In Monday’s post, I spoke about how we can expect to see the political chameleons of the one-party ruling class try to camouflage their past in order to blend in with their new political environment. Glenn Greenwald, easily one of the best political analysts around, sees right through this strategy. He reveals the truth about …
Monthly Archive: December 2008
Dec 16 2008
‘Certified Sabbath Mode’
In our family we tend not to throw away stuff that can still be used but recently had to reluctantly conclude that our electric stove, which came with our house when we bought it twenty years ago and looked pretty old even then, needed to go to that Great Range in the sky. The filaments …
Dec 15 2008
Political chameleons
In analyzing politics in this country, the key to unlocking its underlying structure is to realize that what we have is essentially a single pro-war/pro-business party and that the Democratic and Republican ‘parties’ are merely factions of that one party, differing mostly on some social issues or on tactical matters. This underlying unity ensures that …
Dec 12 2008
The future of the Republican Party-14: The once and future queen?
It is time for me to leave that seemingly inexhaustible well of material that is Sarah Palin, though it is clear that we are not going to be free of her presence any time soon. There is no question that Sarah Palin was the phenomenon of the election. When was the last time that the …
Dec 11 2008
On being a contented loner
I have a confession to make: I am a bad Facebook friend. Although I have a Facebook account, I don’t do anything with it. From time to time someone will request that I be their friend and I almost always say yes even if I know them just remotely or they are just a friend …
Dec 10 2008
The future of the Republican Party-13: The case against Palin
Should Sarah Palin be the next Republican nominee for president? It is clear that she thinks she is up to the job. She says that whether she should be president or not depends on what god wants. Palin told Greta Van Susteren Monday on Fox News that her faith will guide her on a 2012 …
Dec 09 2008
Preachers, faith healers, and other conmen: The story of Marjoe
I watched a fascinating Academy Award-winning 1972 documentary called Marjoe, that follows the ‘farewell tour’ of Marjoe Gortner, a Pentecostal evangelical revivalist preacher. Marjoe (named after Mary and Joseph) was born in 1944 to Pentecostal preacher parents. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were also evangelists and his parents noticed early in his life that he …
Dec 08 2008
The future of the Republican Party-12: Puppet or puppeteer?
The key issue that will determine the future of the Republican Party leadership is whether it will revert to the control of the old-style conservatives that can reclaim the support of numerically large social values base, or whether leadership of the party will remain with the new alliance of Christianists and neoconservatives, united under the …
Dec 05 2008
The internet is watching you
Recently I came across two sites that made me realize that the internet is getting too smart for its own good. One is the site Typealyzer. You insert the URL of a blog and it does a Myers-Briggs type analysis of the personality of the author. The results of a Myers-Briggs analysis places the subject …
Dec 04 2008
The future of the Republican Party-11: The last straw
As this series has tried to show, there was an increasing divergence between the vision of the Republican party as seen by the old-style conservatives and that seen by the new alliance of Christianists and neoconservatives. Looking back, it seems inevitable that the tension would become too great and the party finally snap. It was …
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