I'm in the majority now
10/20/06 12:25
I was
doing a little cleaning and straightening around the
bunker today and I found a yellow sticky note on
which I have written the following quotation from
John Kenneth Galbraith:
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
I don’t remember when or why I wrote that down, but when I read it again today I immediately flashed on dubya speechifying about an “ownership society” right after he was re-elected. He was going to use his 1% mandate to try to pull off the conservative wet dream; get rid of Social Security. I think that was probably the point where the public began to turn away from him.
Up until then it was all steely-eyed resolve and stay the course, we’ve turned a corner in Iraq rah rah flag waving, but when he started making noise about getting rid of the single most important liberal social program in our history the people finally took their attention off American Idol long enough to say “No thanks dipshit.”
It was his first real setback, but then Katrina came along and he stayed on vacation for a couple more days while New Orleans drowned. And now we’ve turned so many corners in Iraq that it’s become obvious to about two-thirds of the country that we are going in circles. I’m optimistic that I am seeing democracy in action in the US right now. It’s refreshing.
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
I don’t remember when or why I wrote that down, but when I read it again today I immediately flashed on dubya speechifying about an “ownership society” right after he was re-elected. He was going to use his 1% mandate to try to pull off the conservative wet dream; get rid of Social Security. I think that was probably the point where the public began to turn away from him.
Up until then it was all steely-eyed resolve and stay the course, we’ve turned a corner in Iraq rah rah flag waving, but when he started making noise about getting rid of the single most important liberal social program in our history the people finally took their attention off American Idol long enough to say “No thanks dipshit.”
It was his first real setback, but then Katrina came along and he stayed on vacation for a couple more days while New Orleans drowned. And now we’ve turned so many corners in Iraq that it’s become obvious to about two-thirds of the country that we are going in circles. I’m optimistic that I am seeing democracy in action in the US right now. It’s refreshing.
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