On the Genius of FNB Politics: The Logic of Dreams

Digby pulls out the key chunk of my argument about FNB politics (what's FNB politics? Click here [1]), and I want to make sure everyone sees it. Pull it out every time some numbskull says, "Only a hysterical liberal could argue that McCain's 'Celebrity' ad casts Obama both as a big, black stud and as Adolph Hitler":

It’s another tricky facet of writing about FNB politics: In a discourse that plays on half-conscious archetypes, opposites can cohabit comfortably—as in dreams. John Dower, for example, in his brilliant War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War [2], shows the simultaneous stereotypes of Japanese as pathetically weak midgets and indomitable giant monsters. Surrogates need only throw various archetypes “out there,” as they say; the dungeon that is the human subconscious can be counted on to do the rest.