"She wants us to think about government the way the early Colonists thought about England. She wants us to arm ourselves that we can fight the Redcoats. She wants us to live in a relentless, simmering state of rebellion: ever angry, ever mistrustful, ever detesting the people we've elected to run the government, the people who cover the people in government. She wants us to feel towards government the way angry, middle-aged bikers look at government: as the enemy.
This is why the 2012 election is not about who will lead us, but whether we are ready to vote against the belief that we are governing ourselves. What a negative, self-defeating proposition she makes. What a strange reason for remaining in public life. She gets the history wrong because she gets the United States wrong. We are a self-governing country, and the people that matter are the ones who help us do it, not the people who attack, but do not lead."
And I don't often say this, but Chris Matthews is 100% right about Palin. This is why she will never run for a government office again, because she's running a long con involving at heart, a childish, petulant, entitled viewpoint that says if you don't agree with the actions of our representative democracy, instead of settling that at the voting booth the next election, that instead they are illegitimate and must be rebelled against.
When people she disagrees with win an election, that election is void. That's not what a democracy is all about at all, and certainly not what the United States of America is all about. And yet, Matthews's analysis both seemingly proves that Palin has no intention of running for public office, and that she shouldn't be taken seriously as a candidate for such.
That's Palin laid bare, certainly.
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