What a nightmare.
Is there no editor in America who looks at something like this and thinks, "Probably not a good idea?" Have we simply lost the ability to recognize the iconography and symbolism of that which we not only want to avoid, but need to? Here, let's let reader PW sum it up since she brought it to my attention - and notice the shock and pleading:
Speaking of Nazis and other assorted totalitarian bastards that like to brainwash people into their sick occult riddled reindeer games, did you happen to check out the cover for the new National Review?
There's a picture worth a thousand words in a shrink ward. It's like the product of a Norman Rockwell and Leni Riefenstahl deranged love tryst on the planet Xenu or something. wtf Nat'l. Review, wtf?!?
Between it and the '08 Obama as Che poster (which should have tipped anybody who isn't a retarded hipster off that something just wasn't quite right, oh wait, forgot his primary voting base)...wow, a person could write a paper about the course of American socio-politico-cultural downfall right there.
And the question, as I see it, is "Why?" Why would they go there? Did it strike them as "fresh"? Is this really the best they can do? What they aspire to? What they think I should aspire to? Where's Jonah "Liberal Fascism" Goldberg's keen eye for this kind of thing? He can see Naziism in NewAge but not in this?
Everybody's fucking crazy.
Because the Democrats would rather run with bullshit claims, than hit Romney for his very-real weaknesses, and the Republicans would rather attack anyone who tells the truth about their cult candidate than assume their flag-waving role as citizens with an obligation to protect the nation from such a candidate. No one - but no one - wants to tell the truth:
That both parties will say and do absolutely anything in their lust for power and, by today's values, that renders them both unworthy to hold it.
I don't know about you but, to me, this cover illustration says all that, and then some,...
I'm pretty sure the Dems aren't going after Romney with the power-mad cult stuff because that's their game too. Exposing Romney would be exposing themselves -- same as with the reason why the GOP won't go after Obama in that direction either.
ReplyDeleteWhy? Because that's what they really want (to heck with liberty, the rule of just law, the Constitution, the country), and they know at least some of their supporters are already halfway there and some more will jump on board if they believe (notice the word "believe" and all that implies) they'll be the special pigs too. Everybody else is just too willfully blinded by the propaganda to not go along with it until it's too late, or they don't like their own personal trip through the land of the Lotus-eaters disturbed -- either way.
But I figure you already know this, so it's preaching to the choir once again.
And I'd drop you some cash for quoting me (because hey, I'm blushing -- not banned but quoted, hot damn!) and for nailing my general reaction to the unfolding freak show, but I'm just a poor, underemployed hillbilly and don't really have any spare cash. Could possibly ship you a jar of canned tomatoes or saurkraut, but even that's a stretch (the more I can, the more I don't have to spend my meager funds at the grocery, the more food goes into my family's belly -- and that's a big priority).
PW
Crack, you need to lose the "target=" at the end of your links. It resolves to a 404 error on the servers you're linking to.
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