Thursday, July 22, 2010
Gee Our Old LaSalle Ran Great...*
How Ronald Reagan Killed Edith Bunker
On November, 2 1980, Norman Lear killed off his beloved "Edith Bunker": the sweet, implacable moral center of Lear's multiple-award winning "All in the Family".
In case you never saw the show (based on the hit British teevee series "Till Death Us Do Part"), she was the gentle, Christian governor that kept Archie Bunker's raging, bigoted, ignorant, homophobic, misogynist, misanthropic White Conservative Id from running completely out of control.
In a strange quirk of history, two days later -- on November 4, 1980 -- Ronald Wilson Reagan won the American presidential election.
Reagan won that election by promising -- with a wink and a smile -- to finally let America's raging, bigoted, ignorant, homophobic, misogynist, misanthropic White Conservative Id unapologetically off its leash.
By promising, in other words, to smother Edith Bunker once and for all.
And 30 years later, whatever few, gentle, humane, Christian, Edith Bunkerish angels may have existed within the Conservative Movement in some dim, fictional, Jurassic past are long, long dead, and we are now living chin-deep in the shitpile that letting America's raging, bigoted, ignorant, homophobic, misogynist, misanthropic bugfuck crazy White Conservative Id run hog-wild has bequeathed to us.
Modern Conservatism is a disease.
If you don't understand that, you're already infected.
UPDATE: The title of this post has been changed because Caoimhin Laochdha's suggestion was sooo much better.*
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Republicans have been and will continue to cultivate an air of seething violence to permeate America. They are using both the implicit threat of Violence and explicit use of Violence to affect political change. This tactic is also known by another name... Terrorism.
Conservatism is Terrorism.
"Modern Conservatism is a disease."
See "The 49th Parallel" by Michael Powell.
In one scene, a farmer is speaking to a Nazi commander who is occupying his farm:
"We don't hate you, we hate the power of evil which is spreading over the world ... you and your [Fascism] are like the microbes of some filthy disease, filled with the longing to multiply yourselves until you destroy everything healthy in the world."
ok
"modern conservatism" is the new norm.
Have a nice day.
'Modern Conservatism is a disease.
If you don't understand that, you're already infected.'
Truer words were never written, but you left out one part: It's spreading.
You can tell, because the old anti-biotics, truth, logic, morality..simple decency are no longer effective in fighting it.
I dont think Faux News could have existed in its current iteration, even under the Raygun regime. Witness the fact that there is an actual big story here: A massive media organization that on a daily basis, breaks every tenet of journalistic ethics or any semblance of integrity through outright lie and innuendo and not a single reporter for any other major news group feels it can report the big story! They have elevated the false equivalence argument that all ideas carry the same weight to such an Orwellian level that double speak has become the language of journalism itself. It is sheer delusional thinking..and it is a sickness indeed.
That was the last episode of AITF that I ever saw. It was so obviously the beginning of the end there wasn't really any point in tuning in anymore.
Consider that as bad as Archie was, by modern standards he was a sentimentalist. Despite all of his bigoted rants and screeds, in the end he was always brought back to reality. Lear drug the ugly hate out on to the floor and stomped it to death.
Nobody does that anymore.
. . .gee our old LaSalle ran great...
<< sigh >>
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