As it sinks in - Part IV

The more things change, the less they change.

Growing up in Calcutta, possibly the last place on earth where you will still find street graffiti that embrace Lenin, Stalin and other colossi of Communism, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the rapid unraveling of the Soviet bloc, one of the memes that you heard all the time was that 'Communism did not fail, because the Soviet Union and all its allies never achieved true Communism. If it were implemented in its pure form, as it's meant to be, it would never fail'. This line of course was both true and absurd, because it is unlikely that Communism will ever be implemented on any world in its 'pure' form, and the closer you tried to get, the worse it got and the more people wanted to get away from it.

This purity meme never quite goes away and makes for such strange bedfellows! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the latest variant, from that witless idiot Jonah Goldberg - 'True conservatism has not been repudiated with the election of Barack Obama, because George Bush's reputation as a Conservative is simply a Liberal (boo! hiss!!) smear - he's not really a Conservative, because if he were, we would have won the election, Conservatism would have triumphed and I would get free blowjobs every day'. At least, that's what I think he's saying ...

Because it's difficult to read such tripe without laughing your mid-morning tea through your nose, given that he's got a hard-on for 'reformers' who worship 'market principles'. Oh, that's right - that would be the same market principles allied to naked greed that have brought the American economy to its knees. But then again, you know what Goldberg's pals are probably saying on Wall Street - since everyone knows all markets are actually not perfect markets, if only we had perfect markets with perfect information, none of this would have happened. (And of course, as we all know, if frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their asses on the ground quite so much!)

The leading 'intellectuals' of the Neocon movement have always had an uncanny resemblance to a pack of monkeys throwing their faeces against a wall and howling at those who didn't appreciate their genius. After eight long years, it's good to sit back and have a belly laugh at their efforts.

P.s. He also promises to be the gift that keeps on giving, since he seems to feel that the person to rally the troops is that well known patriot, Rush 'I got my housemaid to enable my prescription drug addiction' and 'I dodged the Vietnam draft because of a pimple on my ass' Limbaugh! And the person at the head of this fearsome band of intellectuals and reformers? Why the person who makes Vlad 'The Bad' Putin quake in his boots every time he looks towards Alaska - Sarah 'Mediocre and proud of it' Palin! For once, it looks like we're going to be laughing a lot over the next few years ...