Codependence pertains to a relationship in which one person is physically or psychologically addicted, as to alcohol or gambling, and the other person is psychologically dependent on the first in an unhealthy way. However, too many Donkeys (including The Hopester and Jumpin' Joe) are codependent in another way. The appeal to "small town values" was the bat guano message distilled by Turd Blossom (Karl Rove) for The Dubster's campaigns in 2000 and 2004. The Dubster adopted this faux Texas persona by droppin' the g's in his babble and pronouncing n-u-c-l-e-a-r like the village idiot. The Hopester was spot on earlier in the '08 campaign: small town people are bitter. Listen to The Boss sing about "My Home Town." The jobs are gone, the downtown is empty, and the young people move away (permanently) as fast as they can. The Mighty Q loves to allude to her "small town roots." The truth of the matter is that her home town — Wasilla, AK — is the methamphetamine (C10H15N)-production capital of Alaska. The young people of Wasilla, if they can't drive out of town fast enough, speed away via amateur chemical labs. Come on, Donkeys! This is the 21st century! This nostalgia trip is nonsense pitched by the Dumbos. If this is (fair & balanced) rejection of my home town, so be it.
[x Salon]
This Modern World: The Politics Of Resentment
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow". His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Salon and Working for Change. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly.
Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, currently lives in Connecticut. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002.
When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political weblog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001.]
Copyright © 2008 Salon Media Group, Inc.
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