There's a slow motion back and forth going on between my regular commenter MoonDragon and teabagger extraordinaire psumba on the comment thread of this post. I highly recommend giving it a read. MoonDragon has far more patience than I do when it comes to arguing with our paranoid defender of all things Palin and he/she is doing a very good job of of it. Here's a taste,
Why do I call psumba paranoid, you may ask? Well, consider these remarks. This is from his first response to my post about him from over a month ago.
Of course, I had nothing to do with the vanishing comment thread. The CDT puts most of their articles behind a paywall after two weeks and the comment thread for an article vanishes when the article goes behind the paywall. But psumba's first instinct was to accuse me of conspiring with the powers at the CDT to victimize him and more than a month latter he still thinks that he's the victim of a conspiracy to make him look bad....did I mention that psumba is huge Glenn Beck fan, too?
Everyone getting the same shot you had is problematic, considering disparaties of the original circumstances from which people start (I, myself, was very lucky - caring parents, choosing a major that didn't become obsolete before graduation, remaining relatively healthy.) Government can help remediate some circumstances, particularly of institutional, disadvantage. Support of such policies is one of the family values I inherited from caring parents.
I hope your students learned about unions in their studies, that may be the only way to a better life than that of their parents. The decline of the middleclass parallels the decline of union membership.
The biggest boosts to the "ruling elite" over the last few years have been in the tax code that has fed the growing gap between the top 2% and the bottom 98%, especially the recinding of the "death tax" is particularly amusing, as it is creating a defacto aristocracy. Just watch an episode of BRAVO's NYC Prep.
It's the railing against unions and taxes on the top 2% by the Tea Party, two things that will help people get back in the game, amuses me.
Why do I call psumba paranoid, you may ask? Well, consider these remarks. This is from his first response to my post about him from over a month ago.
You must really have some "juice" to have the CDT take down the Palin article & comments that the above remarks were posted against ...This one is from three days ago.
What was represented as my original posting was really my fifth posting in a long thread. Hence my compliment to Veblen about getting the original article taken down ... destroying the context of the original remarks.
Of course, I had nothing to do with the vanishing comment thread. The CDT puts most of their articles behind a paywall after two weeks and the comment thread for an article vanishes when the article goes behind the paywall. But psumba's first instinct was to accuse me of conspiring with the powers at the CDT to victimize him and more than a month latter he still thinks that he's the victim of a conspiracy to make him look bad....did I mention that psumba is huge Glenn Beck fan, too?
