Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Katrina and Poly-Spin
Sorry to, like many, be on a Katrina roll.
While the left is hammering away the usual dogma that Katrina raises all sorts of “issues relating to class, race, and poverty,” I think it raises only two issues, the incompetence of government and the inexhaustible capacity for socialists to milk any event for the purposes of creating a bigger and more powerful central state authority.
When it’s all said and done and partisan committee investigations are presented through the usual channels of poly-spin (“poly” referring to both politics and the multi-sided nature of its distortion), the “conclusions” of the media, government, and bureaucracy will be that “government failed – give us more government and more money to continue its failings.”
While the left is hammering away the usual dogma that Katrina raises all sorts of “issues relating to class, race, and poverty,” I think it raises only two issues, the incompetence of government and the inexhaustible capacity for socialists to milk any event for the purposes of creating a bigger and more powerful central state authority.
When it’s all said and done and partisan committee investigations are presented through the usual channels of poly-spin (“poly” referring to both politics and the multi-sided nature of its distortion), the “conclusions” of the media, government, and bureaucracy will be that “government failed – give us more government and more money to continue its failings.”
