In the 1970s, the Right finally gave up its futile effort

[phantom power]

In the 1970s, the Right finally gave up its futile effort to get Americans to vote to eliminate the social safety net and embarked on the much more ambitious and successful project of convincing us that our representative government was, in fact, an sinister, occupying army of bureaucrats who (in the service of sinister elites) existed solely to thwart the dreams of freedom-luvin' patriots by a variety of sinister means including but not limited to confiscating their hard-earned money and giving it to lazy brown people, building a regulatory prison around every noble job-creatin' capitalist, forcing good god-fearin' Christians to pay for drive-by abortion clinics on every street-corner and to subsidize the slutty-slut-slut sexytime of millions of hippie chicks who refuse to let them even cop so much as a little feel without suing them for sexual harassment or hatecriming or racism or some other such made-up Liberal complaint.

To no one's surprise, this nihilistic vision that the federal government was out to get us was a very easy sell to lots of people, especially those Americans who still deeply loathe the federal government for having "gotten" their great-granddaddies during the War of Northern Aggression and for forcing their granddaddies and daddies to accept such progressively unnatural horrors as women voting, school integration, interracial marriage and jazz services on Sunday ever since.

The lesson? it is ever so much easier to get assholes to go along with cutting America's economic throat if you first encourage them put on funny hats and dress their bigotry and contempt for their fellow citizens as up as patriotism.

http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-90.html

[Boomerproud]

1. No one could have said it better (or with more humour).

Definitely worthy of Maher's New Rules.