Toles Rant: Friday Rant: Credit where credit isn’t due edition

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By Tom Toles
The GOP must be doing something right. Evidently there is method in the madness. Votes anyway. This is one of those major disconnects of logic that has to mean something.

Obama’s numbers are bad, But Congress’s numbers are worse. Congress’s numbers are bad, but Congress Republican numbers are worst of all. If you show people’s Obama’s proposals, the public supports them. If you show people, the GOP plans, the public opposes them. And yet, and yet and yet!

The forecasts are that the GOP is poised to win BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS! This is stupendous. This is amazing. This is evidence that either people are as crazy as the GOP itself, or the media is doing a terrible job of informing people (LIKELY!), or nobody got the vaccine against masochism. Anyway, this is apparently real and going to be our future. The GOP has done something very very hard to explain here, but at some point you have to accept the outcome of democracy, even when you can’t fathom it. So more power to them. Literally.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/tom-toles/post/friday-rant-credit-where-credit-isnt-due-edition/2011/10/20/gIQA4tRi0L_blog.html

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1. one comment to the post

from roaxle...

"Throughout my school life, the first words I heard upon arriving home were, "Do your homework." Somewhere in the pre-teen years, the words began to grate; by my teens, they made my blood boil. I simply wanted a chance to show I would do the right thing without being told.

Oddly, Republicans, who favor the authoritarian model because of the predictability and stability it provides, are now rebelling. I doubt it's teenage hormones at the root of their displeasure (though they do display teenage logic); more likely they like the authoritarian model only when they get to be the authority.

We've given them lots of chances to show they can do the right thing without being told. They refuse to eat their peas and keep turning up delinquent."



the absurdity is mind-numbing

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2. Is it really a democracy when people only hear/believe RW propaganda?

I always though "a well informed populace" was central to Democracy. Unfortunately we no longer have that. There are no major news sources that aren't RW propaganda outlets.

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3. The media is only part of the problem

Obama accepting and using the republican frame on almost everything is another.