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the problem for conservatives is simple. they had 8 years in power. every last aspect of their ideology has been blown to hell by their own actions. the worst thing that could have happened for conservatives, as it turned out, was to have power.
at the most optimistic, they now have a brand identity problem.
but at a more interesting level, they have a cognitive problem.
and what has the right been doing in the face of this cognitive problem?
well, faced with the implosion of their own ideology, but seemingly unable to adapt, those heroes of free thinking have ave decided to do what cognitive problems typically seem to require--they run away. they've retreated to a fantasy world in which things still make sense in the way they used to seem to make sense. this is obvious from their collective decision to simply repeat the same line as before and ignore the fact that it is that line, that ideology, that produced the realities that have pulverized their ideology.
it's called denial.
so i see no reason at all to continue taking conservatives seriously.
of course they are free to keep talking and to say what they want, just as we are all free to give names to our toasters and take those toasters to the beach with us and introduce our toasters to our friends and talk about our deep and meaningful relationships with our new toaster pals.
but sooner or later, you'd think that the right, which is all about personal responsibility when that responsibility is that of people who are not conservatives, would have to confront the disaster that their politics have created. strangely, i haven't seen that happen. there just seems to be a responsibility problem amongst conservatives. it must be the fault of "the left," whatever that is. the evil left prevents conservatives from owning up to the disaster that their politics have created. bad bad evil left. bad.
meet my new toaster pal.
his name is clyde.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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