(October 14, 2013 at 10:47 am)whateverist Wrote: Sure. But where this fails as a parallel situation is that the situation is not at all parallel. We think the dimwits who poorly understand the consequences of their (seemingly) reactionary choices are destructive. And they are. They think government is the tool of Satan, that black men can't govern and that rugged individualism is what makes a country strong. And none of that is true.
It has become extraordinarily apparent in the last month that those with such categorical (and largely farcical) mistrust of the government are far too disastrously inept to govern.
Not that I believe for a second that Teahadists actually mistrust the concept of a strong federal government. They mistrust the entity as it exists because they understand, deep down, that their radical insanity will prevent voters from ever allowing them to assume command over it again. Do you think for a moment that the Tea Party, if in control of government, would hesitate to use the federal apparatus to impose their medieval social policies on everybody, if they could? Or that they would do anything other than blow up the deficit on even more needless defense spending, tax cuts for the 1% and expansion of the Patriot Act?
