Krugman: "wealth and power creates a bubble in which people are so eager to please the paymasters

[pampango]

that they lose any sense of what it sounds like to those not already answering to the same paymasters."

Godwinization



So the Heartland Institute seems to have blown itself up with its billboard equating climate change researchers to the Unabomber. Of course, anyone who believed that the right-wing ”think” tank was objective in the least was a fool; but now even the fools have been put on notice.

But how could they make such a stupid mistake? I think there’s a process going on here, in which wealth and power creates a bubble in which people are so eager to please the paymasters that they lose any sense of what it sounds like to those not already answering to the same paymasters.

You can see the same thing with Grover Norquist’s comparison of anyone trying to stop wealthy Americans from using abandonment of citizenship as a tax dodge to Nazis — hey, remember Steve Schwartzmann comparing attempts to close the carried interest loophole to the Nazi invasion of Poland?

And no, the same thing doesn’t happen on the left, at least not that part of the left that is remotely serious about actual results. Right-wing apparatchiks, living in their billionaire-funded bubble, can forget that not everyone shares their extremism; progressives don’t have that luxury.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/godwinization/

Ahhh, the "billionaire-funded bubble" in which everyone at the right-wing "think" tank agrees with each other which fosters ever more absurd ad campaigns.

[Zalatix]

1. And the Right Wingers who keep drinking this kool-aid?

Simple... mass hypnosis. There is a cult that inevitably rises behind the billionaire club, people who think that if the billionaires win, they might become one of them.

[ladjf]

2. Stay after it Dr. Krugman. You are helping our cause. nt