Why We Can't Let the Conservatives Win in 2010!

I am behind in posting not because I have developed another case of writer's block, but because I have had trouble prioritizing what to write. Since last Saturday's Wretched Reactionaries Rally in Washington, everyday the news has presented a veritable smorgasbord of dumb. Where do you start.

I was in fact writing my own addition to the punditure (literature from pundits) attempting to answer the question, "Why are all those white folks so angry? Did Obama order the all the "all-you-can-eat" buffets closed being a menace to public health? (Look at the protest crowd pictures and see if you can tell why that might not be a bad idea.)

While looking for a good conservative pundit (pardon the oxymoron)—representative of those who stuck there thumbs in their ears and held their fingers over their eyes shutting out the overt racism of some (no, racism does not explains all the anger, but you have to rationalize real hard to ignore its significance)—I ran into something more important.

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Right-Wing Anger and the 9-12 Event

Tomorrow we will see a "major" (yawn) fringe right event, the 9-12 march on Washington D.C. Initiated by Glen Beck based on his 9 Principles and 12 values—many of which Beck and his disciples regularly violate (check his first value honesty). This event is intended to look like a grass-roots event, but it is being orchestrated by Freedom Works, which in turn is led by led former(?) corporate lobbyist and former Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey (his name says it all). Freedom Works is running the event's official website and charging other organizations to participate. (Yeah that's grass roots. I wonder what it used to cost to participate in a peace rally.)

But no matter how Astroturf the organization, the most of the participants will be non-corporate-affiliated citizens—very angry non-corporate affiliated citizens. The question is, "Why are they so angry?"

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