• Reader Comments

    In general terms this is an excellent explanation of issues.

    Particularly accurate are the parts about feudulism programming in mass media and culture in the 80s (Richard Belzer said, Reagan is the Master of Ceremonies for the U.S. rather than a President , more of a conman style of conservative version of Johnny Carson)
    and the cultural & political theology of narcissism which precisely relates, as exemplified in the allegorical movie Network!, to the 2011 Republican legislative sadism operations that are reviewed in another new article in In These Times that was featured as of 3/18/11 & 3/19/11.

    Regarding Sarah Palin there was an excellent 2008 article about her in Salon that revealed her relationships to and approval of multiple right wing groups & sadistically theocratic religious groups and her Karl Rove style of gangster politics.

    Excellent job. This article, skipping the basketball metaphors for the people who do not readily relate to basketball, could be quite an insightful reminder of the negative Gilded Age regressive evolution that has happened here in the U.S. since Nov. 4, 1980

    Posted by JUSTJEFFBRENNAN on Mar 19, 2011 at 11:37 AM