Tristero: A Strange Country

[BurtWorm]

I always get this feeling when I happen upon America's Funniest Home Videos:


http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/strange-country-by-tristero-let-me-set.html

Let me set the scene for you. You're sitting in a large McDonald's, blithely poisoning yourself and your family - not to mention the environment - with beef from cows raised in their own fecal matter. As you tuck into that Big Mac and the industrially-manufactured aromas wafting around you boggle your senses, you suddenly recall something you read in the Times this morning::

...31 percent of respondents said they had a favorable view of the Republican Party, the lowest in the 25 years the question has been asked in New York Times/CBS News polls.

You look around at the others feeding and you think, "Just about 1 out of every 3 people I am looking at thinks the party that made torture an American value, that bogged our soldiers down in bloody, pointless quagmires, that ignored warnings about bin Laden, that partied on when New Orleans flooded, that deliberately tried to set back American science for generations --- just about 1 out every 3 people I'm seeing right now is so crazy they actually think that Republicans rock. And that's the lowest support they've ever had."

People, Greil Marcus wrote a book entitled The Old, Weird America but let's not forget that the one we're living in is plenty strange, too.