The reason I no longer write about politics is I've stopped thinking of politicians as grown-ups. That Mr Cameron, for instance: I just can't take him seriously.
It's a clown-car fail parade, isn't it? The party of Lincoln is now the party of Santorum and Paul.
That pink man-child in No 10 used to annoy me no end. Then I heard him state, in some official capacity or another, that what was hurting Britain's economy was not the sadistic austerity measures he loves so, but the fact that the US had failed to implement austerity as well. Apparently, Mammon will not unleash the Confidence Fairy until the poor and middle class are suffering everywhere and not just in formerly enlightened Yurp.
What a ridiculous excuse of a man. Whether he is so stupid that he actually believes his bullshit or is just morally depraved, it hardly matters.
On the plus side, I don't feel nearly so bad about Bush and Cheney, now. At least they seized power through a soft-coup. You poor dears elected Cameron and his toady fair and square.
In the end, voting Lib Dem was a vote for the Tories. I think this was even clear at the time, so much so that I honestly don't know what possessed your fellow countrymen to do it. The British economy now trails Brazil and recovery is unlikely for the foreseeable future.
All my life, whether acknowledged or not, I suspected that Americans were somehow inferior to Europeans, less informed, certainly less sophisticated, maybe even less intelligent. What's happening right now, in Britain and on the Continent, has forever disabused me of any such sense of inferiority.
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Date: 2012-03-06 11:19 am (UTC)That pink man-child in No 10 used to annoy me no end. Then I heard him state, in some official capacity or another, that what was hurting Britain's economy was not the sadistic austerity measures he loves so, but the fact that the US had failed to implement austerity as well. Apparently, Mammon will not unleash the Confidence Fairy until the poor and middle class are suffering everywhere and not just in formerly enlightened Yurp.
What a ridiculous excuse of a man. Whether he is so stupid that he actually believes his bullshit or is just morally depraved, it hardly matters.
On the plus side, I don't feel nearly so bad about Bush and Cheney, now. At least they seized power through a soft-coup. You poor dears elected Cameron and his toady fair and square.
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Date: 2012-03-06 11:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-07 02:32 pm (UTC)All my life, whether acknowledged or not, I suspected that Americans were somehow inferior to Europeans, less informed, certainly less sophisticated, maybe even less intelligent. What's happening right now, in Britain and on the Continent, has forever disabused me of any such sense of inferiority.