My Favorite Meme
My favorite meme is one you don’t see much anymore. You can still find it out in the blogiverse, but it’s pretty much been consigned to the tin-foil hat crowd.
The meme is almost exclusively uttered by rightwing nuts and Repugs and is a variation of this theme:
It’s a shame the Democrats have so marginalized themselves because the US needs a healthy two-party system.
Typically, this meme is repeated by rightwingers offering "advice" to their liberal counterparts. Of course, this "advice" is for Dems to adopt GOP policies. IOW, the Repugs don’t want a real two party system–they want two parties with identical ideologies.
Of course, the results of the 2006 mid-term elections nicely eviscerated this meme.
Favorite example is from a character named G(lenn) Chapman Godbey:
What makes it a shame is that we really need more than one party that understands war. I need it so that my efforts at work aren’t wasted, if not worse…
Posted by Chap at 1814Z
This example would be pretty funny if it were written in 2003 or 2004. But the fact it was written in late November 2006–after the mid-term elections and after the US electorate had rejected Young Master Bush’s Excellent Adventure in Iraq™–it’s hilarious.
Further reading: America’s views of GOP crumbling.
