[lbo-talk] Palin's privacy versus her public stance

[John Thornton]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> Not sure what your referring to here, but I'll admit that I found 
> watching all those Republicans on the TV last night to be a disgusting 
> experience. They're absolutely repellent people - jingoistic, bigoted, 
> simple-minded shits. Maybe it doesn't help build a left to feel that, 
> but so be it. Of course, since you don't watch TV, and have only heard 
> snippets of presidential speech over the last 50 years, you probably 
> have no idea what I'm talking about. 

I listened to this crap last night on the radio for some odd reason.
It was a surreal experience. Both frightening and laughable at the same 
time.
It was so childish and simple-minded.
The bigotry, jingoism, xenophobic weirdness just seems otherworldly.
It is so cartoonish it seems like it should be part of an awful film 
rather than something real.
I haven't seen (or listened to) a convention since the 1980's and my 
memories of those are very imprecise.
I didn't listen to the Dem convention so it may have been just as awful, 
I don't know.
I have a hard time imagining it was as simple-minded and xenophobic as 
last night.

John Thornton