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October 02, 2005

Great Moments in Liberalism

Part One, from Daily Kos diarist Hunter:

You poor, hollow, blood-painted clowns. Cheering the trials and failures of your country with the same pennants and giant foam hands that you wave at your favorite sports teams. Willing to accept the most outrageous of lies, if they are spoken from your favorite talking heads, and soothe your own notions of America for you, and only for you.

And as for the audacity of Democrats speaking up during this process... the redfaced, flatulent fury with which you declare Republicans off-limits to that which you so gleefully hurl yourself...

Welcome to the world of the politics of personal destruction, you tubthumping, chin-jutting, Bush humping gits. Welcome to the nasty and partisan world that Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Hugh Hewitt, Grover Norquist, Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, and a legion of insignificant lowest-rung toadies like yourselves nurtured into fruition daily with eager, grubby hands, and now look upon with dull-faced faux horror.

I know you hate me, and anyone else who dares disturb the thin strands of alternate reality in which George W. Bush is an intellectual giant, Saddam really was responsible for 9/11, the economy is getting better by the minute, and we capture the most very important members of al Qaeda on a weekly basis.

But here's some advice. You'd better start hating me more. This is the world you forged and, unfortunately for you, I'm beginning to take a fancy for it. Welcome to the politics of your own party, finally sprouting from the ground on which you planted the seeds and shat upon them.

Step back from the edge? You poor boy, asleep in the back of the car the whole trip, finally waking up and wondering where you're at.

Swift boats. Aluminum tubes. Niger uranium. "Mushroom clouds". Whitewater.

Vince Fucking Foster.

You can't even see the edge from here. You left it behind a hundred miles back.

So don't give me chest-thumping crap about civil wars, if your politicians are indicted. Don't give me visions of a lake of fire, if all those who find you loathsome refuse to suck at your teats of scientific ignorance in the name of religion, racism in the name of freedom, and corruption in the name of the New World Order.

Get used to the world you have created, and the stench your worshipped heroes have unleashed.

Part Two, from Daily Kos Diarist Raybin:

It's become more and more apparent to me over the past five years that all the activism and non-violent protesting in the world will do precisely squat. When you're dealing with evil people who have no shame, the old rules of the game don't and, indeed, can't apply if you have any hope for success. Hundreds of thousands of people have marched, millions of letters have been written, tens of millions of votes cast, and hundreds of trillions of electrons expended pontificating on blogs...for nothing. Nothing has changed. Nothing will change. Not unless it comes in the form of something akin to the French Revolution.

We need terror. We need horror. We need the streets running awash in rivers of blood of these thugs and criminals and zealots. Activism didn't prevent 60,000 deaths in Vietnam. All the activism of the Civil Rights era has gotten African Americans precisely nowhere. Segregation may not be the law of the land anymore, but it's still the de facto state of America.

When y'all want to start throwing molotovs and sniping from windows come and talk to me. Until then, I will be content to retire, be a hermit, and laugh at everyone. Even then, I may still just feel like laughing as the world falls apart around me, but at least I'll be willing to listen.

Discuss.

Posted by Confederate Yankee at October 2, 2005 07:37 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Nice group of folks over at the Daily Kos. They're in the numbers I graced with 31 years of military service (to include three armed conflicts). Sorry, my fellow conservatives, there was just no way to exclude them from the protection resulting from my (and millions more like me) service. Defending a nation incudes all the walks and talks. I have but one suggestion for my super-radical left friends - move to Pakistan or Iran and outline your plans to old Osama or the Imams and see if they have a place of honor for you in their domain. Perhaps they would be willing to listen to your elite intellect and your visions for a world of peace through contrition and appeasement. I hear complaints and see obstruction, but hear no soluable plans or solutions.

Posted by: Old Soldier at October 2, 2005 09:18 PM

Uh... um... well, I guess there's always therapy.

Posted by: greg at October 2, 2005 09:39 PM

Revolution? From these malcontents? How utterly laughable. Are these not the same people always singing stuff like "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance"? Funny how they'll talk revolution when it suits their own selfish ends...but I am not surprised, or worried. After all, WHICH side is it that has all the guns???

Posted by: Erik at October 2, 2005 09:47 PM

Hopefully, the dailykos folks have prescription coverage so that they can get refills on their Prozac.

Posted by: muckdog at October 3, 2005 12:15 AM

There's been plenty of similar invective from conservatives on this site. That's basically his whole point - the shoe's on the other foot now.

Posted by: joe at October 3, 2005 12:39 PM

A highly articulate outburst.

But still just so much steaming cowdung.

A lot of polish applied to their tired petard, "See? SEE? Bill Clinton wasn't so bad after all, because Bush is Hitler!!"

>>"Welcome to the politics of your own party"

Indeed. But Hunter's got it backwards (as Liberals frequently do). For decades, Democrats have successfully painted Republicans as criminals in bed with big business, all while doing the same thing themselves. They practially imploded when Clinton gave Republicans 8 years of scandals to go after. And now, they're gleefully trying to get back in the high and mighty seat of pious demagoguery.

Don't even get me started on Raybin's treasonous vomit. I think Old Soldier nailed in on that one.

Posted by: reverse_vampyr at October 3, 2005 03:04 PM

Then there is Joe's useless comment.

IF what you say is true (and I am not conceding the point), then you are no better than the second kid who spits back (and usually gets caught). I thought one of your mantras was "Love will win out in the end." How is this insane incitement to riot consistent with your supposed principles?

Or are we just playing another game of the Ends Justify the Means?

But is has been my experience that it is the LEFT that spouts the invective and hate far more often than the Right.

Posted by: hoody at October 3, 2005 10:52 PM