shit on politics

completely fascinates me.
it's such a load of shit mixed up with such skill, such stupidity, such shrewdness...
there are too many webs and nobody can completely understand what's going on.

a few things:

trickle down economics (reagan, bush, mccain - basically a big drout for everyone except the white dudes at the top who bath in green showers)----------->>>>>trickle up economics (people who care. also, i don't know if this is a real term)...
but this is bottom up. this must be the way to go.

language in politics, a few excerpts:
"Karl Rove—along with predecessors like Lee Atwater and protégés like Steve Schmidt—long ago showed the Republicans that language is slippery, fluid, a river into which you can dump anything at all as long as your opponent is the one downstream. And, to be fair, those who affect to despise words have been more skillful than their opponents not just at amoral manipulation but at the creation of what Orwell called “a fresh, vivid, home-made turn of speech.”"
"Or take McCain’s slogan “The Original Maverick,” now attached to many of the campaign’s ads. It cynically stipulates that politics is just merchandise, by sounding as close to a logo or a brand name as possible. But it also understands that consumers trust brands that sound like “quality.” Thus “Original,” which has the reassuring solidity of something like “Serving Americans of discernment since 1851,” or, indeed, “Levi’s 501: Original Jeans.” In such formulations, “Original” means eccentric, strange, unusual, and also first, best, belatedly copied by others. Better still, the phrase sounds like the tagline from a movie poster; not for nothing has McCain taken to announcing that “change is coming soon, to a district near you.”"

and this is the lovely sarah palin when asked by sean hannity, one of the big bastards of fox news, about obamas attack on mccain's statement about the fundamentals of the economy being strong: "“Well,” Palin said, “it was an unfair attack on the verbage that Senator McCain chose to use, because the fundamentals, as he was having to explain afterwards, he means our workforce, he means the ingenuity of the American people. And of course that is strong, and that is the foundation of our economy. So that was an unfair attack there, again, based on verbage that John McCain used.” This is certainly doing rather than mere talking, and what is being done is the coinage of “verbage.” It would be hard to find a better example of the Republican disdain for words than that remarkable term, so close to garbage, so far from language."


i think this thing on language is huge.
im out for now.