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"but see thats what i meant by teams. i know you know she is inconsequential. and yet you post. all i can take from it is indirect attack to the right"
Welcome to reality. That's the problem with libertarians in particular and most people who tend to be starry eyed idealists. I recognize there are "teams" as you put it, and they tend to be simplistic, idiotic, manipulated, and generally have ill advised and biased views of reality.
The problem is that these "teams" are in fact the structure of political discussion and power, irregardless of the , so you have to deal with them. They may be idiotic and senseless, but inconsequential they are not. They are powerful. And sarcasm is one very useful tool to deal with the powerful. See Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, etc. Yes, it's an indirect attack on the powerful, not the "right".
Sure, Palin is a moron, but that moron is now and probably will be the leading candidate for the Republican party in 2012. You can't dismiss her
It's like Galileo saying "The earth is round, and that's the undeniable truth and this Catholic Church team are idiots, so therefore they are inconsequential." Which would be a mistake of course, because the Catholic Church "team" had power over life, limb and property and idn't like being told what the "truth" is.
You know, like one of the "teams" out there that is so unhinged form reality they're calling a middle of the road corporatist president a "maoist". Or they think there are concentration camps being built. Or they can't articulate what it is about the 14th amendment that's bugging them, only that it needs to be repealed "because it's about inequality" despite 150 years of jurisprudance on it that dictates vast swaths of the things that underpin our current working political/social order.
Just because people are idiots doesn't make them "inconsequential". In fact, it turns out the idiots tend to figure out how to be so consequential to systems that they end up running them, and you ignore that at your peril (See Soviet Union, Stalin's Italy, most major corporations, American High Schools, etc..and so on throughout all time)