I need a new demon. Who is yours?

Who do you point at as the prime example of how fucked up things are? Why?

I have to admit, I need a new demon. For me, it was and sill is, Richard Nixon. Probably because I experienced Watergate in in my early teens, when it all seemed so IMPORTANT. I was enraged enraged by his arrogance, and by the Ford pardon. I was even enraged at Bill clinton for allowing the pomp and circumstance of Nixon’s funeral. I said to friends at the time that he should have been sealed into a 55 gallon drum and stored away with other toxic waste.

Help me find a replacement. Mind you, I don’t mean just an “enemy” like Osama or Sadam, I mean someone whose despicable behavior is tolerated or even celebrated within our own culture. And I’d prefer you stick to living rather than histoical demons, as my emotions tend to fade over time without fresh examples of outrage.

The Baby Boomer generation.

Everything wrong with the US can be traced to them. Yep.

You wouldn’t be making a poor choice in Michael Jackson.

Kissenger’s still alive. You don’t need to move on to modern demons yet.

Haj

Sad, screwed up and pathetic, yes, but evil?

Every person who has ever said, " God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve." I might forgive the first person who ever said it, but not all the mindless pinheads who think they’re clever by repeating it.

Or maybe we should aim higher. The pope?

People.

People that are morons, that go through life with their eyes firmly shut and their brains on simmer ™, that believe that stupid Steve line not because they really hate gay people, but because someone said it and it’s easier than thinking.

I think they worship Azathoth, but I’m not sure.

Given that you’re probably kind of liberal your best bets are:

Rush Limbaugh: $30+ million a year salary (something like that) and legions of fans

Newt Gingrich: out of politics but liberals still use his name to raise money

G.W. Bush: (self explanatory)

USSC (for 2000 election decision): liberals like to think they “appointed” Bush but the 7-2 decision (not 5-4) was simply to declare the idea of selective recounts done by Democrats in Democrat counties to be unfair. (The 5-4 decision said it was too late to correct the errors in the Florida SC decisions and that they should go with the original count(s)). My own view is that stopping Gore from stealing the election isn’t the same thing as “appointing” (illegitimately)" Bush.

My own list of boogey men:

Trial lawyers who are raping and pillaging and taxing us all with higher insurance costs, manufacturing costs, etc.

The bought and paid for political wing of the trial lawyers: The Democrats.

Artists who claim that the government not giving them money for their crapola “art” is equal to “censorship”.

Homosexuals who insisted that Ronald Reagan was responsible for their deaths by not curing AIDs. He also killed millions by not curing cancer but those people don’t seem to hold him personally responsible.

Greedy corporate CEOs who rely on an old boy network of corporate boardmembers to keep their salaries ludicrously high while the average working man is seeing his salary stagnate (or disappear).

Liberals who think that the US is basically responsible for everything bad in the world. Everything everyone does, from the USSR to Saddam Hussein to N. Korea is a reaction against the evil US. (Noam Chomsky).
Hillary Clinton and her ilk who want to seize as much power as possible and have the government (run by enlightened geniuses such as themselves) basically run everything. They don’t trust the rubes out there in flyover country to manage themselves.

Conservatives who think that lower taxes rates will raise tax receipts. Except for extreme circumstances, like a depression, I don’t think this will work.

Stockbroker con men who con people into thinking that they can outperform the stock market through their superior skills.

Jubilex?
[D&R]

A hearty “ditto” for the “Noam Chomsky-type Liberals,” bri1600bv.

As for my own suggestion…Will Hays, former postmaster, Republican National Committee chairman…and archetecht of the Motion Picture Production Code. He’s long dead now, but the effects of the code are still felt in American cinema today.

Wormy little bastard. Wherever he is right now, I hope he’s nice and warm. :mad:

Ranchoth
(On the plus side, one might credit him for giving Anime a “leg up” in the American market. But still…)

Bri,

I love you!

Thanks for the suggestions so far. Here’s what I’m thinking about them:

Baby Boomers - Too general, and I’m one of them
Michael Jackson - too lame
Kissinger - on a possibles list, but I’d prefer a fresher demon
homophobic idiots - again too general, I need an individual
moron people?? - oh, come on, you’re not even trying
Rush Limbaugh - a comedian, unworthy of demonhood
Newt Gingrich - a perfect demon for the 90’s had I rid myself of the Nixon demon earlier. Too unimportant for the new millennium.
GWB - Lots of promise for the future, but I think he’s more a demon puppet now. On the list, though.

I won’t respond any more to people “types”. I need an individual.

Hillary Clinton - lacks the resources to be a demon. Might grow into one, though.
Jubilex? – sorry don’t get the reference. Must be a real person. Is this the case?
Will Hays - an excellent retired (i.e., dead) demon, just too irrelevant.

Rumsfeld?

John Ashcroft.

Come on, people. Public Demon #1 has to be Fred Phelps. Is there a funeral he hasn’t picketed?

I don’t want to drag Eve here, but I believe that Breen (the man who ran the censorship office between the 1930’s and 1950’s) was at least 10 powers (^10) worst than Hays.

InternetLegend got it right. Ashcroft is the only reasonable choice. I can’t believe I play fantasy football with his nephew.

So…it was Breen’s fault that the 50s always seem so “L7”?

I think he and Hays are long overdue for a good “Cromwelling.”

I denounce all the “Hate Radio” commentators.

When my old dad listens to them he starts the most extreme conversations:
“We should make prisoners share beds and sleep in shifts!”
“If speaking foreign languages were ticketable, we’d soon find out they can all really speak English but just don’t want to.”

Leave Dad alone, okay? He may be desperate for someone to listen to, but that’s no reason to take advantage of him with bullshit.

Moving this to the BBQ Pit.