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Jesus. H. Christ.

On a fucking POGO STICK.

This is just one random example that happened to set me off. Just the latest, in a seemingly endless parade of articles and opinion pieces which make an observation about political problems, of one sort or another, in America, and then make absolutely sure to assign equivalent amounts of blame, etc., to “the left” and “the right.”

For FUCK’S SAKE. Is it really so hard to write “American reactionaries are completely foaming-at-the-goddamn-mouth berzerk?” Without trying to uphold some sort of artificial but apparently obligatory evenhandedness rule?

Is it? Really? Because even if it is I suggest that it just might, just might, be worth the fucking effort anyway if one happens to give two tugs of a dead dog’s cock about, oh, communicating some sort of information that has even the most distant connection with reality.

I do realize that criticizing “one side” of a simplified binary political spectrum just seems so, y’know, partisan, and unobjective. But for the love of all that is holy. American “conservatives” aren’t even making a pretense of the slightest logical consistency, sure as fuck don’t bother with trying to offer useful solutions to anything whatso-fucking-ever, and see Sarah mother fucking Palin as a credible candidate for serious positions of influence and leadership. SARAH PALIN. A thinking person cannot seriously justify demands to see that woman entrusted with national office. You can’t do it and you know you can’t.

Come on. Who’s the wackiest, most way, waaaaaay out-there figure that you can come up with on “the other side?” Honestly, who? Michael Moore? Who isn’t even running for office, let alone a leading candidate for President, and who, if he ever were elected to office would probably have the integrity to finish out a goddamn term before bailing out to go around tooting and “tweeting” full-time?

There simply IS NO FUCKING EQUIVALENCY right now. Sorry, I know how hard that is to cope with. FUCKING COPE WITH IT ANYWAY.

Jesus mother fucking Christ, when someone like The Economist wants to trot out an example of a thoughtful, reasoned figure from the right wing of American politics, the best that they can do is Megan McCardle or this guy. These people really are the best they can find.

Because the vast majority of American reactionaries, being not only blinkered and delusional, but eagerly, rabidly delusional, make mere practitioners of childish fallacy seem like Voltaire by comparison.

I’m sorry, journalism. For all the many faults, which I am happy to acknowledge, on the American left, there is no equivalency between us and “the other side” when it comes to blame for the useless, brainless, spiteful state of American politics.

When you suggest that there is… you are FULL OF SHIT.