Newt's Principle and the Blackout of '08

I can almost predict how the kookosphere is going to spin the Blackout of '08, so we might as well steel ourselves for their hate speech.

Let me introduce you to something I'll call Newt's Principle. It's named for right-wing former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, for it's characteristic of he and his supporters fucking up and blaming the victims. Like a true Nazi.

Newt's Principle is founded on a powerful person or group oppressing someone who has little power, and blaming the victim when things go wrong. The worse things get for you or me, the more the corporatists blame us for it - even though their many foul-ups caused it.

The purpose of Newt's Principle is to make it appear something is inherently wrong with the victims - so if you follow this "logic", there's no point in trying to make sure we get treated fairly.

I know who's gonna get blamed when it takes a week to restore power. It ain't gonna be the power company. We'll get blamed for "overworking" the system even though we weren't even using it any more than usual. Just watch.

The media and the Internet are rife with a right-wing dogma that's the polar opposite of where you or I stand. We take a balanced view that recognizes corporate responsibility. In the right-wing consensus of the media and the Internet, corporate responsibility is an alien concept. Corporations bear no burden for anything, even when something is clearly their fault. This makes for some highly irrational babblings from the other side.

So be on the lookout. As a highway sign may say: Watch for falling fascism!