ha thank god for the onion.
although i would have thought in an ad like that they would have included something about china being communist or whatever and tied that in with how u.s. government is secretly communist and what not. Maybe try to convince us that all of this "offshoring" of employment to asia is what our alien of a president is actually trying to do. Once again serving the interest of not just a u.s. big government but any big government. Now that i think about it they probably could have made the ad even worse than it was.
Or maybe it was more subdued because independents are less likely to accept that particular narrative.
And about the oreilly palin video where he makes her look stupid, there obviously isnt one clear concise conservative narrative to this election so what does that mean? Is Bill O'Reilly a "Red Dog" conservative now? Im not gonna lie i have a little nostalgia for O'Reilly... The whole tea party thing is pretty tacky.
I just cant help wonder what will/would happen to all of the people (tea partiers) supporting what is essentially the same economics that Ron Paul supported in 2008. Although that doesnt include his foreign policies so much, as some of them are in line with the democrats u could probably say. For instance he doesnt advocate proliferation of capitalism and democracy with foreign militaristic intervention. But those tea partiers seem to essentially be shooting themselves in the foot with their economics. The idea of a completely free market directly translating into their own individual freedom is a pretty sad thing to watch as i have family that are proponents of this. Kind of reminds me of an adolescent teenager wanting parental emancipation, for something as silly as the enforcement of a midnight curfew.
The Tea Parties Brain - The Atlantic
So you have all that versus the keneysians like
paul krugman in the nytimes.
Yet no one in washington seems to be willing to step up and support an economic philosophy that could possibly save the democratic party as we have come to always know it, that is, not necessarily for better imo, but Krugman has been doing a pretty good job of calling them out on that, and it's satisfying to see. But the lack of ambition of the last 2 years on the part of the dems is puzzling nonetheless. A lot of that seems to have come down to a complete mucking of a PR war between the two most popular political spectrums. Im sure it is surprising a lot of people considering how well Obama handled the PR war during the 2008 elections.
The whole election is still just as depressing and confusing as any other one though. Im pretty much voting simply because i wouldnt want something "as bad" as not voting on my conscious. Talk about negative motivation...