Tea Party

[purejuice]

The Tea Partiers are not, as I deduced from a previous NYT story, boomers out of work. There's a new NYT poll which explains who they are.

I am ready to consign them to the scrapheap of history I shall dub The Racist Backlash Against the 1965 Voting Rights Act That LBJ Said Would Last 50 Years. Five years to go. Buh-bye.

I must say, I think the blogosphere pundits' Gotcha, argue with every word uttered by every asshole on the planet, attitude, is counterproductive. Ignore them, deprive them of a venue, do not repeat or listen to what they say, and they will go away.

Comments

[the-sikh-geek.livejournal.com]

As The Charm often points out to me, pro-wrestling has a bigger audience than Glen Beck. They are lucky, and probably thankful, to get all the attention they do (and don't deserve).

[panjianlien.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Depriving trolls of oxygen is very effective. Don't know why it is that Americans these days seem to feel that every fuckwit and assclown "deserves" discourse space.

And there's a difference between open discourse and entitlement. It's called discernment of worth.

An open discourse that actively strives to discern worth and pursue it can allow any idea but still get somewhere in the end.

Entitlement eats its own shit.

[minniethemoocha.livejournal.com]

Punditry is porn. People engage passively and in shallow ecstasy, like lab rats pressing a button for stims, through the desire to feel the flood of righteousness. Gushes of words in clever or bombastic configurations that disengage critical thought. Once I discovered that nugget of truth, I quit reposting-without-comment and thus hit a place where I write mainly in solitude, figuring out all over again what I think and why, and how and when it changes with the intake of new information. But so hard to find the data amid the opinions.