This Tuesday in Las Vegas the GOP held a debate. Off course, the usual people were there: the candidates, the press, Republican supporters, et cetera. What was different was the way Michele Bachmann was dressed (no this will not be a fashion statement). She was wearing a white military jacket, sort of like a pea coat, with gold buttons (they were actual gold, and apparently the jacket runs four about $500... and now Google thinks I'm a right-winger with a love for fashion, because I wanted to get my facts straight before I write about them).
So I must ask, is she trying to demonstrate that she is a strong women (which gets overlooked in a political media of a lot of men)? That she can take the Presidency serious, and still be tough? Or is she going to be a dictator? Considering she's batshit crazy, I lean more towards the latter.
In all seriousness, dictators have an immense love for garnishing themselves in military garb. Hitler did it. Mussolini did it. Stalin did it. Gaddafi did it (yesterday I would have said "does it", but he got pulled out of a sewer drain earlier today, made a mockery of, and then shot in the head). The Pope does it... well, eh... hmm. Okay, the point I'm getting at here is that where there is an immense amount of power resting on one person, or within a small group of despots, they tend to dress in a way that expresses their power.
Like a rock n' roll star, where there is attention, there isn't just a need to look presentable; there is a NEED to dress like you can waste money on ridiculous outfits. Many of these dictators didn't even have military experience, at least none that is credible military experience, before they came to power. There is something to the Will to Power which manifests itself in the appearance of the powerful.
Bachmann is certainly not in power, and probably won't be president (in fact, she's not really even relevant any; so why I am talking about her, I don't know). But she must be on a power trip. I would hesitate to actually say she's going to be a dictator. That said, she sure as hell is the GOP's rock n' roll star. Or at least she's trying to fill the roll. And maybe that's all the Tea Party is, just an art project (as Scott Sworts calls it in refering to Heidegger). Certainly the Tea Party is not the majority, considering the number of people participating in OWS. So, what is all this?
It's a masquerade. This is all one big joke. Forget what the Bible says, people would rather rally behind the Word of God, instead of actually reading it (much less follow it). Forget the American Way, people would rather call it "American", instead of actually embracing American ideology. Forget architecture, architects would rather make up a bunch of BS and call it "Architecture" (with a capital A). Whatever ideals we had for this thing or that thing, it is no more. We rally behind the name and forget whatever it meant.
So what was Bachmann doing in Vegas? She was being a bit too literal on the drag show that has become the way of a schizophrenic age.
Am I framing this too well in order make her look evil?
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