Taz writes:
What do you think? Does my theory of everything hold water?
Mine's simpler: It's the blood in the water.
It explains everything from the red state convention to Christian mean. The American working/middle classes are enduring the death of a thousand cuts: lost jobs, limited opportunities, stagnant wages, vanished pensions, ruinous medical costs: the infrastructure of the U.S. is crumbling around us; many schools are high-security holding pens.
So there's definitely blood in the water.
The complementary color in my theory is green, as in all the above apply because all the money's gone, and we all know where all the money went. But the right can't go there, because conservative Christians made a Faustian pact with wealth in the Republican party. Now the mainstream, corporate right can no longer compromise to govern, and their partners, the religious right, must abandon any pretense to social and economic justice. So things get worse, the water more red.
People are bleeding out here, but they're holding hands with the folks who cut them. Still, they're furious, and they have to turn on someone...
It's the blood in the water, theirs and ours.
"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."