tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post8759315959032857168..comments2023-10-28T03:40:04.629-04:00Comments on SCRIPTOIDS: Frontal lobe ping pong: We aren’t the electorate Obama campaigned to governGrace Nearinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414685202654408290noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-44743098148906290982009-08-11T09:55:21.908-04:002009-08-11T09:55:21.908-04:00This is a great post, although what it chronicles,...This is a great post, although what it chronicles, which is the most glaring weakness and vulnerability of mass democracy, is certainly nothing new.<br /><br />I can remember (just barely, but I do recall it) Joe McCarthy's 1950 debutante speech in which he said there were 205 communists working in the State Department -- a sure sign the commies were taking over America. That speech, like Palin's recent entry in the Chicken Little sweepstakes, reflected prevailing public sentiment as much as it sought to shape it.<br /><br />As long as everybody is allowed to participate in the process, we're going to have these periodic episodes of fear-driven mass hysterical stupidity.©∂†ß0X∑®https://www.blogger.com/profile/07840565734151807057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10206179.post-50061096327999962142009-08-10T13:58:35.140-04:002009-08-10T13:58:35.140-04:00Growing up, MY science textbooks never pictured So...Growing up, MY science textbooks never pictured Son of Big Cheese riding a T-Rex. I was cheated, dammit.Randal Graveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08728992897551848531noreply@blogger.com