{"id":14158,"date":"2009-09-04T22:54:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T03:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14158"},"modified":"2009-09-04T22:54:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T03:54:24","slug":"towards-the-edge-of-sanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14158","title":{"rendered":"Towards the Edge of Sanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a bit surprising that the notable and commendable Joe Gandelman of The Moderate Voice<\/a> would play the role of liberal demagogue by blaming the current political climate on the standard boogeymen (angry geezers at Town Hall meetings, dittoheads, Glenn Beck, etc.) instead of examining why this type of discourse is occurring. A typical distraction to shame the opposition while the real people in power can’t defend their own crummy policies. From TMV<\/a>:<\/p>\n

What has changed? The country.<\/p>\n

We are now seeing the triumph of the talk radio political culture \u2014 a politics that now is framed in terms of high-concept sound bites, trying to affix labels to those who disagree on an issue, trying to push emotional hot buttons so that the political target is hated enough to serve as a catalyst for a goal (in the case of talk shows to grow and maintain an outraged audience; in the case of politics, to mobilize one side).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite the punditocracy best attempts to portray rubes in fly-over land not onboard the Obama express as racists<\/a>, nihilists<\/a>, etc., Obama’s approval rating<\/a> is dropping faster than a pair of panties on prom night. Joe seems to miss the real story that the level of outrage might be peaking because the President is fast putting the country on the path to massive deficits and European-style socialism. One needs only to look at state governments that overspent their budgets<\/a> to understand where our country is headed (at least the feds can always print more money!). The Obama Administration rammed through a stimulus package to create jobs and we got more unemployment (especially for vets<\/a>), he tried Cash for Clunkers which was a major dud<\/a>, and now they want to seriously intervene in the health care industry (even more than they already do)? Anyone, else seeing a trend here on the level of competence when the federal government attempts to subvert market forces.<\/p>\n

So, it’s difficult to be completely preoccupied with all the birthers and people pounding on windows at Town Hall meetings when there’s stuff going in Washington that is truly frightening. Glenn Beck isn’t going to run the country so badly into debt that the dollar become worthless, Obama might.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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