... and I'm not helping. But the real problem with yesterday's demonstrations is what's behind them. Of course they're foolish. As columnist Marc Cooper wrote on how to prepare for the demonstrations:
Go to a hobby store. Buy a scale model of a U.N. One-World-Government Black Helicopter and a tube of glue. Toss the model kit. Sniff the entire tube of glue. You're all set for the party.... are common folks actually going to dump Earl Grey into Santa Monica Bay because they are outraged, simply infuriated, by the marginal tax rate rising 3% for millionaires?
No. But, nutty as they are, the demonstrations are the saner, more public face of this:
The economic downturn and the election of the nation's first black president are contributing to a resurgence of right-wing extremist groups, which had been on the wane since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, according to a U.S. intelligence assessment distributed to state and local authorities last week.The report, produced by the Department of Homeland Security, has triggered a backlash among conservatives because it also raised the specter that disgruntled veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan might "boost the capabilities of extremists . . . to carry out violence."
The next four years will see a spike in the poor-white persecution complex:
• More Dixie flags
• More hatred of fake urban sophistication ("the hipster" will fall even further to become a national buffoon on SNL and sitcoms)
• Fetishization of the rural (trucks and "outsider art," more urban people getting all righteous about their gardens and chickens and compost piles)
• A new fad for Southern cooking in restaurants and bars
• More nü-country songs about the guts it takes to "stay country."
And, if the economy doesn't get better soon, more crazy honkies meeting in sheds and basements in their spare time, publishing paranoid websites and stockpiling guns.
Go to a hobby store. Buy a scale model of a U.N. One-World-Government Black Helicopter and a tube of glue. Toss the model kit. Sniff the entire tube of glue. You're all set for the party.
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