Alexis, re visuals, had the thought today, in O’s announcement with the cabinet & czars onstage with him, that something is creating some sort of stiffness in those folks. they came out live on camera, then arrayed on the marks left and right of the podium where there was then a good minute and a half to two minutes before the pres strolled out.
tho the room was active, with talking in the audience and a general loose atmosphere, these dozen or so people interacted not at all with one another, didn’t look at one another, just stood frozen and awkward.
To me they looked guilty, as though they’d been in conference on how to best hide from the masses what they were really doing policy-wise with these day-by-day trip-hammer blows to the old –accepted, traditional –way of doing things. Perhaps they came straight from a meeting, where the topic had been how to get something past the people, and then the call comes and suddenly they’re onstage in front of those very people (‘problems’, as Stalin would call them).
This scenario, among few other imaginable things besides chronic personal emotional distress, would account for the waxen expressions, lack of loose grace, real gesture, comfortable open posture, willingness to look at each other’s faces, et cetera.
I couldn’t help but wonder “what are these people ashamed of? what are they hiding?” I mean, this is how a group of conspirators looks when it has much going on that it absolutely cannot let slip to the public. The boss of course is a master, and shows no such ‘tell’.
I know –nutty –but, well, visuals are powerful signs & sigs if one remembers how subjective –tho not necessarily wrong –they’re liable to be. Only experience lets an individual know how much (or how little) to trust them.
On a different note, folks above saying that the red system never works are looking at it wrong, looking at it from the people’s POV. Yes the people always lose, and usually lose almost precisely as much as it is possible for them to tolerate, with an ever shrinking self-respect as accomodation to need and unnatural powerlessness envelops and closes over them.
However, from the POV of the leadership, red systems work GREAT –the charismatic and his loyalists usually stay in power until they die of old age.
And others mention BDS as a futile waste of energy. Not so, not so at all –indeed it worked to Cloward-Piven perfection. Cue’d up in whatever dank batcave underneath the DNC (in a psychological wormhole to the Kremlin) and breaking out through NYTimes and NBC and Hollywood, it soon became a daily sensory assault on the ordinary citizen, who when the time came to vote needed not ‘wanted’ but NEEDED “change”.
Benj, you had it done ’til you booted on “he’s never wrong”. The vitriol leak, characteristic of frustration. let’s go on a bit; why the frustration? i mean why other than that the target won’t freeze like Uncle Saul’s 13th rule said it would.
Here’s my theory, see what you think: wretchard writes about something that’s in the air, some news item that is already or soon will be blowing the silent dog whistle and alerting the sort of dogs that skulk around here. If the dogs show up here and find the object, they’ll chew on it and try to get some sustenance of truth out of it.
If it wasn’t in the air, it wouldn’t show up here; if the commenters weren’t already interested in it they wouldn’t come, nor stay on it.
So, ok, given that, then your reaction –which is that of a partisan who must fight another (oppo) partisan who is cooking up unique tabula rasa trouble for your side –is simply wrong, or misguided, and you could be free of the bitters just by realizing it.
Unless –unless it’s the wringing of truths out of news bits that bothers you.
In which case, Benj, you yourself must already understand that the relationship between the truth and Obama is unable to babysit itself, can’t be trusted, mustn’t be let loose to act freely, needs instead to be shaped or else it’ll be taken wrong. just like the people on the stage today. Suffused with artifice.
Whew –tired of typing and i’m sure have bored u silly –but –how’m i doing so far, analysis-wise? And will you jump ship? if not, why not? Do you fancy being an apparatchik for the state, or isn’t it a higher call to be a fully felt human being not having to shape your fellow citizens to fit whatever they don’t fit by nature now?
