Tuesday, September 05, 2006
When Liberals Go Bad
UFOB provides a handy series on neoliberals gone berserk.
Much like old-time revival preachers, new age hucksters, and Wise Use provocateurs, they invoke their audience to find confirmation in a repentant celebrity (albeit convicted felon for high crimes), and corroboration in an academic who served as inspiration for said felon. You just gotta believe!
As I've remarked before, I'm tempted by pity for born-again neoliberals, but they're so full of diplomatic evangelism--spurred on by their neoliberal projectionists--that they have inadvertently created a teachable moment on the psychoses of neoliberalism. Had they only stuck to their fundie half-way house activities, but alas, like other martyrs to faithful visions, they insist on crucifixion through ridicule. Sadly, they brought this all on themselves.
Their use of scapegoating as a tool of self-promotion aside, I guess their mutual admiration for the new-and-improved Al Gore overshadows any possible concerns over the social damage caused by red-baiting or marginalizing those who characterize their self-destructive behavior as a form of psychosis. And for this alone, I suspect, they will have to be sacrificed in the arena of ideas.
Much like old-time revival preachers, new age hucksters, and Wise Use provocateurs, they invoke their audience to find confirmation in a repentant celebrity (albeit convicted felon for high crimes), and corroboration in an academic who served as inspiration for said felon. You just gotta believe!
As I've remarked before, I'm tempted by pity for born-again neoliberals, but they're so full of diplomatic evangelism--spurred on by their neoliberal projectionists--that they have inadvertently created a teachable moment on the psychoses of neoliberalism. Had they only stuck to their fundie half-way house activities, but alas, like other martyrs to faithful visions, they insist on crucifixion through ridicule. Sadly, they brought this all on themselves.
Their use of scapegoating as a tool of self-promotion aside, I guess their mutual admiration for the new-and-improved Al Gore overshadows any possible concerns over the social damage caused by red-baiting or marginalizing those who characterize their self-destructive behavior as a form of psychosis. And for this alone, I suspect, they will have to be sacrificed in the arena of ideas.
