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truth be told, i don't particularly care about glenn beck.
what concerns me more is the idea that the republicans will gain seats in the upcoming election cycle. the reason for that is not too far from what tully says above---the right has to my mind nothing coherent to offer in terms of policy--so nothing in terms of a logic that could orient policy--that's fit to or able to address the situation in which the united states currently finds itself. i'm not sure that the obama administration does either because they aren't social-democratic enough. i think there needs to be decisive, directed reallocations of resources to help open up economic options for people, things like the japanese were doing in the 1970s with spot underwriting of sectors of economic activity. unemployment needs to be addressed. the right has nothing to say about that, and have even got in the way of any attempt to address unemployment.
if the republicans get more seats in congress, what i see following is paralysis.
and *that* is the point at which the far right, the tea-party right, becomes dangerous. that is the point at which the koch brothers can buy their way into being very problematic indeed. and that appears to be what the tea-party is about, what it's banking on. but that's not about glenn beck---he's merely a shill who's benefitting materially from being a shill. there are lots of shills. he just happens to have alot of airtime on faux news, your friendly mass-market conservative shill emporium.
and i think the other, consistent problem is that the obama administration---and the "left" or "progressives" or whatever---has failed miserably in making either their own agenda clear or even outlining what they've been doing clearly---and have failed in taking the political fight to the conservatives. abject inexplicable failure in communication warfare. it's amazing. makes you wonder.
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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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