I must say that I find it offensive, galling in the extreme that Jon Stewart is winning kudos for his attack on the Obamacare rollout - reasonable people unstained by ideological bias have known all along that this thing was trouble for many reasons [ie not just implementation], so why is Stewart being credited for being either too stupid or too blinded by bias to have figured this out long ago? But more than that, let's remember it's because of the shameless cheerleading of Obama in the 2008 primary over Hillary by people like Stewart that we're stuck with this mess in the first place - I think naive fools like Stewart, who acted as if by simply electing the black guy president we'd be ushered into a golden age of absolute wonderfulness, should be held accountable in some way for the damage they've wrought, which at the very least should amount to not lauding the misguided idiot for finally having the good sense to curse the shit he so went out of his way to step in.
Furthermore, let's look at what he said in his little monologue: he bewailed the great misfortune of this botched rollout denying us a perpetual left wing domination of our politics, which aside from making the curious and rather incoherent point that somehow it's a bad thing that liberal incompetence has denied us a future of never ending tyranny under liberal incompetence, reveals two significant truths viz the liberal elite: screw the poor and downtrodden, they consider the real value of government controlled health care to be the vast political benefit it rings up for liberals; and that come the end of the day they'd really prefer it if the country were ruled by a one party oligarchy instead of a democracy where you're forced to actually do horrible democratic things like engage with and tolerate people who don't happen to agree with you. The instincts of liberal idealism are fundamentally autocratic in nature, that's what Stewart's belated bellyaching reaffirmed to moi.
Furthermore, let's look at what he said in his little monologue: he bewailed the great misfortune of this botched rollout denying us a perpetual left wing domination of our politics, which aside from making the curious and rather incoherent point that somehow it's a bad thing that liberal incompetence has denied us a future of never ending tyranny under liberal incompetence, reveals two significant truths viz the liberal elite: screw the poor and downtrodden, they consider the real value of government controlled health care to be the vast political benefit it rings up for liberals; and that come the end of the day they'd really prefer it if the country were ruled by a one party oligarchy instead of a democracy where you're forced to actually do horrible democratic things like engage with and tolerate people who don't happen to agree with you. The instincts of liberal idealism are fundamentally autocratic in nature, that's what Stewart's belated bellyaching reaffirmed to moi.
