| Here we have an article from a British newspaper (the Guardian, again) that constitutes an appreciation of the rise and career of Michele Bachmann. (The story was filed by the Guardian correspondent in New York.) The piece discusses the newsworthy aspects of this politician.
I want to point out that all of this information was available to any Minnesota political observer, political journalist, or political blogger at any time during the course of Bachmann's nine year career as an elected official. I also want to point out that if you read any of the particular political profiles of Bachmann done in Minnesota by Minnesota editors and journalists--most of the information that appears in the following profile, does not appear. (Even though the facts were available at the time.)
So read this and wonder, readers. Wonder how a band of Minnesotans watching politics every day, on a professional and amateur basis--could be so deluded, so self-deluded, regarding their own competence--that they could miss this particular gorilla in the room.
Most of the people covering Minnesota politics still don't understand what is going on, re: this politician and the movement behind her. True, most of the professional politics watchers outside Minnesota still have a lot to learn, too. (The profile I'm directing you to mentions the "hot for Jesus" quote, but that doesn't begin to explain how the American religious right orchestrated Bachmann's rise, almost from the outset.)
But there's nothing secret about what's going on. The only problem with figuring it out--is resistance to the learning curve on the part of people who claim to know something about politics. The people I'm talking about are dumb MFrs because (despite all evidence to the contrary) they continue to hang on to the delusion that they understand enough about the right to have an informed opinion on American politics. They think they know enough, they don't want admit that they don't--that they have to start all over and fundamentally change their own assumptions about the forces driving American politics these days.
It would be very hard for these dumb MFrs to admit that, because no one has yet written a book that makes it okay for them to question their fundamental understanding. These dumb MFrs are not capable of writing such a book, will not acknowledge a new reality until such is chronicled in a new book--and these people do not have the "mind power" to make the existing evidence they see into a new, revolutionary perception of their own.
But the evidence keeps coming in. And strangers from foreign shores can sense its significance, even if the provincial tiny-minds here never could:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl... |
