DISQUS

And another thing, how stupid to Palin/McCain think people are? They parade around the country criticizing "government" when they both have made a substantial living on the people's payroll. McCain has NEVER HAD A JOB IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR, from his career in the military to the House and then the Senate. He's been living off of our taxes his entire life, as did his father and his grandfather. And yet, we cannot have access to the same health insurance choices we've been paying for him to have his entire life?

The "thing" that Palin represents is nothing new. Her disdain for ideas in general and contempt for details and rigor in intellectual endeavors have been preached before, in other lands and during other times. Her trading of science for gut instinct, scholarship for the easy answer, and hate for those who work hard in learning about issues was at the heart of another political movement, this one in Germany in the 1920s. The banner of "anti-elitism", in fact a whipping up of the downtrodden against those who tried hard in school, and "country first", in fact a whites-only racial pig dressed up with lipstick, is exactly what was carried by the Nazi party into power in 1933 in Germany. Add into the mix the conscious diverting of working people's economic anxiety to easy targets of people of color, immigrants, and "smart" people, and you have rallies with hate speech and the attacking of reporters that would make Adolf Hitler beam with pride.

Palin is nothing new, in fact, her politics are old enough to be feared.