Notes Matt Miller in the NYTimes today:
"Alienation is the only intelligent response to a political culture that insults our intelligence."
Agreed.
But what is really at work now that was not in play before is the POLITICS OF ID vs THE POLITICS OF EGO.
Or perhaps, the POLITICS OF ME vs. THE POLITICS OF WE.....
Rationalists, like most liberals, think in terms of "we" whereas the Republicans tend to be "me thinkers."
It's not easy thinking about the BIG PICTURE....you can see this everyday in these forums where people essentially argue..."I've got mine to Hell with you."
THIS IS QUINTESSENTIAL RIGHT WING THINKING....
Here's the problem:
IF WE LET THE "ME THINKERS" RUN THINGS LONG ENOUGH....EVENTUALLY THE ENTIRE SYSTEM COLLAPSES INTO AN ORGY OF GREED AND SMASH AND GRAB....we are almost there now!
But sooner or later, the ME THINKERS ruin things and the WE THINKERS have to be called in to put the pieces back together again.....example: The New Deal.
NOTE WELL: THE SYSTEM IS IN GRAVE CONDITION NOW....THE ECONOMY IS RUNNING ON STEAM FROM GREENSPAN'S ENDLESS BUBBLES...AND THE GEOPOLITICAL SITUATION IS OUT OF CONTROL...
UNLESS YOU THINK THAT THINGS ARE "OK" IN IRAQ, AFGANHISTAN, UZBEKISTAN, PAKISTAN, SYRIA AND LEBANON....AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST IN GENERAL....
Soon things will start to spin out of contol....and the Bush "Stupid like Me" crowd will be discredited......
THEN AND ONLY THEN WILL THE "WE THINKERS" BE CALLED IN TO CLEAN UP THE MESS......
......AGAIN!
Does that made things a little more clear.....?
