roachboy

yet another lesson in "personal responsbility" republican style.

rule number 1: whenever and wherever scandal erupts that injures your side, any and all types of dissociation are permitted.

correlate: it is preferred if the dissociation you choose to indulge dovetails with the talking points of that mighty conservative intellectual dynamo limbaugh (or another reactionary talking head take your pick--the characteristic feature of conservative politics is centrally co-ordinated talking points---this leaves the servility set with a number of talking heads to choose from--rifling through these options can be comfortably confused with thinking.)

so now your dissociation has a structure. indulge at will.

you might wonder about occaision.
well, here's a scenario in q and a form that outlines a rationale for dissimulation conservative style:

Q. what justifies dissociation?
A. justification can be found via any disengenuous reading of material critical of the right---so you have a far right administration that generates scandal atop scandal.clearly any discussion of such scandal is carried out by people who are opposed to conservative politics.
this oppostion cannot possibly have a rational basis.
so it follows that opposition=hatred.
so any and all critiques of bushworld, or of conservative politics in general, can be reduced to "you just hate republicans."
from here, content-free non-discussion can be caried out across a series of facile one-liners.

note: from an outside perspective, this line of reasoning can appear to be totally abject---from a conservative viewpoint, it is a simple mapping of servility from one space into another. because committment to right ideology is a matter of faith to begin with, argument occupies a secondary status. it can always be dispensed with.

indulge projection---claim the following: there is nothing specific about conservative scandal--everyone and everything is involved with scandal--once you make this move, time, space, logic--all are unnecessary---what matters is dissolving conservative-generated scandal into a generalized morass.
discussion becomes impossible.
in the breakdown of discussion, conservatives find solace.
by finding solace, they imagine victory.

when confronted with yet another sequence of facts that appear to cast conservatives in a bad light, deploy your sense of being-persecuted.

at all costs, refuse to accept any responsibility.
why?
because reality is often ugly.
it is best to run away.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite