As a Canadian, I read something like this and think: hell, at least you guys got to have something for a few years. We never got to have squat, ideologically speaking, and we never will.

I really don’t think David Frum et al get it. Obviously they know more “Beltway” stuff than I ever will, but really: global warming? A hoax, as revealed more and more each day. And what is Newt thinking? He veers between genius and stupid about 50/50, and he’s supposed to be the Smart One…

Income inequality? Insecurity? Who told you to drop out of high school, you stupids? Who told you to get wrapped up in so much consumer debt buying crap you didn’t need? Of course you’re “insecure.” Should have planned your life a little better. Not my problem. Certainly not the government’s.

And what is this “New Orleans” crap? People too drunk, stoned or stupid to live above sea level? But that’s Bush’s fault how again?

Here’s the real problem with Establishment/Movement Conservatism:

It refuses to address the very issues that working class people bitch about among themselves and that the elites won’t even acknowledge:

* racial/cultural divides and differences, such as taxpayer sponsored serial unwed motherhood that’s become an institution among blacks, hispanics and lower class whites

* illegal and legal immigration, its effect on everyday life (“press one for English”) and the resentments these effects engender among immigrants vs citizens

* tort reform (because most politicians are lawyers, we’ll never see that happen)

* the sense of entitlement that seems to be the one thing all Americans have in common anymore, from the “right” to hog the sidewalks with their goddamn giant baby strollers to the “right” to blast their goddamn rap music out of their ugly cars while talking to their stupid friends on their stupid cellphone. Jezuz.  

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