Next Tuesday’s off-off-Broadway congressional election in upstate New York has drawn a considerable amount of nationwide interest. This is the type of formerly obscure event to which only a few pointy headed observers would pay heed back in the day.

Today, however, with the infoboobtubez and cable TV creating a massive hunger among Amerikkkan belly button lint pontificators, [projection alert], this seemingly insignificant race for one lousy congressional seat has become household news for a nation of political junkkkies who no longer pay any attention at all to the cultural elite, except perhaps to slap them around a bit and pull down their drawers before hanging them in effigy.

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The new media plays an increasingly important role, in fact a META role, for in the insistent, restless craving of the political blogs, talk radio and cable news to discover, expound and cajole their constituencies, there is the tendency to confer light and legitimacy on emerging extremes, which are always the news, after all.

The teabag movement is perhaps the most important reactionary movement since Nixon corralled the "silent majority" in the late 1960s to begin forty years of the Right, a period that has coincided with the aging and decline of the post-war Amerikkkan Empire.

The silent majority was a white, conservative reaction to the excesses and mistakes of liberal power and the fear of then-rioting ni**ers and the New Left, which also opposed liberal power in the late 1960s in reaction to the Vietnam War.

The teabaggers, OTOH, are a white, conservative reaction to the failures and mistakes of conservative power. Yes, this seems to be malapropism writ large. It is denial and misplaced anger, except, apparently, that it isn’t entirely misplaced, for the teabag movement, at least in the NY 23rd district, is deadly serious about picking a moderate Republican seat.

The teabaggers, like generations of anti-intellectual plebeians before them, express their real and legitimate anger misguidedly at non-existent "Socialists" and "Communists", for the actual sources of their discomfort were created by the sorcerer’s alchemy of supply side economics, tax cuts for the rich, forced disintegration of the middle class and the hoarding of wealth in fewer and fewer Armani-designed suit pockets.

Conservative rebellion as a result of conservative political economics, in other words. Most teabaggers will freely admit that the Bush Administration was a cause of their current rebelliousness, but what truly has pulled them over the edge and into the streets was the election of a Kenyan-born, communist, islamofascist ni**er named "Hussein."

The Teabag movement has been promoted, formed, shaped and led by the conservative new media provocateurs of right wing agitprop: Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck. When asked who are the leaders of conservatism in the Republikkkan Party these daze, the R sheeple point overwhelmingly to these popular anti-intellectual opinionators rather than their own politicians and intellectuals. Many point to Sarah Palin, who seems to be very much on the verge of unstitching the "R" from her sweater and replacing it with a big fat "T".

And she is the "anti-politician" politician in so many respects, elevated among her supporters by giving up her gubernatorial power base for a far more expansive socio-political role as a facebook blogger.

Where Reagan used his charismatic, sophisticated charm and an effortless ease in front of the camera to advance revolutionary if irrational views into the mainstream, Palin uses sex appeal, photogeneity and otherwise something like the reverse of Reagan’s appeal, a lack of sophisticated charm. She exudes frustration and mocking contempt to connect her with the aspirations of an unsophisticated, frustrated following which identifies with her unprofessionalism rather than scorns it. She is the antithesis of Reagan in terms of her crude mannerisms and inability to express even simple thoughts coherently.

Her amateurishness combined with good looks form the core of her appeal: "She is one of us". Just as the out of shape couch potato begins to feel himself magically more buffed simply by watching others work out on TV [projection alert], so does the average teabagger feel affinity to the gorgeous everywoman Palin, with an identification based on sheer fantasy.

In any event, as Obama has subsumed his glowing campaign personality into the duller confines of an intellectual, technocratic presidit, and as formerly comfortable white people continue to suffer during these times of economic unease, an anti-intellectual movement on the right has suddenly emerged from the tea pot.

Will they win a congressional seat next Tuesday? Are they an immediate threat to the comeback attempts of Republikkkan Party or, as this blogger predicts, are they more threatening to any hope for a longlasting realignment along Demotardic Party lines post-Obama?