Something Something Whig Something Something Burke

[phantom power]

What I vehemently object to is the fucking absurd idea that, having built their careers riding shotgun with the Conservative dregs of American culture, they now get to Moonwalk away from the burning wreckage that True Conservatism 1.0 left in its wake, pitch their carny tents beneath the sheltering branches of Something Something Whig Something Something Burke and whiiiiiiining about what a great big shame it is that the other 99.9999% of American Conservatives keep getting Conservatism so terribly, terribly wrong.

What I Loudly and Rudely oppose is the precedent that, having spent their adult lives making a buck punching hippies, America's Most Famous Professional Conservatives Public Intellectuals now get to quietly expropriate one long-standing Liberal idea after another without having to pay so much as lip service to the fact that the Hippies were right all along.

The seams and bolts and patches on the Southern Strategy exoskeleton binding together the Right's filthy coalition of plutocrats, racists, homophobes, anti-science goons, anti-woman slugs, gun-nuts and professional pundits have been clearly visible to the unjaundiced eye for a very, very long time.

The fact that it took America's Most Famous Professional Conservatives Public Intellectuals decades to bother to notice the Confederacy-size tumor which had long since eaten the soul out of the Party of Lincoln, shattered its bones and had burst through the Party's skin is hilarious.

http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2013/05/something-something-whig-something.html