tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post1060523727289860402..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: The Firmest Pillar of Good Government Has ToppledBig Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-16452462015585890812020-02-18T15:31:37.576-05:002020-02-18T15:31:37.576-05:00You had bigger things to contend with, Emma, that&...You had bigger things to contend with, Emma, that's not bad behavior at all.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-33508541389831458852020-02-17T18:37:11.439-05:002020-02-17T18:37:11.439-05:00A long time ago I read a book called "Albion&...A long time ago I read a book called "Albion's Seed" (tried to link it but Blogger won't let me!), which I can still just barely remember, which stipulated that different elements of British culture had influenced different elements of regional American culture. Among many other things that I very vaguely recall, I remember that the book suggested the Puritan-based people that settled in the Northeast had a specific formulation about what "justice" meant, and it was that all laws applied to all citizens equally. Which is not to say they didn't fuck up all the time, and weren't also evil violent racist & sexist shitbags, but that was the ideal. The English gentry who indentured servants and then created the institution of American slavery to farm and settle the South, however, had a vision of "justice" that consisted of "protecting our precious elites from facing any consequence for their actions, no matter how bad, ever." For them, it was all about maintaining the privilege of the hierarchy. I don't know if I 100% agree with that — Corey Robin said in "The Reactionary Mind" that conservatism is all about the preservation of hierarchy, no matter where it happens — but it certainly seems like we're selecting heavily for the long-dead expat English gentry in the Trump administration. I've never seen an organization so blatantly focused on hierarchy — Trump is protected by the voters beneath him, who he's fucking over as badly as any other Republican president would, because he's openly promising them that he'll make sure they won't lose their place in the hierarchy to college-educated smartasses and Spanish-speaking brown people. If we didn't have concentration camps at the southern border and hungry poor people (potentially?) missing their food stamps, it would be awe-inspiring. What a bunch of evil fucks! I hope they all stroke out at once, while watching the same Fox News show. Couldn't happen to a better cult of villains.<br /><br />Also: Really, really sorry for letting your super-kind comment on my blog go unanswered for, like, a year and a half. Very bad online behavior, & I apologize.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11771959740072605857noreply@blogger.com