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12/09/2004: "How to Talk to a Dittohead about Government – The Sequel"

Government is just too big a topic for just one blog entry. Besides, there’s so much more to government than just social services. Finally, we still haven’t yet achieved nirvana under the Tao of Ann: “always outrage the enemy.” And I’ve got just what you need to do that, a delicious insight that came to me at 2 AM this very morning! Here it is: Tell your Dittohead acquaintances that right-wing American politicians have invented an entirely new form of social organization: Con-munism. This new form of government takes its place among the four other forms that have been tried to date. The first, the developed world’s international standard, can be described as “regulated capitalism with a safety net.” It is usually called “liberalism.” It was the system used in the US until Reagan. Historically, there are three other, discredited forms – communism, fascism, and imperialism. Bush has perfected a fifth form of socio-political organization. It is based at a very fundamental level on various kinds of immoral schemes - cons – similar to the schemes of con artists. In other words, cons by Cons. It has similarities but important differences to the three discredited approaches. For example, it’s similar to imperialism’s transfer of wealth from conquered provinces to achieve prosperity for the citizens of the empire. The difference is that under Con-munism the wealth is coming from future generations via debt. This is where the “con” part comes in. For Con-munism to work, citizens must go along with this transfer despite the on-its-face immorality of imposing trillions and trillions of dollars of obligation on those with no say in the matter. It’s similar to the moral dilemmas faced by citizens of empire, but worse because the victims are defenseless babies who are in fact our very own children. Strategies used by Dittohead Con-munists for dealing with and generally covering up the moral dilemmas are straight out of Orwell and Himmler, the definitive authorities on communist and fascist “truth management.” Particularly relevant is Orwellian reversal of reality. If you have a morality problem, you deal with it by wrapping yourself in the mantle of high morality and by tarring your opponents as the forces of darkness. In other words, exactly the strategy that Ann Coulter urges on her right-wing aficionados!