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.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Did you hear about her reality tv show? The End is extremely fucking nigh, my friend.

All I see, whenever I think of her, is a video of supporters lined up to see her speak during the presidential campaign. They were a group of the vilest, most hate-filled people I'd ever seen. Which is pretty damn indicative of the kind of person Palin is.

[elvisglasses5.livejournal.com]

No one makes me raaaaage like Sarah Palin. Nobody, not even Glen Fucking Beck. I need a buffer, like Jon Stewart, to keep me from putting my fist straight through my laptop screen whenever I have to hear about her.

(Why is my flist so chatty tonight? CAN'T STOP REPLYING.)

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

holy shit, the comparisons are chilling! i like to point and mock, but you know, she hasn't gone away and it is more than a little scary that she's still holding her own out there in her folksy you-betcha kind of a way...

[corbyinoz.livejournal.com]

There are some things that an outsider just can't understand about America. Like - how come health care reform was called an 'abomination to God'. Because making sure everyone gets looked after is so evil? And Sarah Palin. Look, I break out into a cold sweat whenever I see her, and I'm half a world away. I don't know how the sane folk in the US cope.

Here's the thing; Hitler was regarded as a joke when he began his political career in the 20s. And right up until he took power, the smart, sane, civilized people were saying to each other, "They're kidding, right? No one could fall for that hate filled looney tune."

[ann-tara.livejournal.com]

It's the fawning over Palin, the cable popularity of Faux News, and the hatred for the population on the part of what is now considerfed the Republican Party that are just a few of the things that make me truly despair for this country. I don't know what we are anymore.

[the0neru.livejournal.com]

Reading your entry and the comparisons to Flagg (eeek, although Flagg still frightens me more because at least he was/is *intelligent*) and Stillson (closer analogy, IMO - more like puppets), it occurred to me: given that the Bible was written from a patriarchal viewpoint, of course most of the prominent figures are male. But how much of Palin's "character"/persona lines up with that of the Antichrist?!

Talk about bringing the Apocalypse down in tone. o_O

[cpsings4him.livejournal.com]

Sarah Palin is the scariest thing I've seen in politics in a very long time. And that's including GWB. O_O