Monday, August 08, 2011

nihilism rising

nihilism rising


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The Obama administration and congressional Democrats are betting their political futures on the hope that the American electorate is ignorant and forgetful, and hence the memo has gone out to functionaries hither and yon, from David Axelrod to John Kerry: This is to be called the “tea-party downgrade.” That this is said with straight faces bespeaks either an unshakable contempt for the mind of the American voter or an as-yet unplumbed capacity for Democratic self-delusion. (Obama Makes History (of Our AAA Credit)

I find myself compelled to read, store, and promote arguments like these in the NRO piece.  It goes back to my earliest days of using the internet thing to discuss politics,  in real time, on the NYT bulletin board.  I found that, in many cases, presenting actual data in response to some leftist canker-blossom's postulation could win an argument.  Sometimes I'd be  met with a seemingly irrefutable counter-claim.   That caused me to spend time, hours sometimes (no Google, no search engines), to get at the truth of the matter.  It was a game you could win, if you were good enough.  So just now I'm wondering why I'm still doing this?  Facts don't matter anymore.  They just don't.  The opponent today is ideology.  This ideology, as advanced 100 years ago by Dear Leader#1..

  • A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
  • If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
  • It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
  • Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
  • The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
  • The goal of socialism is communism.
  • The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
  • The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
  • The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
  • There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
In other times, this NRO sequence would have value.  Now I don't think it does, other than validating what some people already know to be true.  Sigh.  Back to my fallback position.  The  BUTTON


(On the plus side, truth will alway prevail.  That I, almost certainly, will not be around to enjoy the day doesn't alter the fact. Cheers. )


3 comments:

Jess said...

We went through this during the Carter years. Nixon was the demon from Hell, all Republicans were the spawn of the devil, we have to spend more money...yada, yada, yad.

In the end, the next election was like flushing a comode. More shit left Washington than seemed possible.

Maybe this time, the Republicans won't allow so many wusses to join the ranks. They better. There are millions that won't put up with this crap any longer.

Anonymous said...

Before '94, it was impossible to conceptualize a Republican House.

Casca

Anonymous said...

Before '94, it was impossible to conceptualize where we are today. Fat lot of good a Rino House gets us.

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