These ARE the End Times

[oselle]

Twice in the past week I have found myself watching Sarah Palin on television. You who follow my journal know what a fan I am of apocalyptic fiction, yet in all my travels through that genre I have never met a fictitious dystopian villain as over the top as Sarah Palin is in real life. The one that may come the closest is Randall Flagg, Stephen King's grinning, denim-clad antichrist in The Stand. Folksy psychopath (and would-be President of the U.S.) Greg Stillson, from King's The Dead Zone, is also a contender. But none of these characters -- NO fictional character -- even comes close to what Palin puts out there. Her shtick makes the Walkin' Dude look like a two-bit carny hustler. Some people laugh at her but I don't. She scares the living shit out of me.

Comments

[janissa11.livejournal.com]

You are 100% correct in your comparisons here. I may not sleep for a week.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Did you see her today at that McCain rally? She just needed to throw in some jackboots to go with that black leather ensemble. I'd love to know what Stephen King makes of her because she's like all of his villains rolled into one terrifying package of folksy, beehived grotesquery.