August 02, 2004
This stuff just slays me....
From the the London Observer, some nuanced Europeans display that subtle and empathic understanding of primitive foreign lands they are famed for...
The US has hardened into two virulently opposed ideological and cultural camps that are almost equal in numbers. On the two seaboards, around the Great Lakes, in the north east and some cities of the south, the Democrats have their base: mildly progressive, multilateralist, tolerant and fair-minded. In the south, the Rocky Mountains and the plains lie the Republican base: religious fundamentalists, fervent believers in America's unilateralist destiny and culturally conservative.As reeled the mind. I've heard of "Manifest Destiny," but "Unilateralist Destiny?" Whoa! Cool.
This slop fills my head with notions. Can't you just see those beatific sandal-wearing bi-coastal Democrats oozing mildness from every pore? And tolerance too, don't forget that. And just visualize their fair-mindedness radiating like a sweet-smelling benediction over the Great Lakes (and some cities in the South.)
And the Republican base? Count me in. Manifest Destiny was just a warm-up; now it's no more Mr Nice-Guy! Hose 'em down. Let's kill us some injuns! Preferably mildly progressive, multilateralist, tolerant and fair-minded ones. With sandals. Get ready boys, to crush the inferior races and take their women and their petroleum and convert them to Christianity...
A typical Rabid-State cultural conservative
contemplates world domination and the
pulchritude of Ann Coulter...
Posted by John Weidner at August 2, 2004 09:46 PM
Musings of a Cultural Conservative:
“What is good in life, Weidner?”
“To destroy your enemies, raze their villages and hear the lamentations of their women.”
Posted by: lyle at August 2, 2004 10:20 PM"I could live for the slave, but he could die for him."
-- Frederick Douglass of John Brown
It is interesting that a writer for the London Observer decries America's "unilateralist destiny" sixty-four years after Britain stood alone against the Axis Powers.
Posted by: David at August 2, 2004 10:26 PMI think "unilateralist" has become an almost empty word, like "fascist," or "racist." ie: anyone who's winning an argument with a leftist.
I was much more amused by the "two virulently opposed...camps" line. One is "tolerant and fair-minded." What does that make the other one?
Do these folks understand the meaning of the term "false dichotomy" I wonder?
Posted by: Dean at August 3, 2004 08:47 AMWe're virulently opposed....but mildly, mind you.
Posted by: John Weidner at August 3, 2004 01:29 PM
