Doug Hoffman losing is to conservatives winning as Barack Obama failing is to America succeeding.

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Because I’d like to teach more about the educational value of South Park, I direct you to Matt Taibbi’s awesome take on this quote by Goldman Sachs international adviser Brian Griffiths:

“The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest,” Goldman’s Griffiths said Oct. 20, his voice echoing around the gold-mosaic walls of St. Paul’s Cathedral, whose 365-feet-high dome towers over the City, London’s financial district. “We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieving greater prosperity and opportunity for all.”

Taibbi writes (among other long-winded, of course, but ultimately satisfying and humorous passages):

If you happen to be a rich dweeb who went to the right schools and hung around with the same group of people your whole life, and those people actually run the world, well, then, you’re in the very happy position of having your own bullshit adolescent belief system become self-reinforcing.

You think that reality coincides with your beliefs because your beliefs are true, whereas in truth it’s because you spend all your time with people who believe the same nonsense you do, and generations of your cultural ancestors just happen to have built very high walls all around you fools to keep reality from getting in and spoiling things.

Nothing else explains people like Alan Greenspan and Megan McArdle and all those other idiotic Ayn Rand devotees, big and small, who continually go out there in public and flog pseudo-religious beliefs about the self-correcting free-market as a cure-all for anything and everything, even as evidence to the contrary rains down from the sky like volcanic ash.

There’s another name for this doctrine, besides FYIGM: “gods and clods.”

I wasn’t even 10 years old when I first saw the “Chickenpox” episode of South Park, and I already knew all there is to know about capitalism. It wasn’t until years later that I would learn that there is an entire political party in America which is based on the “gods and clods” line of thinking.

And it was only two days ago that I learned that this party thinks losing is really winning. But this actually makes perfect sense, given the party’s entire worldview is ass-backwards. Start pre-emptive wars to make peace, approve warrantless wiretapping to preserve freedoms, hand every college student a gun to keep campuses safe, cut taxes for the rich in order to help the poor, and, finally, lose to win; the list goes on.