I find Rick Perlstein’s column comforting because it reminds me that right-wingers have been crazy for pretty much ever, and that the current display of irrational hatred wrapped in delusional conspiracy is their standard response to losing an argument (i.e., power). One of the nice things about being at the Netroots Nation conference is that everyone here is functioning on the assumption that facts and logic matter and should be used to inform policy. It’s very therapeutic after sitting at home and trying to endure the idiot wind blowing through the teevee and intertubes.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Perlstein’s column is great! Thanks for the link!
And-yeah-they have always been crazy. No argument there.
But their rage is not about healthcare reform. They have a black president. It’s eating them alive.
And it is not a pretty sight!
“One of the nice things about being at the Netroots Nation conference is that everyone here is functioning on the assumption that facts and logic matter and should be used to inform policy.”
And yet “crazy” rules the day!
Go figure.
this is an oasis from crazy.
True, but not all that comforting: the craziness occasionally boils over to a lot worse than public displays of disgraceful stupidity and malice. Hopefully, it’ll settle down this without getting completely out of hand, but until the ignorance of the masses is cured by education and the very existence of the super-rich is cured by any means necessary, the cycle will recur, and in the long run, their ascendance is a statistical certainty.
It would be interesting to know to what extent this kind of cyclical mania exists in other countries. The same sort of thing seems to happen in the UK and Australia (but far less so in New Zealand and Canada), parts of sub-Saharan Africa, eastern Europe, some of the far east, and parts of the Islamic world. Other areas seem less prone to it. Is it just a cocktail of ignorance and profound wealth inequities, or are there other common factors?
Oh my gawd-republicans-run! Run! We have a BLACK PRSIDENT! Run! Run!