BurtWorm
Wingnut bloggers threaten to 'Go Galt,' withdraw from economy till it collapses
Tristero from Hullabaloo explains the whole stupid idea for you:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/go-galt-go-by-tr...
Go Galt, Go!
by tristero
The best idea, in fact the only idea, the right has had in a long, long time: take their rubber ducky and go home:
Some people are laughing at wingnuts who are ‘going Galt’ by signing up for Medicare early. Me, I think it’s wonderful that the right is discovering the joys of solidaristic (well, sort of) strike action. So much so that I’m asking readers to encourage the leaders of this movement (Facebook group1 – I hope but don’t know whether this link will work for everyone) to take the obvious next step.
The ‘Go Galt, Go!’ Manifesto
We proudly salute “Dr. Helen,†Glenn Reynolds, and Michelle Malkin, for identifying the only possible response to Barack Obama’s victory – ‘going Galt.’ By withdrawing their creative and intellectual achievements from the economy and stopping tipping waitstaff, the schmibertarian right can surely bring the parasites and Democrats to their knees. We look forward to these three thought leaders striking the obvious first blow, by refusing to blog for the ungrateful masses and withdrawing to a secret compound until the world capitulates to their demands! Only a universal wingnut blogging strike can bring the moochers to their senses. John Galt lives!
1 We also have a Crooked Timber group by the way.
For those of you who don't get the reference, John Galt is the copper-haired, white-boy protagonist in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Galt leads a revolutionary movement in which all the top leaders of the banks and corporations forsake their corporate jets and perks to work in diners or as subway repair guys. No they weren't fired by Galt. Rather, Galt urged them to go on strike and withdraw their expertise from an increasingly socialist world. Deprived of the genius of their genius, the world economy collapses. Another remarkable feature of Atlas Shrugs's world is that despite being set in some unspecified late 20th Century America, there are almost no airplanes, only a vibrant and profitable rail system which is run, in all but name, by a 35-year-old blonde woman.
Even in their fiction, the right is wrong about everything.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5191436&mesg_id=5191436
Those with money (IOW the majority of those who didn't vote for Hussein) will do what's best for themselves. If the economy recovers, it'll be in spite of Hussein, not because of him. But if those with money continue to withdraw, or simply not participate, then it won't turn around, it's that simple.
A lot of posts about how they'll be glad if the business class and investor class don't participate.
ProfessorGAC
10. Well That Will Pull $400 From The Economy
They just get dumber and dumber.
Probably more in the neighborhood of $10 trillion plus, but no one claimed you were that bright.
tonysam
13. What a Laughable Idea
If justice is served at all, these overpaid blowhards are going to see their taxes going very high, so they won't be able to "withdraw" from anything.
Johonny
16. In the real world
They discover that they aren't really the driving force behind creative and intellectual achievements and actually fit in really well working in diners... actually I bet most of these people in no way could work as subway repair guys.
Business class and investor class not the driving force behind creative and intellectual achievements??
The delusions they tell themselves.
And no DUmp thread is complete without the mandatory communist rants.
Lyric
22. Works for me. There's a lot of untapped talent waiting at the bottom, held down by useless, wealthy, talentless snots who were born with the "right" last name.
leftofthedial
35. Withdrawing from the economy would be a good first step.
First the economy, then the country, then the planet.
Oh, and the mandatory "If you're not with us, you're against us" poster. The eleny primitive is, along with the others, completly unaware that just because their guy is in office doesn't mean were going to cooperate economically.
eleny
37. Then I take it that they won't be voting from now on, either
Elections happen and they lost. Instead of developing a better philosophy and message along with a candidate to carry that message, they choose to try and break our country into bits.
Like David Sirota told a wingnut on the radio this morning - "Then maybe this country is not for you."
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