re: #6 SpaceJesus

Heh, I thought of you when I read JHKuntsler’s latest essay. (Yes, I’ll read Kuntsler as a guilty pleasure… his use of English is a delight even if as a doomer he does attract the moonbats and wingnuts to his site.) From his latest essay, on the Tea Party Convention:

Behind the incoherent cargo of conflicting complaints that makes up Tea Party doctrine — like “keeping the government’s hands off our medicare!” — stands the more basic dissolution of the Sunbelt’s miracle economy, along with the pain and bewilderment of the southern peckerwood political nexus that rose out of the dust after World War Two to build the suburban nirvana of universal air-conditioning, happy motoring, Jesus tub-thumping, over-eating, and Friday night football that defined Sunbelt culture.

They sense now that history is about to thrust them back into the okra patch, with the hookworms and the chiggers, as the economy whirls down the drain, and the car dealerships close up, and the idle production homebuilders succumb to methedrine addiction, and the price of Reba McEntire tickets exceeds their dwindling resources, and they are none too happy about any of that.

Stereotyping… with style.