Life On the Rocks
Liberals' Abiding Sin
Over the years of observing liberals, I’ve always felt that the essential liberal character flaw is their driving ego need to be ‘important’. Here is my vindication written with complete lack of self awareness by Amanda Marcotte in Salon magazine. She deems Hallmark movies Fascist because:
“Hallmark movies, with their emphasis on returning home and the pleasures of the small, domestic life, also send a not-at-all subtle signal of disdain for cosmopolitanism and curiosity about the larger world, which is exactly the sort of attitude that helps breed the kind of defensive white nationalism that we see growing in strength in the Donald Trump era.”
Yes, Amanda, we right wingers do disdain cosmopolitanism and are not obsessed with the larger world. It’s hardly white nationalism that makes people of all cultures and ethnicities revere the small pleasures of domestic life. If you are unable to be happy in your own private sphere, then you are simply using the larger world and its volatile, arbitrary and capricious attentions and rewards as a substitute for your lack of self-satisfaction. That makes you dangerous to yourself and others.
Do yourself and the rest of us a favor, get a life.
And yes, Hallmark movies are schmaltzy and trite, their movies and their cards have always been like that. Here’s another culture fact you may not be aware of. Everything Disney has always been ‘Mickey Mouse’. All of their pseudo social justice agenda so admired by you and your pseudo intellectuals is no deeper than schmaltzy Mickey Mouse on a tugboat.
Get down off your high horse before it throws you into the gutter.