"What do you fight for?"

Fun.

Also survival, entertainment and personal-satisfaction.

My proof is that Paul - for all his various eccentricities - has been beating this drum for YEARS, yet when it actually seems to be "catching" the rush is on to keep him out of it. Why? You know why: He's not the "right kind" of "conservative." The Tea Party is no more "new" or "anti-establishment" for the right than Obama was for the left.

I don't generally give "marks," one way or the other.

But thanks for watching the show, though. Always nice to meet a fan ;)

But... but... but I thought "the people" and "the folks" were all smart and clear-thinking enough to see through such things? Why "replace" something that, according to the entire "new media" movement, doesn't matter? ;)

"This notion that the "tea party movement" is comprised of ignorant, southern, white men has got to be one of the most ridiculous things I've heard in a while."

Who said anything about region, race or gender?

This is not difficult to suss out, folks: No legitimate "grassroots" movement becomes this powerful, this well organized, this quickly. Do you think the GOP would be so "open" to being supplanted if they weren't "in on it" to a certain degree? Really? Do you ALSO "buy" that Obama's rise was all just earnest schoolkids and 'the people,' too?

The Tea Party is little more than the co-opting of a nascent "libertarian" pushback by the old-guard Republican power-brokers and the "social conservative" money machine. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Show me a conservative/libertarian movement that makes the conscious and open commitment to cutting the cancers of "values," "belief" and all the other superstitions from itself, and I'll show you a GENUINE revolution.

"I've now seen the light. I now realize I'm just an ignorance rube bitterly clinging to my guns and religion."

Who said anything about guns?

There's NOTHING in Chris Nolan's filmography thus far as director or producer to suggest that he's "right" for Superman, other than the fact that he made a Batman movie that made money.

Not to be a buzzkill, but the "other shoe" that's been hovering since Dark Knight was that Warner Bros. would make the mistake of believing that the "dark" Michael Mann pastiche approach of that film would work on ALL their superhero franchises, when it really only works for a HANDFUL of Batman stories. And this sounds an awful lot like that.

Here's the thing, friend: Nerds run your world. It's not just these two guys, the history of this CENTURY will be the "Revenge of the Nerds." The 21st Century runs on numbers, chemicals and microtechnology more and more every day. The EPOCH of human development where the strength of a people was determined by the size of it's physical workforce is rapidly drawing to a close, while more and more the "strength" that really matters is the mental kind belonging to those who write the programs and crunch the numbers... and, of course, the "creative" class - masters of the ONE type of human accomplishment that can't be replicated mechanically.

Wishful thinking? Maybe... but oh, what a wonderful world if I'm right ;)

The "Tea Party" is a complete sham - the same tired, arcane, belief-driven, ignorance-fed, pandering "values" pablum that's infected and degraded American conservativism for decades dressed up to look like a "libertarian" groundswell. Look no further than the THREE (so far) TP-connected guys trying to take down Ron Paul for proof of this.

From where I survey, if the only choice is still between a "liberal" elite and a "conservative" lowest-common-denominator (also known as "the people")... between intellect and ignorance, between reason and "values"... then a thinking man no longer really HAS a choice.

And for this, I am sad.

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Now, mind you, I'm not implying that you COULDN'T make a movie with a right-wing nationalistic Cap, just that it'd be a betrayal of about 50 years of the character's history - akin to having James Bond be a Soviet double-agent - to do so. So... I don't think they're gonna do that ;)