Irrational

I've been wondering lately how, exactly, historians might look at our times. You know, way in the future when we're dead and beyond caring what the hell some pseudo-tweed moron thinks about us. One thing they will study closely will be the utter failure of the media. Never has the major media been so challenged by a power elite, and never has a generation of media so failed the nation. Aside, even, from Fox (who do not count as media other than in the sense that they do, indeed broadcast) the major media in America has been years behind the curve in calling out the lies. Six-figure-earning journalists have far more often served as propaganda arms and enablers of evil than as honest questioners and reporters.

And then there's the "government of experts." The "compassionate conservatives" who were going to "bring honour back to the White House." These zealots lied about the crusade they were pursuing so that they could acquire the power to pursue it.

I think they will call this the "Irrational Age." We've allowed ourself as a nation to veer 180 degrees from a place where rational policymakers would study numbers and consult experts to arrive at policy - and shepherd in a booming economy and a budget surplus - to a place where government ignores numbers, spits on (and censors) experts, and puts faith in before all.

Not 'faith' in a religious sense, because they've proven time and again that any faith they have in a deity or even ideology is just a front for selfish greedy relentless power hoarding. If they had any 'conservatism' in them they wouldn't run up historic deficits and lie to go on a war of convenience. The convenience is, of course, theirs. The war helped them get reelected and enriched them financially - what are a mountain of innocent corpses next to that?

Real conservatives are against that sort of thing. And real religious zealots would go to church and perhaps have heard of the Bible - not the title, I mean the contents. They would be against stuff like stealing from the poor to enrich the wealthy. Because in the Bible, the poor are mentioned over 3,000 times. And yet the religious priorities of the administration are squarely - and bizarrely - in favour of the rich and of the exploitive corporations. Were the meek not supposed to inherit the earth? Please don' tell them that.

Real ideologues wouldn't set up trade barriers when their friends ask (hello steel industry) because it's against their core beliefs. NO belief can survive the will to power, and the political axe that will chop anone anywhere.

Not that any truth would make a huge difference to a population increasingly deciding important decisions based on thinly-veiled lies. If Georgie says it, there will be a constituency of middle-class traitors.

The "government of Exprerts" failed to produce a productive economy and is in the midst of dismantling a powerful army. They've bungled a world situation where we can only take wha we're willing to unilaterally invade innocents for. And by the way, Israel does have nuclear weapons.

I hope things look better in the morning.