Free Birds: It Smells Like Something

And it isn't "teen spirit" but decomposition. The new, fundamentalist-conservative movement needs an anthem, a song suggesting the waste and destruction of a circle of hell out of Dante. 

The essence would be an all-involving sensory experience of decay and decadence, a powerful nasal vortex of denial and delusion and the rotting ideals of our democracy. Let's say Free Bird.

It's a shit song airing infantile fantasies of escapism, a me-first imperative and an anti-social longing for arrestedness. It's all about refusing to grow up and be responsible for anything.

The new conservatives inherited everything and will leave nothing. And, no, they can't change. They are vultures flying away from the bones of our democracy. There's nothing left to eat.