Sarah Palin: Obama wants to “control the people”

Christopher Lasch, one of America's best students of its culture, wrote two books on the same subject.

The first, The Culture of Narcissism, deals with how the state and corporate America have overtaken the family, undermined authority everywhere, especially in the family and in schools, made work dumb and dumber...

While in his last book, finished just before he died, The Revolt of the Elites, he makes exactly the case the Palin makes: that the elites, through their love of big government, in association with big money corporations, is actually the most anti-democratic element in today's society.

And it is all rooted in the successor to the old-fashioned, neurotic personality you had when you were raised by an authoritarian family.

Now, instead, real feeling is avoided, anger, especially, and we mediate everything in relation to images, a pseudo-reality that people who work all day in offices prefer to the real one.

Lasch took his Marx and his Freud very, very seriously.

And, if you don't approach Obama's programs with decided skepticism, a real "where's the beef? " approach, you can be swept up in his real capacity to inspire.

To this date, his programs remain very unpopular while he remains highly-rated by the electorate, just as the Muslim world likes Obama but wants to see real change, and remains skeptical.

One last most important point: the reason that Mexico and Italy got mired in corruption is that the government owned the banks, the newspapers (almost all), some of the car companies, their oil companies, the universities and even the TV stations.

What happened?

Hell, there is no one outside the web. Corruption grows as every contract becomes padded with kickbacks, and the government does a rotten job of investigating itself.

Whether Obama wants to control us or not, the logical, reasonable expectation from having all this power is to use the power to resist opposition to his policies.

And, while Obama may not be that bad, precedent has been set for a situation just like in Mexico or Italy, with the same outcome.

Imagine "ACORN" write large.

Palin would have been in favor of limiting rights to gays and women in need of abortions as VP. The Republican approach is now to simply accuse Obama of everything which Bush/Cheney got away with. The GOP is a sinking ship, good riddance.

So, that doesn't mean that Palin isn't right about Obama's plan, and the nefarious effects of owning banks, owning car companies, bailing out the newspapers, silencing talk radio, setting up his "volunteer" program, and otherwise using up all the wiggle room left in the US.

Palin is not in power, and, so, the issue is: what ways are the powers of the peopel being limited by the policies of Obama?

As I said, Mexico and Italy and everywhere else where the government controls the banks and the media and most of the major manufacturing companies, there is total corruption.

Good riddance to the sinking ship of the old time republican party from me,as well, but that doesn't eliminate the problem.

The democrats are equally capable of screwing things up.

You don't apologize, and you don't engage. You seem to simply attack from the position of someone possessed from within by a malign anima, a misbegotten sense of Eros. You write as if you were Perez Hilton's press secretary.

The left-right paradigm is the favorite of people who can't grasp the beauty of F. Scott Fitzgerald's comment about the intelligence needed to hold two opposite ideas in one's head at the same time. They are enamored of orthodoxy and need to run inquisitions to help keep the anti-depressant charge from getting dissipated.

The left-right paradigm lets you NOT THINK. You just consult the field manual or pull out the rubber hammer and hit your right and left knees, and-  the answer gets tapped out.

People don't hate to think because thinking is work, though. They hate it because they don't know how to bear the work of the rearrangement of the emotional structure underlying all that orthodox crap they genuflect in front of in order to have a social life and "fit in", while, in the case of the men, the women secretly despise the castrati and cheat on them.

Hey, hey, but why abandon the Titanic? The party just got started.

80% of people in America believe in restrictions on abortion. As far as gay marriage goes

each state can do anything they want. Gay M. and abortion have nothing to do with

the economic maelstrom which Obama has conjured with his unbelievable plan. 

Added a little entertainment for you on  this administrations CHANGES.

Palin simply is saying whatever sounds good to appeal to the lowest common denominator to keep her national hopes alive as her popularity and effectiveness in Alaska craters.

She began as a liar.

She will end as a liar.

Oh please back.. It was the democrats Frank , Reid, Pelosi who contributed to this and

Clinton approved measures that affected this situatiion.  You need to do some reading sir...esp

about the mortgages.  Everyone is guilty ...ALL OF THEM... EVERY ONE ....IN WASHINGTON... AND ...................LIARS AND GREEDY BUSINESS PEOPLE

TO CONSTANTLY BLAME TWO PEOPLE IS IDIOTIC.

Read again...

"Everyone is guilty "...I said...you got some projection going on in the screen of your brain.

As sooon as you THINK a comment is a "right winger" you put up a smokescreen and

and presss "attack button"....Learn to look  ...read...............educate....look , read...educate.

Democrats and Republicans both are guilty and are imploding....BOTH . 

Bye now.

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In summation, Palin is so much a pit bull as a pit viper.