My pessimistic prediction of the entire debate cycle

[prog]

Moderator: [ Question ]

Obama / Biden: [ Answers question ]

McCain / Palin: oh, were you saying something? lol sorry, I was distracted by your roman columns XD

Self-hating rubes: HA! You tell em.

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I'm airing this in the hopes that I'm usually wrong, and therefore this won't happen, K?

Comments

[keimel.livejournal.com]

Sorry Governor, I was admiring your own Roman columns....

wink wink...

[rserocki.livejournal.com]

Roman columns?

[keimel.livejournal.com]

Dem Convention Stage.

[misuba.livejournal.com]

Not seeing what self-hate has to do with it. In the experience I wish I didn't have, pure ape-status plays like the above do well with people who don't reflect on themselves enough to be anything but self-satisfied.

[radtea.livejournal.com]

I was gonna second the "self hating" question, but on reflection the Republican strategy looks a lot like Borderline Personality Disorder, which makes the "self hating" label quite plausible.

People with BPD are incredibly manipulative and disruptive of relationships, and yet because they lack any coherent sense of their own identity are able to believe completely contradictory things without noticing. The "borderline" in the name comes from the defunct belief that BPD's are on the "borderline" of psychosis, because while they are more-or-less functional they are able to believe patent falsehoods, like the notion that the last party to balance the federal budget and presided over a decade of rapid economic growth is the party of crushingly high taxes and irresponsible spending.

One way of looking at the recent history of bipartisan America is that the stable relationship between the major parties was disrupted by Perot in '92, and the Republican party has been increasingly BPD ever since. The Dems are like a stunned spouse who is now trapped in a dysfunctional relationship with a person who is undefinably but unmistakably insane, who makes contradictory claims with no awareness of their incoherence and who swings from respectful ("today, Senator, well done") to vicious at a moment's notice.