Sarah Palin, Regular American

Belledame has a great post up analyzing Sarah Palin’s supposed appeal as a “regular American”, and the current political fetishization of regularness. She just takes the ball right the fuck up the court, awesome point guard that Belledame is, and wins it for the team with stuff like this:

Seriously, I doubt we’ve ever seen so many “regular folk” get their time in the media spotlight as now. It doesn’t mean jack except that we’re a bunch of exhibitionists and voyeurs. And that we have a -lot- to work out, collectively, about what exactly this whole notion of “all created equal, life, liberty, happiness, yadda” actually -means- for us. Because, what with the apparently intractable ginormous wealth gap, somehow? Whatever else? Ego-salving and nicely distracting though it may be in the short run, I don’t think living vicariously through “Political D-Listed” is gonna fix the problem.

Go read the whole fucking thing.

In my opinion, it’s got nothing to do with her “regularness” that deranged far-right-wing sick-fuck scumbags think she’s just peachy. The reason they love her is that she affirms and validates their most depraved racist, misogynist, theocratic impulses. It’s not that she’s regular; it’s that she makes them feel regular, and not like the moral degenerates they actually are.