Sunday, March 28, 2010

Can Yogi Cure Rabies?

Unbelievable...truly amazing.

The loud voices on the extreme rabid Right have no idea what they're doing. Sure, the punditry understands that their rhetoric drives ratings which translate into ad revenue and money and contract extensions and the influence of power.

But aside from all of that obvious stuff the Right has no earthly clue about the dam that is about to burst.

This country has produced some pretty hefty thinkers and leaders. Jefferson, Lincoln, Darrow, the Roosevelts, Buckley, Nixon, Clinton...and now Obama. But it seems as though the loyal opposition is only oppositional and no longer loyal.

No longer loyal to the idea of rational thought and constructive criticism and debate.

The mere fact that the formerly respectable John McCain would suggest that cooperation is out of the legislative question and people are actually taking Palin and Hannity and Beck and Limbaugh seriously is a testament to the fact that we are completely off the rails.

Anger and frustration is rampant in the Heartland. People are pissed off and with very good reason.

Two wars without any idea of an end. Corruption on Wall Street and in the government. Unconscienable abuse in the health care system. Overwhelming unemployment. An ineffectual educational system and dangerous infrastructure.

Special interests run everything in Washington and the little guy has no say, ergo, no power to influence legislation that might effect his life.

So the noise coming from the Right is incendiary. Advocacy of violence and the demonization of intellectual analysis has left the country on the verge of a complete breakdown.

So we can choose to listen to the crackpots on the Right...all of them from Cantor to Boehner to McCain to Rove to Beck.

Or we can really take our country back. We can reject the insanity of the Right in favor of a calm and measured and shared approach to the solving of our problems.

Or we can just repeat history and end up as the Romans did. Overstuffed and sound asleep as the Barbarians overtake us.

But this time the Barbarians will be us. The Body Politic is so angry no telling what they'll do if they take Sarah Palin's suggestion to "reload" to heart.

Bar the doors and hide the children.

It's Armageeeeedon all over again!

2 comments:

  1. Well said, Kevin. They really don't seem to understand the poison they're brewing. Your follow-up post about the militias is good, too. And today Tim Egan's post in the NY Times covers the same ground, with a certain amount of optimism that the middle populace is may be turning away from the lunatic fringe. Link:

    http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/house-of-anger/

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  2. We're all becoming a bit lunatic...don't cha think!!

    Thanks for the observation...I appreciate the fact that your reading the blog!!

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