What They're Feeding Me

Todd Palin, known secessionist, was the real governor of Alaska, not Sarah Palin, whose recently revealed emails show a shocking, highly-suspect and possibly illegal chain-of-command in which Todd was responsible for high-level duties and the transmission of information marked “CONFIDENTIAL.” Charges are not yet filed. During Sarah’s unsuccessful bid for the Vice Presidency it was revealed that Todd was a member of a secessionist local party in Alaska. She tried to cover it up, and also failed at that. Secession is an utmost disrespect for the law of the land.

Today Sarah will be speaking at the Tea Party Convention, where you can buy a precious-jewel-encrusted Tea Bag from a man who is complaining about “paying through the nose” for government.

Secession was the first priority of rhetoric-backed Governor from the state of Texas, Rick Perry. While repeating the big lie about banker-friendly economics, Perry has the unhealthiest state in the Nation, some of the wealthiest corporations, and very low corporate taxes. He doesn’t wanna pay for health care, or much else, and he’s going to secede. He’s lying to convince people to vote against the economic interest of the majority for the sake of a very few people. “Buy a $75 platinum teabag? You never know when the dollar might collapse.” Fearmonger.

Before any of us knew who Sarah was, she was an anonymous Alaskan mayor elected to serve those people using the very same rhetoric in a very red state. She feels that her candidacy for Vice President was “God’s plan” for her. Those very words are the Rhetoric of Reagan.

It means nothing. The more you repeat it, the better it sounds. It is the big lie. Although there are benefits to concepts like “low taxes” and “free markets” in actual economics, the pretend economics that big liars sells is populism, but not true. “I will lower taxes, and markets will be free,” Reagan will say, “and let the government get out of the way.” Prices skyrocket and wages stagnate. The mercury content in our fish is making children sick, the runoff from the chemical weapons we tested in Puerto Rico causes bizarre birth defects, the air in some major cities is mostly smoke so we keep the kids indoors those days. If you want post-industrial wasteland, we are already it. We love disaster porn like 2012 and The Road and Wall-E. The highest grossing movie of all time, Avatar, is a cartoon fantasy about genocide. We barely know what the Wi-Fi and the 3G signals are doing to our ears and our crotches. Palin’s keynote to rally the Teabag Secessionist Militant Movement will offer a full-throated defense of the pervasiveness of the chemicals that caused her to have a child with Downs Syndrome.

Reagan will say “I believe in God and Country.” The two are intertwined. The idea is to talk about Christianity as though it gives you a divine mandate for office. “I believe God wants his leaders to look like me and think like me.” Reagan has swagger, yet is humble. He uses funny stories to sound like an everyman. To directly quote Sarah Palin’s office-fleeing fail speech: “Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me – sports.”

The Big Lie is that the “government is the problem.” Why would you elect a person to an office they don’t respect? Reagan will project annoyance at a nation left to us by wiser folks than any of us dummies. Reagan will claim a down-home attitude, at its heart the nationalist impulse. It will be the crucial test of Sarah Palin’s Shadow Presidency if she makes any sort of “decisions,” in her Shadow State of the Union, since she holds no office currently. If she says “we should destroy the government” who is she suggesting do this? Teabaggers in the room, people watching aghast on Fox News? Sponsors are paying her $100,000. She’s helping the wealthy keep so much more. Perhaps they will “secede” in name only, simply start their own social contract and move to Texas or something. They want to destroy a democracy that the world admires for the selfish interests of the wealthy. They believe they can achieve massive wealth, or their children might, so they’d better keep corporate taxes low.

The words don’t matter. Sarah has yet to speak but it might as well be over. Fox News is the only cable network allowed access (who is shocked?) and a recent poll said they are “most trusted” in America. How about that, they pulled it off. The coverage of Palin’s speech will be more adorable than the Puppy Bowl.

Watch at your peril, the words will rend your soul from your flesh and you will be doomed to a life believing that the bankers are our friends and need to be protected. Some of the big moneymakers need fired and possibly arrested, but Sarah is going to defend them under the blanket term of “business” or possibly “markets.” The big lie will be repeated endlessly: the government is your enemy. This is primarily why people don’t vote, is the Big Lie. They are scared of government. If only the people would realize they could get the government they all secretly agree they want, a fiscally conservative but socially liberal one where all of us can be our religion or sexuality and smoke our dope and stroke our gun. If all of us voted, we’d have that government. Health care saves money and makes sense to everyone but the Teabaggers, who believe the lie. The big lie turns the people into cynics. “What’s the point of voting?” they will say. Then Reagan will come along and inspire them to do something stupid, like vote in favor of the lie.