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This is a very original theory, Dan. Nice work.
Using this line of thinking, how do you explain the unpopularity of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid?
Paranoia will destroy ya...
White America Has Lost Its Mind
The white brain, beset with worries, finally goes haywire in spectacular fashion
much more: village voiceAbout 12:01 on the afternoon of January 20, 2009, the white American mind began to unravel.
It had been a pretty good run up to that point. The brains of white folks had been humming along cogently for near on 400 years on this continent, with little sign that any serious trouble was brewing. White people, after all, had managed to invent a spiffy new form of self-government so that all white men (and, eventually, women) could have a say in how white people were taxed and governed. White minds had also nearly universally occupied just about every branch of that government and, for more than two centuries, had kept sole possession of the leadership of its executive branch (whose parsonage, after all, is called the White House).
But when that streak was broken—and, for the first time, a non-white president accepted the oath of office—white America rapidly began to lose its grip.
As with other forms of dementia, the signs weren't obvious at first. After the 2008 election, when former House majority leader Tom DeLay suggested that instead of a formal inauguration, Barack Obama should "have a nice little chicken dinner, and we'll save the $125 million," black folks didn't miss the implication. References to chicken, particularly of the fried variety, have long served as a kind of code when white folks referred to black people and their gustatory preferences—and weren't many of us already accustomed to older white politicians making such gaffes? But who among us sensed that it was a harbinger that an entire nation was plunging into madness?
Who didn't chuckle, after all, the first time they heard that white people had doubts that Barack Obama had even been born in the United States and was therefore ineligible to be president? It sounded like one of those Internet stories in which some (usually white) writer does his best to prove something everyone knows to be true is actually the exact opposite. And you go along with it for a few paragraphs to see how long the writer can convince you that what you know is right is actually wrong.
Seemed like that, didn't it? After all, what was the beef? Obama's father was Kenyan, and the kid was born in Hawaii—which is barely a part of the United States to begin with (only a state in 1959!). His mother was white, and after the Kenyan guy left, she married an Indonesian guy, so little Barack lived in Jakarta for a while before coming back to Hawaii to be brought up largely by his white grandparents. . . . And that's it? Come on, this was after-school-special material, the kind of thing that brings a tear to your eye because little half-Kenyan/half-white Barry made good, not the stuff of conspiracy novels.
But the more you shook your head at it, the more it seemed to have taken root deep in the lizard part of the white nervous system. Obama is not an American. He says he's Christian, but he has a Muslim-sounding name. He's not black, he's not white. . . . Is . . . is he even human?
Today, Newsweek has found, nearly a quarter of Americans believe that Obama is a Muslim, with barely 42 percent of the nation accepting his claim that he's a Christian. CNN finds that a quarter of Americans also believe that Obama was "probably or definitely" born in another country.
Harris found in an online poll that 14 percent of Americans believe in their hearts that President Barack Obama is the antichrist, with nearly a quarter of Republicans saying so.
At least in this form, however, Satan (sometimes) wears a flag pin.
What was going on? Had decades of sucking down so much high-fructose corn syrup not only made Americans incredibly obese, but also messed with white brain chemistry to the point that some sort of tipping point had occurred?
Not a bad theory, but no, there's a simpler explanation, with two parts: For the first time in their lives, baby boomers are hard up against it economically, and white boy is becoming outnumbered and it's got his bowels chilled with fear.
"In an age of diminished resources, the United States may be heading for an intensifying confrontation between the gray and the brown," writes Ronald Brownstein in his July National Journal article, "The Gray and the Brown: The Generational Mismatch." That's a polite and understated way of saying that older white folks are losing their as they're being replaced by young brown and black kids while the economy is in the crapper.
Brownstein notes that 40 percent of the nation's population under 18 is already non-white, with that number significantly higher in the Southwest (read: Mexicans!). By 2023, that number of young non-whites will be an outright national majority.
At the same time, the baby boomers are getting older. At 80 percent white, boomers have gotten pretty used to dominating nearly every field of endeavor in this country since they came of age—politics, business, education, the arts—just about everything but MTV programming. Boomers set the national agenda in so many ways that we can forget how much the national economy and national media cater to them. Bewildered by the number of Cialis ads you see on television showing those flabby couples sitting in bathtubs? Or the way that older women are suddenly "cougars" and "MILFs" and . . . oh, yeah, you remember, boomers are getting old, but still want to think they can get the sheets sweaty. See? Boomers and their fixations and fears explain nearly everything. . . .
This is a very original theory, Dan. Nice work.
Using this line of thinking, how do you explain the unpopularity of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid?
Ridiculous. How many white people voted for Barack? Occam's razor: the more likely explanation is that people aren't taught to think critically on their own and the idealogues find these people easy to brainwash. If the militant middle ever wakes up, some of this crap can be taken care of.
"how do you explain the unpopularity of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid"
How do you explain the even lower popularity/approval/trustabilty of Repugs?
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Lost its mind? More like white people are finally regaining the sense they lost back in the '60s.
lol @ a collective white consciousness.
lol @ online polls.
lol @ bigots = all white people, et al.
lol @ danfail.
White people and conservative WASPs are not the same. Obviously. But they share a healthy cross section of the venn diagram. And when the author refers to White America- what he's really referring to is the butthurt WASP demographic (the GOP) that is interested in promoting an almost wholly white agenda, which purposely, hatefully spites brown skinned people and any semblance of rationality.
Yup, us white folk have secret weekly meetings to discuss all things political so that we can all present a united front.
I'd seriously like push the authors face in with a shovel.
Maybe not secretly, but what do you think teabagger rallies are if not a collective form of the insane WASP consciousness?
Prolly would've been a good idea, you know if you're going to go to the trouble to pen an article, to actually elucidate the population you're talking about. That the author didn't bother to do this, and by omission basically rounding all whites up in the bigot corral, gives me pause. I won't argue the WASP point...it's arguably true.
The author said "white folks" repeatedly, it isnt on me (the reader) to parse the inner meaning.
He/She is a moron to be lampooned.
Agreed. Distinction should've been made.
Oh, I get it. ALL white people aren't evil, racist s -- just conservative WASPs. Glad we cleared that up.
I wonder if Harry Reid still appreciates that Obama has almost no negro dialect and if Joe Biden still thinks of Obama as "articulate and bright and clean"?
Just like Christ Matthews, I'd actually forget that our president was black -- except for the fact that libturds keep reminding everyone on a daily basis.
Actually, opposition to Obama policies is not rooted in racism, it's because these people have lizard brains.
Here, Obama will explain:
you seem to be taking this personally, darrin.
i know why.
lol crazy stupid reptile Darrin.
The reptilian overthrow of the human species is not something to joke about.
Were the Conservative WASPS, (and I use this in a general, collective sense knowing full well not all WASPS are bigoted), not the sole possessor of the "Southern Strategy", you might have a point. As it stands, you really don't.
I'm pretty sure anyone with an occupied brain-pan would understand that Balli was speaking collectively, since he and I were just parsing that very concept.
thinly veiled non-white people are too stupid to realize the economy sucks thread.
...there's a lot of meat on those bones
Anyone hear about O'Keefe trying to seduce the CNN hottie?
O'Keefe, a veteran at creating videos to make blacks look greedy and stupid (look for "Taxpayers Clearing House" on YouTube), spent the summer driving around the country with his accomplice, Hannah Giles, making videos in ACORN offices asking for advice about avoiding tax troubles with pros ution money. You've no doubt seen the images of O'Keefe dressed as a '70s pimp. But O'Keefe had carefully edited his tapes and left out, for example, that he was decked out in college preppie clothes, not pimp-wear. At least one ACORN office threw him out, and at least two knowingly played along with his ruse. (The San Diego office called the cops after he left, and the Philadelphia office filed a police report.) The upshot was that after his edited tapes became public, Congress quickly voted to strip ACORN of all federal funds. The organization effectively went out of business before the bill could take effect or be thrown out in court.
O'Keefe has maintained he was "absolutely independent" in his project. But in September 2009, the Voice reported that he'd been funded by billionaire conservative Peter Thiel and the Leadership Ins ute, the same outfit that funded young Grover Norquist and Karl Rove. That revelation fell on deaf ears, however, and to this day, media outlets perpetuate O'Keefe's claim that he was operating without backing.
O'Keefe got further help when his tapes were pushed by BigGovernment.com, which is run by an underhanded blowhard named Andrew Breitbart.
Months later, O'Keefe was arrested by the FBI in a bizarre prank at Senator Mary Landrieu's office, in which he was either attempting to plant a wiretap or, in his explanation on Breitbart's website, just trying to find out whether her phone system worked to help her cons uents reach her. (Yeah, that was a good one.)
This summer, Breitbart picked out another black target with another selectively edited video, this one of a USDA employee named Shirley Sherrod. His editing so mischaracterized Sherrod's words and intent that the fallout, in the words of Frank Rich, "could not only smear an innocent woman but make every national ins ution that touched the story look bad. . . . The White House, the NAACP and the news media were all soiled by this episode."
But, hey, politics is hardball, right? We've had rat- ers like Breitbart and O'Keefe around forever (the founding fathers were certainly not immune to dirty tricks in their day). What's different this time, however, is just how easily the lies and distortions of the rat- ers are being soaked up by the damaged crania of this country's drooling white masses. What sort of senility is softening up the frontal lobes of America's palefaces that they can't see through the black-hatred of a wanker like Breitbart?
....and the tea party express...
He then added that he was not only mad as , but wanted to do something about it: "We're thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July. All you capitalists that want to show up to Lake Michigan, I'm gonna start organizing."
Suddenly, other angry (and obviously very confused) white people began organizing their own "tea parties" and, from the start, had to defend themselves from charges that there was more than a little racial component to their movement.
Few were really surprised, for example, when Tea Party Express President Mark Williams turned out to have penned a letter that could have been written in the worst decades of Jim Crow: "We Coloreds have taken a vote and decided that we don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!"
9/11 twoofer starts thread about people losing their minds.
That's pretty bad, but you ought to consider renting somebody else's.
nm.
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