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The Palin Three Sylable Mentality

05/25/2011 12:50 pm ET
  • Jon Raymond Independent filmmaker, writer, photographer and web developer

People I know don't get out to the Palin rallies. It's not that we're not pro-American. We just don't like Sarah Palin. We don't like to yell racial slurs, nor make sadistic threats toward presidential candidates, nor chant USA, USA, USA, like mindless three syllable human bumper stickers. We even tend to think for ourselves when we get the chance.

We have been known to read books, which happen to be available in our local book ban free library and bookstores. They even have words in them with as many as four or five or more syllables. Words like capitalism, economy, or corporate social welfare state.

Just the other day I had a discussion about this book I'm reading, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein, which explains very clearly how years of neocon trickle down capitalism caused this economic crisis, turning our country into a corporate social welfare state, prime for the neocons to use it as an opportunity to evoke yet even more trickle down capitalism, as we see when Newt Gingrich reacts that we need to, "...change the accounting rules that the Sarbanes-Oxley bill imposed on the system..." to further deregulate the markets. He seems to have missed that deregulation is what cause the market's free fall.

You might want to debate those points. That is, if you're capable of using words with more than three syllables. I'd venture a guess that if you were to poll the people at a Palin rally as to whether they've read The Shock Doctrine, you'd get either blank stares or your head bashed in for mentioning it. They take their three syllable bumper sticker mentality very seriously there.

People at Palin rallies don't seem to like the free press or for the free speech to get in the way of their candidates' propaganda. When any one at a Palin rally tries to vocally protest, the approved response is to let Palin yell out that they are exercising the freedoms of speech that they are about to be thrown out of that particular pro-America area for. If a reporter tries to get that story they might get assaulted by a few more of Palin's pro-Americans.

Looking for information on how the Constitution would define pro-America areas all you might find is that people have inalienable rights "that are fundamental, are not awarded by human power, and cannot be surrendered. They are by definition, rights retained by the people." That crazy Constitution treats everyone everywhere equally. I know Sarah Palin likes to read magazines. But if she's planning to be a vice president, don't you think she should read the Constitution, too?

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