Ponzi Politics

Zizka has a scorching series of rants called “12 Reasons Why I’m No Fun Anymore.” I particularly like number 10:

Why I’m No Fun X: Inside Players

A lot of people fall for weird scams of the Nigerian type. Some crook comes up to you and offers to let you in on his game. “At last!” you think. “I’m finally getting in on the action”. But you’re not. You think that someone else is being scammed, but it’s you.

Enron was that kind of scam. Up until a certain point, lots of people were making tons of money. The Republicans and many Democrats were on board, and nobody tried to stop it. In the end, a lot of people found out that they weren’t in on the action after all.

The Bush administration is running the same scam. They’ve got plenty of people convinced that they’re going to come out ahead. Their proposals are all carefully backloaded, so that by the time people figure out that they’ve been had, the game will be over.

In politics it’s suicide to complain about the electorate, but the electorate these days can really be morons sometimes. The chump electorate and the cheesy pimp media (see next) are the hand we’ve been dealt. I haven’t got a goddamn clue as to what to do about it.

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We could try doing what the Republicans do. Say the words fraud, Enron and Bush in the same sentence over and over and over again until they are inextricably linked in the minds of half of the population. It worked with terrorism, Saddam and 9/11.