Palinized
During the 2008 election, I explained my obsession with Sarah Palin thusly: She is the avatar of this decade. She’s the omega point of a trend that began eight years ago with Paris Hilton. All the stupidity and mayhem of this era is finally personified in this soccer mom (oh, sorry, hockey mom).
I think Charles Muede of the Stranger is thinking along similar lines. There’s been a lot of discussion regarding the collapse of the GOP; in this short, one paragraph rant, he describes the breakup of Bristol and Levi as an emblem of the disaster.
And so what we have is a party that is not about Christian values, the moral majority, and all of that nonsense, but, as Palin’s loud and obnoxious rallies exposed this fall, white isolation. The Bristol/Levi situation shows that the whole value thing is nothing more than a cover for some very ugly and primal politics; and the rich are going to find it harder and harder to associate their power with that kind of politics, particularly in a world that has globalized its wealth.
