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It's kind of fascinating how quickly the strip moves from insisting that Kari Lake has to have been cheated, because there's no way Right Wingers can ever lose elections, no way, to the insistence that the entire legislative branch is evil and corrupt and also pedophiles, to the whinging that Muir's sort has never been represented in DC before.
This is where the strip is now. The eternal whining of Muir's brittle-boned fascism while it apes patriotism so badly that any onlooker can realize that Muir actually hates the country.
We've had this conversation a couple of times but I still can't rally get a handle on what it is these people WANT. Like, if they had their way, what would normal everyday life in this country be like? What do they want the government to do that it normally doesn't? I know to the latter they would say "nothing", or "stay out of our lives!" But I don't know what that even MEANS for them. Tangibly. Concretely. Full privatization of all services currently provided by the government? No taxes? All education made private and those who can't afford it going unschooled? All roads and bridges and infrastructure built and maintained by private, for-profit businesses? No rules or regulations for workplace safety, public health, or food/drug safety? No minimum wage floor?
ReplyDeleteI don't know that they've thought about any of these things beyond mere abstractions and platitudes. Are they really prepared, mentally, for what all of that would actually mean, and stoked for it?
About the only thing I'm fairly sure they have thought through is the lifting of all EoE measures, as they're fully convinced -- consciously or not -- that white men by default are qualified and everyone else by default is not, or at least has to prove it.
I think most imagine the government running a military and police that only does the important business of threatening menacing brown people at home, nothing else. But aside from that, you nailed it, an imagined 'night watchman' state that they imagine they'd thrive in.
DeleteAgain, they're like housecats. Completely dependent on systems they don't understand, but imagining themselves to be the natural masters of the world.
Also, I've literally never heard of Voice of America before. I only know it exists now because I listen to a podcast that mentioned it in the context of, yes, Kari Lake. Is that weird?
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's that weird. You would have had to live overseas to really care about the effects of VOA. I will say that this situation is bittersweet to me, because when we lived in the Communist Eastern bloc, VOA was one of the stations we would try to catch to get news that wasn't censored by the Communist gov't. Of course, I'm guessing that now the station will be turned into despotic propaganda, proving once again that we can't have any nice things anymore.
DeleteMany online leftists are crowing about this. Partially because, yes, the CIA ran this. But mostly because anything that hurts their beloved imagined USSR was the worstest thing ever.
DeleteI assume you're referring to the cohort that other lefties often refer to as tankies?
DeleteSome of them are. Others aren't quite as extreme as that, but there's a great deal of misplaced nostalgia in some quarters for a state that was fond of sticking left-leaning political dissidents in mental institutions by the end. Somehow, Left Wing dictatorships only seem to get the "dictatorship" part right, with the 'leftism' turning into mouth noises covering up oppression and social conservatism.
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