Finally started reading Axe Cop, and it is very worth one’s time. It really makes me think we need more things written by five year olds to keep plots being too predictable. And certainly a five year old couldn’t do any worse than the script for the last Transformers movie.

The left seem pretty disconnected from the majority of Americans these days. Like remember how they were attacking the Arizona law on illegal immigrants like it was a far right thing and the same for people not wanting a mosque at Ground Zero? But both of those had like 70% support and were clearly centrist, yet the left seemed convinced they were far right ideas.

I thought I’d illustrate why the left has such trouble perceiving the actual center of American politics. There aren’t white boards in blogs, though, so I just drew something on my iPad really quick. Yeah, I know I put the “Far Right” on the left and the “Far Left” on the right, but for some reason that seemed more logical in the illustration… Know what; I don’t have to explain myself to you. Anyway, here’s the illustration:

It’s a very accurate drawing I made using Science!.

Right now, the politically active left — journalist, pundits, most of the the politicians — are just way out there. So this is why FOX News looks so far right, because it is to the far right — of them. Like it’s way more far right than any other news media because it actually acknowledges the other side at all.

See, the left likes to think the center is near them, but it’s not even close these days according to polling. They actually group the real political center with the far right — because, again, it’s all quite far to the right of them. Lately, none of their ideas have been very popular and they scream and get angry at the far right — which is most Americans who are far to the right of them.

I also put Sarah Palin on my illustration. She is to the right of center, but she’s still about ten times closer to the center than the editorial staff of the New York Times. The left attack Palin all the time on her intelligence and for the maps she draws, but can you even think of the last time they attacked her because of her politics? They can’t because she’s actually pretty close to the center… unlike the left who are way out there with unpopular ideas.

Anyway, the point is what the left consider to be far right is actually the politics of most Americans. I guess one day we need to help them realize they’re the crazy, extremist weirdos, but I’m not sure how to do that. Maybe grab them and shake them while yelling at them. People seem to understand yelling better when they’re shaken.

So when the protests started in Egypt, their internet suddenly cut out. When the Egyptian embassy was asked why, they said that maybe a cleaner accidentally unplugged it.

You notice how pretty much no one in the world is willing to be an unapologetic dictator anymore? I mean, back in the day, you would have a leader say, “I unplugged the internet because I’m a dictator and I can do what I want!” But the concept of democracy has won over so much that even dictators feel ashamed of themselves and need to come up with lame excuses for their oppression even if no one would actually believe them. Like even Saddam Hussein felt the need to hold sham elections; what happened to dictators who just said, “I’m in charge and I’ll always be in charge. I’m a dictator; I do what I want!”

It reminds me a lot of hugely liberal journalists who like pretend their unbiased. Yeah, the bias is bad, but it would at least be nice if the journalist was honest about it instead of pretending it away. Same for dictators; why can’t they just be forthright about their dictatorness anymore? Honesty, people.