I’ve often wondered what this country will look like as reason is abandoned for raw emotion. Watching the creepy video clip of the birther making the rounds, tells me that Idiocracy would be the best case scenario. Stupid America won’t be benign.
Here isAdrastos’ take on the birthers:
why there aren’t many moderate Goopers left. The party has been taken
over by tin foil hat wearing wackjobs who think Obama is going to swoop
down on them in a black helicopter, kidnap them and take them toTrafalmadore for study. Holy anal probe, Batman.
The
woman in the clip waving her birth certificate was both disturbed and
disturbing. This talk of “taking our country back” may sound only
moderately creepy in the context of a tea bag type protest but when
spouted by a birther it’s downright menacing. Whose country is she
talking about? My country is diverse as hell whereas hers seems to be
some fantasy land out ofLeave It To Beaver
or an Andy Hardy flick. This woman should just go out and buy a sheet
and pointy hat; at least that way her bigotry would be out in the open
instead of hidden. Malcolm X always said that he preferred people who
were honest about their prejudices instead of hiding them under a rock.
The rock could always be used to whap you upside the head. In this
case, the rock is the bizarro birther phenomenon.
p>And here is Jon Stewart’s take: