"Let's Try This Again," Take 6

Happy Anniversary, of sorts, to the economic philosophy known as Trickle-Down Economics. Ten years ago today, Pres. George Bush signed major tax cuts, promising sustained economic growth once government got out of the way. Today, unemployment is around 9% still, nearly three years after the economic policies of de-regulation and "Supply-side" growth nearly destroyed the economy of the United States, and with it most of the globe. Well done, TDE! Take a bow! You've now proven to be a completely fucked-up, idiotic economic philosophy FOUR TIMES.

Richard Nixon in a dress

Apparently the Great Alaska Grifter was in town yesterday, and because people are f***ing retarded and seem to care, she got followed around. Thankfully, she fled shortly after for the north, where apparently this interview took place.

I was obviously struck by the "America is for Americans" line, since I have heard that a thousand times in my dissertation research. And I think this perfectly proves what her appeal, her audience, and her own ideology all point toward. As Raymond Pearl pointed out in a 1927 article skewering racial nativists who were twisting scientific information to serve their purposes, this is all intentional. They nativists, he wrote, really mean that we have to keep out people that "I don't like because they're not like me." And this is entirely the case here.

This woman is famous for one reason, and one reason only: she stokes the fears and resentments of white people. She legitimizes their grievances against those people who are "not American" - meaning not white, Christianist morons. Her popularity in this country is embarrassing.

Who could have foreseen. . .

Apparently my self-indulgent narcissism has to be more clandestine. Other social media got me fired from my non-real job! (Still, GFY William.) So since nobody reads this, I can comment here with much greater impunity.

Anyway. Of course, nobody could have seen this coming. Seriously, how many times does supply side or faux-austerity measurements have to be lied about? They don't work. Counter-cyclical spending does. Fine, I'll concede reasonable limits on said spending. But come on.

And, seriously, it's so depressing to be in the exact same spot as a year ago. *sigh*