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More on the Decline of America

If asked "who is the best political writer on the internet?" I'd have to flip a coin between Roy Edroso and Doghouse Riley.

This bit is in Riley's favor:

Maybe Rick Perry is 8% worse than Romney, and 15% worse than Obama; if I had a serious alternative I'd be donating money to the cause. When we fuck up Social Security, Medicare, reproductive rights, the public schools--that is, when we fuck them up to Republican standards, not just Democratic Bargaining Position standards--and arm every citizen so we can gun down anyone who doesn't Pray in school, I'm not going to panic. I'm going to watch, and try to enjoy, as much as possible, as the slow dawning of what they've accomplished seeps over the Republican rank and file, aka the rightward part of the new permanent Serf class. We've had thirty years to wake up from this shit now. The continued slumber is not due to lack of evidence.

We have the power to stop this political clusterfuck, but we lack the training and the will to grow up. There will always be politicians (and wannabe politicians) who tell us we can have our cake and eat it too — Sarah Palin speaks out in Iowa against corporate capitalism run amok! — the only question is whether or not we have the courage and the wisdom to think. Like Doghouse, I'm not optimistic that we've got it in us. We've surrendered the responsibility to think like adults for forty years. At some point the organ atrophies. Something tells me that we've long past that point.

The end is near.