How big is rightwing victimology? We now have two data points, and both say the order-of-magnitude range is 10,000 to 1!
Two months ago I would never have never imagined we could actually quantify the magnitude of rightwing victimology, even roughly. But we now have two data points, both of which fall roughly into the magnitude range of 10,000 to 1. That means that rightwingers feel they're being victimized if their advantage over perceived adversaries is less than 10,000 to 1. If the advantage is a mere 1,000 to 1, they feel overwhelmed by 10-1 odds. If the advantage is 100 to 1, they feel inundated by 100-1 odds. In fact, the ratio is even higher than that. Here's the story:
On Thursday, I wrote a diary, "Memo to John Feehery: you should stick with Saddam's WMDs", mocking this:
Digby writing about the Citizens United case adds this coda:
Update: Republican strategist John Feehery on Ed Shultz just said that Move-On raised so much money in the last election that this ruling will level the playing field.
Plus, the little guy is employed by corporations so they can be confident that they'll be represented by them.
& pointing out, among other things, that in 2008 the FIRE (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate) Sector spent 12.5 times as much as MoveOn, and that if corporations could spend without limit, Chevron's 2008 profits were 626.9 times as much as MoveOn spent, while ExxonMobile's 2008 profits were 1,185.6 times as much as MoveOn spent.
I concluded that this line of argument was so preposterous that Feehery would be better off touting Saddam's WMDs.
But, apparently, it's time to party like it's March of 2003. Digby again:
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