Saturday, November 09, 2024

America’s Pronoun Is Not “We”


And it hasn't been for a long time.   That graphic is from this post from 2010 about Citizen's United.

So my next doomed word-of-mouth campaign is urging that, whenever you hear pundits tsk-tsking the folly or ignorance or cruelty or 'economic anxiety' of "voters", "the public" or "the American people", kindly put a digital boot up their ass with my compliments.

This disaster was not brought to us by "voters", "the public" or "the American people".  It was delivered to us by the same bigots and imbeciles who always visit such catastrophes on us.  

It's the Republicans, stupid.



I Am The Liberal Media

4 comments:

Jason said...

You mean it's not Both Sides? But that's what they keep saying. My family and friends say that too. Hmmm. I'm sure when America starts resembling a Mad Max cutting room floor shot it'll be blamed on the left and Democrats. My wife and I are keeping a close eye on how things unfold now. We know it's going to be a nightmare but if anything resembling brown shirts and late night house raids start it's off to Mexico we go.

lisahgolden said...

It's always been the Republicans. 45 years ago my mother told me to never trust them as we collected her campaign signs they stole and threw over the river bank.

Robt said...

We the People, changed by Right wing SCOTUS to mean, "Corporations are people " and people are something less tan.
After GOP contracted out the U.S. Supreme court to the billionaire Federalist Society. Their new ruling is the President is people and people and corporations are something else less than.
Fact is the SCOTUS is now something less than equal too.

Robt said...

To Jason (above_,
America is a shit hole country because of the left and everythng that goes wrong or is wrong is the left's fault. Trump campaigned on that.
I mean, it is not something new. After GW oversaw the collapse of Wal Street and the world's markets. He wrapped himself in his conservatism and applied socialism to bail out the big banks and many industries.
When Obama won election, it was he who generously poured other people's money on those banks, Not GW. He is conservative and would never do that.
Like the DOnn-er party chine trade war. that 38 billion in socialism to bail the farmer out as they sat on their couches and did not pull themselves up by their farmer boot straps to find another marker place for their AG goods to sell since China hit back and found another supplier of those goods.
Yep, bailed out with other people's money and the "other people" whose money it was. In return got higher food prices from them.
We got the higher prices we paid for.
Biden's fault.
Flat tire on the way to work? The left caused it.
Woman dies from miscarrage with no medical care given. Radical evil left's fault.
The Godless left has been responsible for all the natural disasters for quite some time.
Now the left has a weather machine to control it but it is only used during Democratic presidencies because the Deep Blue state hides it when GOP wins president. The same Deep Blue state that was eradicated from existence between 2017 and 2020.