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poor old conservative and their brand problem that won't go away.
interesting idea for some agit-prop though, i suppose, even though it leans on that old, outmoded conservative obsession with taxes as if they were ends in themselves and so afflictions visited upon the Righteous and not an instrument for the redistribution of wealth in order to carry out specific political objectives--and if anyone should have clear political objectives right now, it's the obama administration--but when it comes down to it, they prefer to pretend, like the right does, that everything is basically the same as its always been--when it isn't---that this economic problem is a blip and not a function of stuctural problems created in particular by 30 years of conservative domination in the united states--and that if everyone just holds hands and gets optimistic that things will somehow go "back to normal"--and god knows that there should be no taxes because in times like this when wealth bloody well should be redistributed....
well apparently folk think that it should just happen magickally.
i don't understand what conservatives are thinking at this point, beyond clinging to the same ways of seeing things that brought us this wreckage and the same absurd notions concerning taxation (and a host of other things) that enabled it.
teaparties?
go for it. have fun.
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