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A former U.S. congresswoman slammed U.S. policy on Libyan state TV late Saturday and stressed the “last thing we need to do is spend money on death, destruction and war.”

The station is fiercely loyal to Moammar Gadhafi and her interview was spliced with what appeared to be rallies in support of the embattled Libyan leader.

“I think that it’s very important that people understand what is happening here. And it’s important that people all over the world see the truth. And that is why I am here … to understand the truth,” former Rep. Cynthia McKinney said during a live interview.

Much that is objectionable here. The overall tone is the same ol’ hippie nonsense, that all war is a product of misunderstanding and we can make it go away if everybody understands each other. I’m becoming cumulatively impatient with this, since I started reading it all as a confession of ignorance with regard to world history — which is chock full of brand new wars flaring up among people who understood each other just fine.

But what really frosted me was when she started picking on Holy Man:

The former Georgia representative also slammed the economic policies of U.S. President Barack Obama and said the government of the United States no longer represents the interests of the American people.

“Under the economic policies of the Obama administration, those who have the least are losing the most. And those who have the most are getting even more,” she said. “The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.”

Somewhere in a closet is a placard marked up with “Under the economic policies of the [insert name here] administration, those who have the least are losing the most.”

My son and I rode the light rail downtown, back in ’09, and ran into a real live communist. He was all excited about attending his commie demonstration in downtown San Francisco, all about how we can’t take any more oppression from The Man & all, with a special keynote speaker Michael Moore! Yay! The election had only just happened, and I couldn’t believe what I was hearing…the election had gone just the way Moore wanted, had it not? The hope, the change, whatever happened to that?

It was like speaking Latin to a dog. When you’re a revolutionary, history always began yesterday morning. So, yeah. There are people out there who think of Barack Obama as a symbol of all the ugliest right-wing shibboleths — blood for oil, corporate greed, keeping grass illegal, blah blah blah. And we need to get rid of Obama so we can bring the government back to The People…but they’re not Tea Party people, they’re high-drama lefties who don’t really care who’s running the show at any given time, that guy needs to go so we can Take Our Country Back. Perfect bliss is constantly one revolution away. The entire life being lived out on a turning point; the inevitable straight-away is something that simply doesn’t fit into their comprehension.

I dunno who they think they’re fooling. Themselves, maybe? But you don’t need to pay attention for too long before it becomes clear these people are never, ever going to be happy.

Once upon a time I joked that what this country really needs is a good old fashioned Flagellant movement. You know, like they had back during the Black Death. That way, all these pretend “revolutionaries” who simply cannot be happy unless they’re making a public spectacle about Saving Everyone from Everything can put on their big damn show and bleat self-righteously until the cows come home, and the rest of us can get on with our lives.

Sadly, I don’t think I’m joking anymore.

Oh, and “revolutionaries” of this type have to be ignorant of all history prior to yesterday — it’s the only way they can keep out the realization that, if the revolution actually happened, they’d be the first ones lined up against a wall and shot.
- Severian | 05/23/2011 @ 09:42
Sev,

There’s a scene in Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables where Kevin Costner gives a courtroom speech about “I have become exactly the thing I have sought to destroy” or some such…it’s a very popular movie trope, Becoming What You Loathe, and I notice moonbats tend to like movies like this. Sort of helps reinforce the “no such thing as good guys & bad guys” meme.

At the McKinney level, they’re acting out that very thing in real life, I’ve noticed. As revolutionaries, they’ve got their little organizational structure, their little chain-of-command, their head-honcho at the top of the ladder or center of the circle, depending on how you envision it…their little rulebooks, their little rituals of banishment for whoever doesn’t toe the line.

Thing I Know #235. What a self-parodying mess it is when a command hierarchy is constructed within any rebellion, for there it becomes undeniable: The rebel is only a fair-weather friend, at best, to the act of rebelling.
- mkfreeberg | 05/23/2011 @ 09:51

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