If only rotwang could be preserved in amber as the prototypical example of leftist “argumentation”.
We’ve got “anti-Southern bias”:
OK, I give up. Which one of you guys was the banjo-playing kid in “Deliverance”?
We’ve got “I’m more up-to-date than you-ism”:
This sort of uncritical, nation-worshiping rah-rah went out with hula-hoops and Studebakers.
We’ve got “just because everything we say could have come from one of Marx’s books, don’t call us Marxists-ism” along with “because you said something I don’t agree with you’re beyond the pale-ism”:
And anyone who can seriously invoke the specter of “Marxism” on a political blog in 2008 should begin auditioning immediately for the role of “scary neighborhood crank.”
Finally, we’ve to “we liberals are smarter than the Founding Fathers-ism”. I’m guessing his source for this is also The New York Times:
Thank God you guys are running McCain for President. No matter who wins the election, we will finally establish a “post-Constitutional” America where improvisational morality, correct thinking, wealth equalization and aggressive social experimentation are free to flourish.
Exit question: Given that Constitutional America was established by force of arms, and you old gray ponytail types wouldn’t even charitably be compared to “The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight”, how do you think you’re going to take anything from me in furtherance of your “wealth equalization” plans?
My “split the country” proposal was submitted in lieu of what would actually happen if your “side” tried to implement your ideology in the entire country (rather than implementing it in the one half of the country we’d give you to screw up), which is a civil war that your side can’t win. Remember that Brutus thought he was doing the noble thing when he killed Caesar and that the Roman populace would rally to his side. Yet, all he did was unleash a power struggle he eventually lost. Your “side” is older and less capable in every way that matters. You couldn’t even organize hippy communes of any substantial size over anything resembling a long-term time horizon and you want to be put in charge of the entire country? I suggest you shut up and live out the last few years of your pathetic life without causing any trouble. Life isn’t the movie “Cocoon”.
My old, gray ponytail gets hard just thinking about it.
I don’t have an old, gray ponytail, but I get hard thinking “If we just bump off all these old coots, we won’t have to pay for their Medicare and Social Security benefits”, which are going to be a major drag on my generation.
