Sunday Morning Comin’ Down

Shatterday

The Mouse Circus was intensely disorienting; a perfect, teevee representation of the schizophrenic rift that has split the American brain right down the middle.

Over in the Higher Reasoning Center –- where all of our math, history, logic skills, blues appreciation and sexual prowess are kept –- Christiane Amanpour interviewed Warren Buffet, Bill and Melinda Gates, Ted Turner and hedge fund manager Tom Steyer.

These are some of the richest people in the history of the world, and they are now giving away huge chunks of their treasure to support causes they believe in.

These are also some of Capitalism’s most successful “Generals on the ground”. Every one of their business cards reads “I understand wealth better than anyone else you will ever meet”, and their consensus opinion of these people is that supply side economics has been a horrible failure, that taxes should be raised on the rich, and the GOP is basically run by skeevy, lying hacks.

Although they were all too polite to put it just that way.

Warren Buffet believes that taxes need to be raised on the rich by a lot. That he got rich because he “won the ovarian lottery” and that “the idea of dynastic wealth is kind of crazy.”

The Gates’ state very clearly that they believe all lives are of equal value, and educational inequality is a scandal.

One of the worst times in Ted Turner’s adult life was when his AOL/Time-Warner deal crashed and burned and he ended up losing $10 million a day, every day, for three years.

At the end of that unimaginable, financial hemorrhage, Ted Turner still had $2 billion in the bank. When asked why he was giving one billion dollars to causes that arguably the government should be doing (securing loose nukes, for example) Turner said that governments are like anybody else. They can use some help. No matter how rich and powerful, everybody can use a little help every now and then.

Socialists, one and all!

Why do these billionaire capitalists hate America?

Meanwhile, over in the drunk, belligerent, power-mad, mendacious half of the American Split Brain, United States Senator John Kyl spent a little time lying about the START treaty.

Then Republican Ratboy Ed Gillespie expressed his great unhappiness that Barack Obama has been insufficiently grovel-y to the Republicans.

Then the Wall Street Journal's human wine-bag -- Peggy Noonan – decked herself out in her best sackcloth and ashes to mourn that the Obama White House has not yet figured out that the solution to all of America’s political problems is to bend over for Republicans much, much further.

According to the Right’s ranking barfly, Obama needs shakes himself, dusts himself off, and gives the GOP everything they want.

After all, 2010 changed everything!

Of course, 2008 changed everything.

And 2006 changed everything.

And 2004 changed everything.

And 2000 changed everything.

And 1994 changed everything.

And 1960 changed everything.

And 1862 changed everything.

Everything changed everything.

Noonan: Obama lost the Center because…

Then, Moar Sarah Palin!

And much talk about “most Americans”?

Do you think most Americans?

What about most Americans?

Most Americans think…

Most Americans believe…

Most Americans want…

But there is no such thing as “Most Americans”. There hasn’t been for years.

I believe it all began in the cell-phoneless 1980s, when – through an accident of astral projection or perhaps Kirlian photography – the American Shadow broke loose from the American Self.

They have been at war with each other ever since; fighting over who gets to be "America" once and for all. Because, as in physics and in Harlan Ellison fiction, it is has become impossible for our America and their America to occupy the same space at the same time.

Unfortunately, unlike “Shatterday”

it is the bad guys who have have been getting stronger every day.