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[felis_ultharus]

Yeah, and just because a fair number of my friends -- American, and non-American -- are talking about this woman, here's a YouTube video in which Sarah Palin's favourite pastor prays to protect her from witchcraft.

This is the famous prayer, by the way, that she credits with having won her the governorship of Alaska. I guess once they'd cleared out all those pesky witches, Alaska was hers.

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[urbangeo.livejournal.com]

Who cares about the electorate when you have God on your side.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

See, I never liked the fundamerntalists in general, but I'd gotten to the point where they were less likely to make my skin crawl.

Now, some of them want to burn witches again. I don't want to get used to that.

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

That woman scares me with her sheer ludicrosity.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

She's be hilarious if she wasn't so close to actual power.

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

"actual power"

...???

She's already the Governor of Alaska. I think she's already beyond scary. Hopefully this time the anti-witchcraft prayers won't work. Or something.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

True. I was thinking more of the power she would wield if she were to become president -- including the extra-legal power the Bush administration's been according itself to persecute people it doesn't like.

But you are right that the Third-Wavers are already sneaking into positions of power. And that's got to worry all of this whom they see as the enemy.

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. Though, her as President would be interesting:

Would it be an administration that works (mostly through her acting as a puppet mouthpiece), or would the Whitehouse be so totally ineffectual due to conflicts and bad decision-making that the US continues its downslide and drags us and the world market with them?

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

The problem with the question is that the people she'd be a mouthpiece for aren't any better, and so they'd be ineffectual either way.

If Republican strategists were evil geniuses who knew how to run things well, most people would put up with them.

But the current supply-side/trickledown/zero-social-programs-zero-corporate-taxes-zero-regulation flavour of economics is more a belief system than a science, and there's ample evidence that it doesn't work. It's the economics equivalent of creationism -- it ignores mounting evidence, and pushes itself forward as science.

Not only does it screw over ordinary people and ruin societies, it also collapses the financial infrastructures it needs to function. The Wall Street meltdown is a direct result of Republican (and increasingly Democrat) free-market economic policy.

If anything, her insanity might take time away from further economic "reforms" that would further worsen what's going on.

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

If I said to them "Adam Smith has been dead for 200 years!" they'd shout back "Not for long, the rapture is nigh!"

You have to love the American dichotomy: right or right of centre.