"Pound for pound, Centrism is the biggest and most debilitating lie in American politics bar none"

[phantom power]

anyone who has lived through the depraved decades of the Reagan Revolution and the Age of Bush and who has watched the Party of Personal Responsibility get away with 100% pure, unstepped-on Orwellian crack...

...has no business being taken by surprise by a Republican candidate for Vice President who gets up on the biggest stage of his life and -- in front of tens of millions of his fellow citizens -- lies as easily and unself-consciously as a dog licking its ass.

This is who they are now. This is all they are now. And the reason it might very well work this time even though we can see it coming right down Michigan Avenue is that the Republican system of bald-faced, pathological lying requires only two moving parts: first, a Party that, top to bottom, has gone fully sociopathic and will lie about anything, any time without batting an eye, and second, a complicit, enabling Centrist media which categorically refuse to call them on their lying.

That first group -- the Party base -- is a cultural dead-loss: they've been stuck on stupid and bigoted for decades and, as I have said many times before, at this point they ain't gonna let nobody turn them 'round.

As to the second group...well the astute reader probably figured a long time ago why I devote so much of my meager firepower to Centrists:

...the Pig People would be nothing but a minor nuisance -- a boil on the ass of democracy -- without their Centrists who keep the "Both Sides Do It" spider hole well-furnished and open for business. Pound for pound, Centrism is the biggest and most debilitating lie in American politics bar none. It is the Big Lie that makes all the little lies possible, which is why I focus so hard on those who traffic in it. They are the ones most vulnerable to and terrified of being called out in public. They are the ones we must run out of the media on a rail.

http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-democratic-peoples-republic-of.html

[xchrom]

1. Du rec. Nt

[SidDithers]

2. DU rec...nt

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[redqueen]

3. K&R

[Hydra]

4. Great article

a person in the comment section put forth my objection perfectly though:

Coldtype said...

..pathological lying requires only two moving parts: first, a Party that, top to bottom, has gone fully sociopathic and will lie about anything, any time without batting an eye, and second, a complicit, enabling Centrist Democratic Party which categorically refuse to call them on their lying [while initiating slightly less rightist policies].

There, I fixed it for you.

The media is owned by the RW. The fact that our elected leaders haven't done anything about the fairness doctrine or election fraud points to the quote from the Bush Admin.

The centerists are CREATING REALITY. And it SUCKS!

[YoungDemCA]

5. K&R

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[dawg]

6. Yellow stripes and dead armadillos ...

that's all you see in the middle of the road.

(Well, possums too.)

[fascisthunter]

7. Centrism is responsible for today's politics, today's government and with it all the corruption

Sounded good at one time, but it turned out to just be an excuse to move our nation towards a corporate take-over.