Alkhateeb? Alkhateeb's a punk. The real artist remains a shadow, but whoever he is I'm putting him up as the official artist of the Conservative Revolutionary Front (CRF).
The classic "Who done it?" remains. It's not the Kuchinch supporter rendering spooky mash-ups on the Internet that's the hero of this classic bit of Appropriationist art. It's the mysterious Man in the Arena with a bunch of Samizdat Smash the State posters and a pot of paste for sticking them up.
The young hippies didn't riot for their ideals, they rioted to impress their girlfriend and get laid. There is not a lot of idealism to avoiding the draft so that you won't get your ass exposed to bullets in the battlefield.
But when you get middle agers and oldsters out of their barcaloungers into the streets, you know you have an issue that's not hidden. It's right out in public, and to ridicule, denigrate or talk down to these people is a BIG mistake;
Whether you are a politician or and editor. To do so may make you feel good (and get you kudos from your amen corner)- temporarily - but it's stupid ... it's beyond stupid, its suicidal.
But they can't help it. It's in their genes. It's always worked before. But like a wise man once said, a trend continues ... until it stops. And the Left will not recognize the end of a trend until their house comes down around their ears. Some lessons are not learned, they must be experienced.
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