Army of the Stupid(US Politics)

There are stupid people out there, most of them are harmless, admittedly the rate at which they reproduce is staggering but in the greater scheme of things, they are ultimately harmless. Well, within my lifetime at least, or so I thought.

Christine O'Donnell - who believes masturbation is a sin(which sounds unimportant but consider someone saying that out loud and then giving them responsibility over certain aspects of your life), she is fiscally irresponsible(but so am I) and she appears cut from the same cloth as Sarah Palin. That she has only so far won a Republican primary, admittedly with 53% of the vote is, at the moment, of concerned interest to me, and the actual campaign will be brutal as she seems stuck on repeating talking points and not answering questions, even to relatively benign interviewers which will see her reeling when she gets to talk to someone decent - if she talks to anyone bar her audience, which, if I were her campaign manager, would recommend. O'Donnell, Palin et al can win merely by talking to their audiences in friendly, contrived settings - their homespun innacuracies and irrationality endear them to their base and it is that base that will, if motivated, draw in Republicans and independents who share any kind of sympathy with the American Dream.

Which, having read Stephen King's The Dead Zone, makes me feel quite unnerved and aggravated that Obama attempted to be conciliatory with the Republicans when their conservatism mutated into fundamentalism a long time ago and now this mutant strain of ideology has turned American into the first act of a zombie movie, with idiots and theocrats instead of the walking dead.

Next few posts will be talking about Trade Unions, then some posts about the possible strike action, stay tuned.