Who is David Brat?

What a name.  I haven't even heard of David Brat until tonight. That is how unaware I am on national politics. I notice him on Hannity tonight and I believe I understand more clearly now. "Free market is undisputedly the cause of our wealth."

It's about the economy, Stupid.

That's Dr. David Brat to you, professor of economics, Randolph-Macon College.

So not a regular schlub to be dismissed as wacko tea party as mischaracterized.

His whole spiel is returning to basics of economics and political conservatism. There is no mention of social conservatism. Characterization as far right and tea party radical is flatly wrong. Brat denies such labeling.  Dismissed by media for not addressing political issues of the day as defined by media, his supporters reject that characterization.

This piece in the Washington Post on Brat defeating Cantor is reasonably good. However, the comments to Costa's, Vozella's and Fahrenthold's article show that Washington Post's readership, the readers that bother to register for comments, is basically retarded.

Washington Post Politics article  http://tinyurl.com/kpualhn
coments: http://tinyurl.com/kpse4xn

For fun, let's look at a few, these following comments are typical. There are thousands.

*  The Tea Party is being jettisoned like sewer ballast. This one win aint sheeite, well actually it's just that. Enjoy the corn in yer dookie, Tea Party.

* Another reminder that the Tea Party is against anything that doesn't benefit old, white Christians.

* Some of you TPers seem to think Brat is going to go in there and punch Obama in the face ..  

HAHAHAHAHA

* I love how the Tea Party is grabbing the tablecloth on the way to the floor. 

* Our Agenda is safe --- Conservo Agenda is DOA.

* It's like someone came across a GoPro in the woods of a Richmond suburb and unleashed a horror hiding in the shaky cam video footage of a straight to Netflix movie.

* Cantor wasn't crazy enough. So let's dive deep into insanity and see what happens.

*  Stupid is as stupid does. Just how stupid can stupid do?

*  Great, a foaming at the mouth Tea nut R will replace the feed the rich corporate robot R. Awesome.

* It is a sign of "the end times" when Eric Cantor is challenged as being "insufficiently conservative." 

Cantor is already far to the right of the mainstream. God forbid we get someone more conservative. 

Of course, the Tea Party types will probably also want to add the reparative therapy plank that the Texas GOP just added, too.  

Tea Parties are for little girls with imaginary friends.

* The idea that the Tea Party is unmoored from reality is neither childish or childlike. 

The Tea Party is, literally, obsessed with the imaginary. That bumper sticker sentiment, which I did not write, expresses all that need be expressed quite concisely. The truth tends to hurt when your politics are, to quote an earlier poster, "bat excrement crazy."

* Loving watching the Republicans implode. Go with the Tea Baggers and watch how fast you'll become irrelevant, GOP!

* Who would ever have thought that Ricky wasn't bat excrement crazy enough for the New GOP?

* Run with the Tea Party devils and expect to get burnt. 

Virginians voted Tea so a Democrat will win in November. Too funny.

* Wow, cool! A new Civil War but this time it's the new Confederates against the old Confederates. 

The crazier you are the more Republicans vote for you. Hard to believe Cantor wasn't crazy enough.

* All aboard the crazy train.

*  It's NOT a national election Baggers. It's one representative from a District who paid NO attention to them until the primaries. I'm glad he LOST.

And many many many more brilliant bon mots along these same lines. Projection, is aint just a tributary in Egypt. Jeeze Louise, talk about thick. Slow on the uptake. Resistant to new information. Impossible to teach. Proof, if any is needed, that resolute and misplaced partisan loyalty makes you stupid. Shows you've decided that forfeiting thinking for yourself is the way to go. Vote straight party line and divide your thinking in half. Take all your politics spoon-fed by party. Their decisions become your decisions. You end up supporting all kind of unsavory things. Base all your present day decisions on one fatal decision made long ago, when you were eighteen. For example:

Look, Chip, I'm a Democrat because I am gay.

As if that explains all. I don't even know where to start with that without reconstructing someone's whole  personality. I'm told basically they vote with their dick. Their sexual impulses determine their entire political outlook, their life as informed American voter. And that decision was made four decades previously without any reconsideration along the way regardless of how far their party veered nor how much other crap their party drags with them that must be swallowed to achieve -- what? -- gay Disneyland?  That instead of, say, I generally vote Democrat because I believe in their economic principles and their fidelity to constitutional principles of limited government and adherence to Bill of Rights and protection of our exceedingly rare freedoms. That I could work with, but not resolute loyalty to a single decision made as a child and based on sexual inclination. Besides, I was invited. Who wants to be kicked out of an otherwise happy occasion?

I cannot deal.

And that is just one example of misplaced wrongly considered loyalty. Discussing these things gets you nowhere. No level of cogency, no sound convincing can break through that level of thick headedness apparent in these comments I lifted.

That leaves only one thing.

In a way it really is devolution. In the sense of recognizing our country is moving the wrong way politically, and returning to basics. In terms of evolution that is retrograde. Two steps forward, one step back, two steps forward one step back, ten steps forward, eleven steps back. It's shocking when you are gleefully witnessing your country with its constitution-based laws, and its free market principles moving headlong toward one-party rule and socialized economy with top-down direction suddenly slam the brakes and reverse. It is impossible to process any way other than by insanity led by atavistic impulses. Thus doctors in economics speaking in simple straightforward sentences of the sort that apply to every American and not just so-called progressives, in reality retrogressive themselves, are dismissed as archaic insane idiots.

Can I call 'em or what? This is me in the Feds dumping immigrants in border states post.

But it is not by himself. It is through his Party and through government agencies under the executive branch. That means those branches have turned sinister, it means those government branches act with impunity. And what all that invites is even more severe far right reaction as seen in Europe and in England, if you count England as separate from Europe as many British do.

Observe: Shellacking Phase II, the beginning. The pendulum, it swings. It failed to swing back last national election. That means it was cranked back even further for an even more powerful return. That exceedingly simple pendulum swing is viewed as insane evolution in reverse to the progressive mind. They will see their world crashing in. It is no such thing. The social advances so-called progressives made are secure. They are locked in. But there will be a return to more fundamental constitutional principles and to fiduciary responsibility while holding onto social advances. That is what conservatism is, keeping and maintaing the things that are good and worth keeping.

I see Lem has another post scheduled on this same topic. So two chances to develop your thoughts.