Fuck 'Em

Another 11th hour, born-again Conservative Expatriate talks about the Base that made his entire career possible.

From Frum Forum:

How Palin Taps the GOP’s Economic Fears

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Now they feel themselves living in a hostile culture, under a president who describes himself as a Christian but never goes to church, and who manages to symbolize both the ascendency of the educated elite and the displacement of native-born whites by non-white immigrants.

In this inhospitable climate, they have had many reasons to feel that the GOP does not speak for them.

They had reason to feel that the GOP did not speak for them during the years leading up to the disaster, when they were told that the Bush economy was “the greatest story never told,” despite the stagnation of their wages.

They had reason to feel that the GOP did not speak for them during the crisis, when Republicans bailed out Wall Street and the big car companies, while leaving distressed homeowners to fend for themselves.

They have reason now to feel that the GOP does not speak for them, as it coalesces around a plan to eliminate their deductions and curtail their Medicare in order to enact a big tax cut for people much higher on the income ladder.

They feel victimized, embittered, deeply mistrustful of every established institution except the military. And they are hungry for a candidate who pungently expresses their victimhood, bitterness and mistrust: Donald Trump? Herman Cain? Michele Bachmann? But of course, nobody does it better than the candidate who has made victimhood her core message: Sarah Palin.

Fuck 'em.

Seriously.

Being an unreconstructed Bushite Conservative, even as he shoots spitballs at their Hive Queen, Frum will continue to backhandedly pander to the wingnut base as long as there is money in it.

And of course there will continue to be money in it as long as his pals keep putting him in front of teevee cameras and driving internet traffic to his site day-in, day-out.

Because for the Profession Conservative Public Intellectual, the concept of restorative justice -- of atoning for your sins and paying your debt to society for the horrific damage you helped to inflict -- is only for gang-bangers and dime-bag dealers.

Only for little people.

Meanwhile, for those of us outside the nostalgia-drunk drum circle of the Professional Conservative Expat crowd, the events of the last few decades look very different.

From where most of us were standing, it sure as shit looked like Liberals were playing "Catcher in the Rye" on the edge of one precipice after another, beseeching these imbeciles not to sign their own death warrants, as they merrily followed Limbaugh, Falwell, Norquist, Reed, Gingrich, Atwater, Bush, Reagan and all the rest of Conservatism's greater and lesser Pied Pipers (including Frum) right on up the gibbet stairs.

Year after year, as we begged them to stop, the Pig People laughed and laughed as they happily took the rope their leaders had spun for them and laced up their own nooses.

Year after year as, we screamed to them to turn around -- to pause and consider where this madness was going -- they loudly called us traitors and drowned out the ugly tide of inconvenient facts rising up against them by Turning Rush Up Louder.

So where were clowns like Frum then?

What were they saying and doing as the Reagan-lovin', Rush-listenin', Fox-watchin' Base obediently cinched the slipknot tight around this nation's neck?

And now?

Well, now it's pretty much too late. Now the Base has stepped right off into space (as predicted, and dragging the rest of us down with them) and cannot understand why it's not fun anymore.

Why they can't breathe anymore.

Why, no matter how violently they kick and gasp, they can't seem to reach anything solid to stand on anymore.

And as everything goes dark, their Conservative executioners continue watch them writhe and struggle, periodically reassuring them that everything will still be OK if they just stay loyal to the Cause, and that any discomfort they may be experiencing is the fault of those damn awful Libertards and thier damned awful Librul Media!

So fuck 'em.

Of course Mr. Frum -- being a Conservative -- is also never going to cop to the fact that the rage and paranoia at the heart of the GOP did not just spring fully-formed from the head of St. Ronald Reagan. These traits were being carefully cultivated, refined and bred into the Base by the Brain Caste of Mr. Frum's Conservative Movement since before he was born. These traits are now fully insulated from any contact with the real world by the Fox News/Hate Radio media machine that Brain Caste of Mr. Frum's Conservative Movement worked very hard and spent billions of dollars to create.

All while those evil Libtards tried to convince them this would all end very badly.

So fuck 'em all.

Seriously.