Atlas Shrugged: The Mocking

Thursday, August 27, 2015

What You Wish For

Matt Taibbi:

Trump isn't really a politician, of course. He's a strongman act, a ridiculous parody of a Nietzschean superman. His followers get off on watching this guy with (allegedly) $10 billion and a busty mute broad on his arm defy every political and social convention and get away with it.

People are tired of rules and tired of having to pay lip service to decorum. They want to stop having to watch what they say and think and just get "crazy," as Thomas Friedman would put it.

Trump's campaign is giving people permission to do just that. It's hard to say this word in conjunction with such a sexually unappealing person, but his message is a powerful aphrodisiac. Fuck everything, fuck everyone. Fuck immigrants and fuck their filthy lice-ridden kids. And fuck you if you don't like me saying so.

You finally have your Galtian Ubermensch, America. A man who "built that" with nothing but his innate superiority and a $660 million inheritance.

How do you like your fair-haired boy now?

4 comments:

Smut Clyde said...

How do you like your fair-haired boy now?

Shirley you mean "blue-eyed boy"?

Susan of Texas said...

Yes! That's where I got it, although it's been so long since I read the poem I mostly forgot it and garbled it.

Susan of Texas said...

Or should I say argle-bargled it.

Smut Clyde said...

No-one gets their quotations right all the time, so let's not try.