The one thing I really like about the whole economic/financial crisis thing is that more and more people seem to be becoming aware that THIS IS ALL MADE UP. Money, economics, corporations, governments, all of it. It’s not necessarily the way things have to be, it’s just the way things have become. We can at any moment decide to make any other types of choices we want and change the root directory of our reality structures as we see fit. It’s all up to us. We made all this stuff up to begin with, and we can re-make it any way we want. What’s stopping us? [+]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23318320/mad_dog_palin

an interesting story almost more about media, public perception and the political process than Sarah. still, there are some giggle-worthy remarks among the dismal analyses.

Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of our political power. Not only is Sarah Palin a fraud, she's the tawdriest, most half-assed fraud imaginable, 20 floors below the lowest common denominator, a character too dumb even for daytime TV — and this country is going to eat her up, cheering her every step of the way. All because most Americans no longer have the energy to do anything but lie back and allow ourselves to be jacked off by the calculating thieves who run this grasping consumer paradise we call a nation.

The truly disgusting thing about Sarah Palin isn't that she's totally unqualified, or a religious zealot, or married to a secessionist, or unable to educate her own daughter about sex, or a fake conservative who raised taxes and horked up earmark millions every chance she got. No, the most disgusting thing about her is what she says about us: that you can ram us in the ass for eight solid years, and we'll not only thank you for your trouble, we'll sign you up for eight more years, if only you promise to stroke us in the right spot for a few hours around election time.