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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Fall of the House of Bircher
They were warned, but they did it anyway. Kept mollifying thugs. Kept flattering bigots. Kept slaughtering science to appease the theocrats and the garden-variety stoopid. Kept whispering to the stone crazy that their paranoia was patriotic. And, of course, kept on dehumanizing and demonizing patriotic, reality-based Liberals who were trying their damnedest to keep their Pretty Hate Machine from rolling back the whole Enlightenment.
Kept doing it all -- louder and louder and louder -- long after it was clear that their cause was a catastrophe and their followers were insane.
And now, once again, they want to bury the evidence of their crime: hammer the monster they created into a sarcophagus and hope to Heaven that their enablers in the Beltway Media can once again be relied on to cover their tracks.
Except...
Except...
Except for two generations their Grand Batshit Strategy hinged entirely on encouraging their Uruk-hai to be loud and proud about their ignorance, their casual racism, their screeching aggrieved rage and their myriad hilarious derangements.
And however hard the Conservative Money Caste tries to bury their bastards under a million yards of sweet, amnesiac dirt, they ain't going back into the cold, cold ground...
They built this.
We told them not to, over and over again, but they did it anyway.
Yes they did.
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-fall-of-house-of-bircher.html
Kept doing it all -- louder and louder and louder -- long after it was clear that their cause was a catastrophe and their followers were insane.
And now, once again, they want to bury the evidence of their crime: hammer the monster they created into a sarcophagus and hope to Heaven that their enablers in the Beltway Media can once again be relied on to cover their tracks.
Except...
Except...
Except for two generations their Grand Batshit Strategy hinged entirely on encouraging their Uruk-hai to be loud and proud about their ignorance, their casual racism, their screeching aggrieved rage and their myriad hilarious derangements.
And however hard the Conservative Money Caste tries to bury their bastards under a million yards of sweet, amnesiac dirt, they ain't going back into the cold, cold ground...
They built this.
We told them not to, over and over again, but they did it anyway.
Yes they did.
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-fall-of-house-of-bircher.html
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The Fall of the House of Bircher (Original Post)
phantom power
Feb 2013
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Berlum
(7,044 posts)1. .
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)2. one of my new fave bloggers....
thanks for posting.
PCIntern
(25,583 posts)3. Thanks...
Much appreciated.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)4. God help us. Please bring sanity back.