The Goons on The Frontline

For the record, I’m a registered Democrat and did not attend a tea party.  Also, for the record, I have zero fear of being labeled a racist.  If anyone wants to invalidate my point of view with that cheap shot then, as Randy The Ram would say, “bring it”!

 

The Democratic Party stopped being my “home” on May 31, 2008; the day my party concluded is wasn’t necessary to so much as feign a democratic process.  A decision that might have given rise to a real revolution instead was lost in the onslaught of cyber-bullying and mindless rhetoric that went on and on and on, until that handful of power brokers got what they wanted.  Those of us, who refused to jump on the hopey changey bandwagon, crawled back to our safety zones still radicalized in our hearts and minds but outgunned on the political battlefield. 

 

It will take years if not decades to decipher how (or better WHY for gawd’s sake)  so many Americans got so stupefied by simplistic branding during this election, but I know for sure it is absolutely right to hold this presidency accountable at every turn!  The honeymoon for the hopey changey regime was rightfully short.     

 

I’ve shied away for political discourse since the election because I thought it was right to honor the cartharsis of electing the first black president, and because I’ve found the toxicity of it was having a negative effect on the core of my life.  Although I find some respite here, here, and expecially here.  I’ve felt it was important to step back and get some perspective on my place (and obligation) in the political process.  Then I happened to run across this clip of Janeane Garofalo being “interviewed” by Keith Olbermann. 

 

 

 

My first reaction looked something like this. 

 

 

Some people would say this kind of vile, banal junk shouldn’t be given the time of day.  In one sense I agree.  These two are underbelly-dwelling provocateurs, getting their fix of narcissistic gratification by demoralizing thousands of well-meaning people.  They don’t deserve credit or an audience, but let’s be clear about their function as part of the media component of this regime.  This is purposeful abuse perpetuated on a segment of the American population to intimidate them and get them to shut up. 

 

Janeane and Keith are disposable commodities, so not one bit of this phenomenon is about them.  What is at issue is the unprecedented and consistent abuse by Obama supporters toward their detractors.  And no, it isn’t the same abuse from the other side.  It is orchestrated, purposeful and widely effective at gaining compliance from large groups of voters, especially women.  The personalized gender-bashing insults, trigger survival fears deeply engrained in the subconscious minds of targeted groups within our society.  Janeane spilled the beans when she referenced the limbic brain, frontal lobe and synapses firing.  In typical narcissist fashion, she projects onto others precisely what she is doing.  Of course it’s clear she knows nothing about brain science.  By the time the academic theory tricked down to the goons on the frontline of the media contingent, the science was lost but the strategy was apparent.    

 

I put a small sign in my daughter’s bedroom that reads, “Don’t grow a wishbone daughter where a backbone ought to be.”  I’m thinking I’ll put one at my desk as well and remember this kind of intimidation propaganda is not different or new because it’s spewed by another woman. 

 

 

 

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