{"id":1697,"date":"2010-09-30T10:44:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T18:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2010-09-30T11:05:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T19:05:45","slug":"sanity-calms-but-madness-is-more-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/?p=1697","title":{"rendered":"sanity calms, but madness is more interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Efter att umg\u00e5tts med ett g\u00e4ng h\u00e4rliga m\u00e4nniskor, druckit en gin&tonic och \u00e4tit det som med all sannolikhet m\u00e5ste vara universums godaste Chinese chicken salad p\u00e5 Katsuya i Brentwood<\/a> \u00e5kte jag hem och tittade p\u00e5 Lawrence O’Donnell.<\/p>\n

Fick veta att det finns en Tea Party Coloring Books for Kids som jag f\u00f6rst\u00e5s blev nyfiken p\u00e5 och genast ville best\u00e4lla, men p\u00e5 Amazon skulle leveransen ta 1-2 m\u00e5nader<\/a>. Inte s\u00e5 konstigt kanske, m\u00e5larboken utg\u00f6r, enligt en entusiastisk reviewer (fem starka stj\u00e4rnor) ”an honest, educational product that explains to children and parents a part of todays political climate.” D\u00e4rmed \u00e4r det h\u00f6gst troligt det n\u00e4rmaste en nedskriven, sammanh\u00e5llen programf\u00f6rklaring the Tea Party har kommit och d\u00e5 kan man ju f\u00f6rst\u00e5 att intresset \u00e4r stort och leveranstiden l\u00e5ng.<\/p>\n

Inspirerad av intervjun med Matt Taibbi, och f\u00f6r att jag \u00e4r intresserad av \u00e4mnet (jag missade Beverly Hills Tea Part<\/a>y get together<\/a> h\u00e4romdagen, hur klantigt var inte det?), l\u00e4ste jag ocks\u00e5 Taibbis artikel i Rolling Stone Magazine i samma \u00e4mne: Tea & Crackers: How corporate interests and Republican insiders built the Tea Party monster<\/a>.<\/p>\n

M\u00f6jligtvis inte den mest balanserade artikeln, men rolig och informativ.<\/p>\n

En av Taibbis slutsatser \u00e4r att tea-party anh\u00e4ngare, f\u00f6rutom att de \u00e4r ”flat-out batshit crazy” ocks\u00e5 drivs av en l\u00e4ngtan att vrida tillbaka klockan, till en tid d\u00e5 allt var enklare, mer begripligt:<\/p>\n

At times, their desire to withdraw from the brutally complex global economic system that is an irrevocable fact of our modern life and get back to a simpler world that no longer exists is so intense, it breaks your heart.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ringer det inte en liten klocka i varje svensks huvud n\u00e4r man l\u00e4ser det d\u00e4r? P\u00e5minner det inte en hel del om Sverigedemokraterns r\u00e4dsla f\u00f6r den b\u00f6kiga nutiden och deras l\u00e4ngtan tillbaka till en annan, enklare, tid, en tid n\u00e4r stugorna var r\u00f6da, barnen\u00a0 blonda och d\u00e4r omv\u00e4rlden i all sin r\u00f6riga m\u00e5ngfald inte ob\u00f6nh\u00f6rligt stod och knackade p\u00e5?<\/div>\n
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Klockan ringer igen n\u00e4r Taibbi skriver om tea party-anh\u00e4ngarnas syn p\u00e5 sig sj\u00e4lva som en diskriminerad vit minoritet som f\u00e5r st\u00e5 tillbaka f\u00f6r latinos och african-americans som kostar samh\u00e4llet en massa pengar, kostnader som den vita diskriminerade minoriteten naturligtvis f\u00e5r betala:<\/div>\n
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It’s not like the Tea Partiers hate black people. It’s just that they’re shockingly willing to believe the appalling horseshit fantasy about how white people in the age of Obama are some kind of oppressed minority. That may not be racism, but it is incredibly, earth-shatteringly stupid.<\/em><\/div>\n

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Sarah och Jimmie. Sida vid sida, sk\u00e5dandes tillbaka till sagornas och l\u00e4gereldarnas tid. Citatet i rubriken \u00e4r John Russells.
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Efter att umg\u00e5tts med ett g\u00e4ng h\u00e4rliga m\u00e4nniskor, druckit en gin&tonic och \u00e4tit det som med all sannolikhet m\u00e5ste vara universums godaste Chinese chicken salad p\u00e5 Katsuya i Brentwood \u00e5kte jag hem och tittade p\u00e5 Lawrence O’Donnell. Fick veta att det finns en Tea Party Coloring Books for Kids som jag f\u00f6rst\u00e5s blev nyfiken p\u00e5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}