Suckers

by digby

Here’s a little earthquake for you:

Rumproast quips:

Man, that is one pissed-off font. So pissed-off that it hates Corporatism and Socialism simultaneously. It also hates “Leftists,” “Liberals” and “Liberal Policies,” although not necessarily in that order. Deep down, I’m pretty sure it hates itself for being such an easily deluded character-set.

And you just know that font represents all of us regretful Democrats who feel betrayed by Obama, Reid and Pelosi, because it tells us so. And it says “We” right up front, just to be clear. Plus, it uses authentic Democrat-on-Democrat attack-words like “Tax,” “Spend” and “Redistribute.” Like it or not, everything in this video has the Ring of Truth.

Nothing illustrates “disaffected single-payer health care advocate” like images of Old Glory, deranged Town Hall Meeting crashers and militant Red Staters with Gadsden flags.

It is funny, but it’s also quite clever and illustrates how the right hopes to conflate their loathing for taxes and government spending with the unpopular bailouts and co-opt some of their natural enemies in the process.(If the Democrats put immigration on the menu this year, they’ll have the whole package –not that immigration reform isn’t a worthy cause, mind you.)

There’s a name for this. It’s called “sucker punch populism.”

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