the next change we need

[larvatus]

Our newspaper of record reports the dilemma posed by Jon Stewart: “The press can hold it’s [sic] magnifying glass up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected, dangerous-flaming ant epidemic.” Undeterred by its second horn, the same issue offers Paul Krugman an opportunity to kvetch:

This is going to be terrible. In fact, future historians will probably look back at the 2010 election as a catastrophe for America, one that condemned the nation to years of political chaos and economic weakness.

For my part, the road ahead is so bright, I gotta tint my windshield. Unremitting financial hegemony of the smartest guys in the room doing “God’s work”, compounded by the executive arrogance of the καλοὶ κἀγαθοὶ extolling their likes as “very savvy businessmen”, have precipitated popular hatred of public intellectuals who have concluded that their responsibilities are to power alone. This hatred cannot be quelled by appeals to reason. As a result of universal suffrage, American politics needs rationality like a fish needs a bicycle. Its proper remedy is homeopathic, a dosage of President Palin galvanizing resentment against empowering stupid people, in a welcome reversal of the instant scenario.

Comments

[obzor-inolit.livejournal.com]

a dosage of President Palin... * Maybe but perhaps she would be clever enough not to do any governing by herself?

All in all I will welcome the epoch when it would be unfashionable to be stupid.