Subservient chickens

One of Bill Maher’s guests last night on Real Time was Dana Loesch, a Teabagger. She’s quite stupid, which is no surprise, but if you have a chance to watch the broadcast, somewhere deep in, maybe at 35 or 40 minutes, the minimum reserve that she had dissolves. It was like one of those horror movies where some guy is kissing a girl and her skin dissolves and she’s really Satan. Her teeth bared and she said what she really thought about the Wisconsin protesters …

This is who ought to be mad. Taxpayers ought to be mad. And this is the thing that does not make sense about public employee unions, because you have people who are over-promised by slimy, skeezy, scazy politicians who all they care about is getting their votes. So they’re gonna promise them the world, and they under-deliver. Everybody knew that the money was not there, Wisconsin was broke, they still over-promised. They over-promised with taxpayers’ money, they didn’t allow the taxpayers to have a seat at the table …

Man that was ugly. She did not hiss, but venom dripped from the corners of her lips. Her contempt for working people, which is part of the unusual puzzle of our country, was on display. Earlier in the Maher complimented Scott Walker on protecting the besieged billionaires from all of these horrible thousandaires who have so much power.

Loesch is, of course, a commenter on CNN. They have competency testing for teachers, football analysts, but apparently not on news and opinion shows.

I am trying to get above all of this, to understand the makeup up people in general. As the old proverb goes, God must love stupid people, as he made so many of them. Richard Dawkins is kinder, noting that our survival as children requires absolute obedience of and faith in our parents or tribal leaders. In emancipated adults this manifests as faith in authority figures.

So by definition, our survival hinged on our ability to submit to the authority of others.

Dana Loesch is a subservient chicken, if I may borrow that Burger King bird. So too are Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Scott Walker, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, to name just a few. Their only skill is the ability to shoot off rapid-fire talking points and dominate forums. They never have to sit back, listen, think and respond – they are ongoing monologues occasionally interrupted by commercials. Their thought processes are never analyzed in depth. Maybe they all read an Ann Coulter book or two, if they read at all, but they are reactionaries, and not thinkers. They don’t give us their own opinions – they channel the opinions of others.

I doubt very much that in the 1960’s or 1970’s such low caliber people would be given a national stage. We have degraded to such a degree that our public forums are dominated by maroons. Dana Loesch thinks that Michele Bachmann has presidential timbre.

Aye, what a country!