Yes, it's the start of that special time of year: when the public is encouraged to be charitable to the less fortunate, while wingnuts counter with the War on Losers Who Deserve Their Misfortune.
As income inequality is so obvious as to have become a bit more spoken of publicly, the right's pundits rush to expand categories of which groups can be blamed for not having chosen the right parents. Even if they too might be among the losers, there's never a danger of cognitive dissonance among the Fox viewership. As Roy Edroso put it—
If most of you who are punished by inequality are blameless, comfort yourselves that your suffering also touches the nation's whores, junkies, and MFAs!Among the comments:
philadelphialawyerThis season I give extra thanks, for keta's comment: an account of "Uncle Dick Cheney" at the family's holiday table.
[in] my own experiences at holiday family gatherings....Republican/conservaguy/"libertarian" makes a political statement of dubious merit. Liberal smiles and lets it go. Repub guy makes another, and another and another such statement, until, finally, liberal person calls him out on it. Then, like Sonny in the Godfather scene with his brother in law Carlo, Repub guy says we don't talk about politics over Thanksgiving dinner. Or someone else says that.
trex
Yeah, apparently "don't talk about politics" means don't argue about politics, and it is always OK to get in the first shot. Especially if it is a conservative one. Everyone, I guess, is just assumed to agree with conservative talking points, so presenting them is, somehow, not "political." But refuting them is.
[in a later comment]trex
... It's all "So I was just minding my own business commenting on how the Kenyan Pretender in the White House is a secret Marxist with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and all of a sudden a liberal attacked me for no reason and almost spoiled everyone's dinner."
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