Republican Rand Paul’s campaign for the U.S. Senate will hold a rally at 3 p.m. Tuesday in front of U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning’s Lexington office to support Bunning’s blockage of unemployment and health care benefits for over 1 million jobless Americans, including 119,230 Kentuckians.
You might think this wouldn't go down so well with Kentuckians. But a lot are getting behind this self-immolating dumbassery. It seems that conservative Kentuckians think it's a good thing that 119,230 of them lose their unemployment benefits. Sample comment:
"I have seen more fat and listless welfare or unemployment welfare recipients than can be counted. Kentucky is also one of the fattest states because a huge majority don’t work, but sit around eating beer cheese and Ale 8."
It suddenly struck me how middle class conservatives today resemble those broken-spirited 'house negroes' of the pre-civil rights era. You know, those black people who didn't stand up and fight because they'd been so beaten into self-hatred and acceptance of a system that oppressed them.
Lower-class conservatives are today's economic 'house negroes'. They even hate themselves so much they'll join Teabag minstrel shows and tip their hats to corporate overseers like Jim Bunning when he puts them out of work and generally screws them over. We really are living in the Bizarro world pre-civil rights era.
Liberals might "have a Dream." But it seems too many conservatives, from their place of fear, self-hatred and misdirected anger, just want to perpetuate the nightmare.
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This is the same stat that has a chinless congressman named "Geoff Davis". . . who is a rabid right wing moron that acts and speaks like he is cousins with Jefferson Davis.
ReplyDeleteKentucky is as bad or worse than WV when it comes to moronic, slack jawed, inbred dumb fuck politicians and the likewise endowed citizens who elect them.