[T]he superstition that the budget must be balanced at all times, once it is debunked, takes away one of the bulwarks that every society must have against expenditure out of control. . . . [O]ne of the functions of old-fashioned religion was to scare people by sometimes what might be regarded as myths into behaving in a way that long-run civilized life requires.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Republican civility
Dave's analysis at Orcinus is a must-read.
Of course, Nugent is just a fringe nutjob, right? All the responsible Republicans are tripping over themselves to denounce his lunatic violent rhetoric, right?
Let's take a look:
Michelle Malkin? Silence
Daniel W. Reilly at The Politico? "He didn't pull any punches." Ouch.
Sean Hannity? "I like Ted Nugent. He's a friend of mine."
They really do want to kill us all, you know.
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I thought all the Republicans were trying deal with their own sexual repression and dysfunction.
ReplyDeleteWell, you learn something new every day, right?
They're sublimating their sexuality into violence. IIRC, I read an anthropology text many moons ago that asserted a strong correlation between sexual repression and structural violence: The more warlike the society, the more sexually repressed.
ReplyDeleteIt's an interesting hypothesis, but I'm entirely unsure how well-supported it is by the evidence.
Sometimes I sit around thinking, "What if those conservatives are right?"
ReplyDeleteAnd then something like this comes around, and I realize that if they're right, I want to keep being wrong.
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