Fort thought it was funny.
haven`t actually had a conversation about this Going Galt business with a single person I know, which I think means that conservative pundits have finally come up with something so dumb that people mostly can`t even be bothered to mock it.
Well, and most people don't know who the fuck John Galt is.
Fapping all over a giant, ponderous book that most people haven't read as if your audience should know what you're talking about is the sort of out-of-touch elitism that the pundit class generally accuses the Democratic Party of.
There's a sort of symmetry between this and the campaign season -- they tried to make a big deal out of ACORN and...shit, you know, I can't even remember the Weather Underground guy's NAME at this point. A few true believers ate that shit up (I made the mistake of trying to argue with a coworker who complained about the level of secrecy in the Obama Administration the other day, and next thing I knew I was getting an earful about how Saddam sneaked the WMD's off to Syria -- which is of course only logical, because if *I* had WMD's and somebody was invading my country, I'd get them the fuck out of there and go hide under a rosebush), but the vast majority had no idea what the fuck the pundits were yammering on about, they just knew they were having trouble paying the goddamn rent.
Obama, by contrast, has picked a household name as his target. Everybody knows who Rush Limbaugh is, most people don't like him, but he wields so much power within the party that the moderates can't publicly distance themselves from him. It's quite clever -- driving a wedge even farther into a party already splintering heavily between the moderates and the fringe.
That all is grist for the Eat Itself thread, but the overall point is that a bunch of rich people invoking a fictional character in a novel most people have never read and implying that they've earned their hundreds of millions because they're just ever-so-much smarter and more capable than the unwashed masses struggling from paycheck to paycheck...well, it's not a winning strategy, and it's evidence of a fringe growing further out-of-touch.
Well they've mostly shat up about it at this point. So it's more like "they finally came up with something so dumb even they couldn't take it seriously."
I'm pretty sure O'Reilly finally declared the War on Christmas was won, too, because nobody believed that bullshit anymore.
