aisle BS so we never get what we want (wouldn't want to offend the libs ya know) but sheesh in three weeks Obama doesn't waste any time using his liberal Congress to get his agenda jumpstarted big time. It is so frustrating!!!
ReplyDeleteI know, we talked about this on the phone last night. Jonah Goldberg wrote this great column that in the old days before the great government bailouts bad businesses failed all the time and this is as it should be. In other words a capitalistic system involves, yes RISK and bad decision-makers would learn from their mistakes, market forces would cause you to do the right thing over time. Now with this bailout system in place (Bush did one giant lollapalooza and now Obama, how much money are we talking about here?) it's like the operative principles underlying capitalism cannot have free play anymore, God forbid should you let a business go under. It ain't communism, Danny says it ain't even socialism (yet) but whatever name you call it it's a crap hoagie with all the trimmings.
ReplyDeleteless is more, hey Lista?
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