is the absolute control over it." -- Paul Muad'Dib, "Dune"
For the last 30 years, the Right has been a Cult with the clearly articulated goal of destroying the federal government of the United States.
They are now within a hair's breadth of having enough power to do it.
It is not that this concept is in any way unclear to the averagely bright 10-year-old: it is that the Reasonable Center is either too fucking cowardly to face its implications, or they have professional/financial incentives to perpetuate the Big "Both Sides Do It" Lie that permits the Right to drag this nation steadily towards oblivion.
Your post reminds me of the Grover Norquist quote "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
ReplyDeleteOf course, the media looks at Mssr. Norquist and sees a bright-eyed, single-minded idealist easy for a predictable opinion based on a pristine ideology.
But how would the MSM treat a person known for saying "I don't want to abolish private enterprise. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
Of course conservatives don't want to destroy the federal government: it serves too many vested interests. Nonetheless, conservatives still desire absolute control over the government, and I admire their political tenacity. I just wish the Left would operate with a similar contempt for the state's existence.
Sherman on the Civil War:
ReplyDelete[T]he people of the South became convinced that those of the North were pusillanimous and cowardly, and the Southern leaders were thereby enabled to commit their people to the war, nominally in defense of their slave property. Up to the hour of the firing on Fort Sumter, in April, 1861, it does seem to me that our public men, our politicians, were blamable for not sounding the note of alarm.