Political viewpoint as cosmic singularity
In a brief jaunt through the leftosphere, I was amused by the speed at which southpaws can punch themselves in the mouth:
The point to drive home is that the Republican Party is the party of the extreme right. They represent the business elite and the Taliban wing of American politics. They represent the fattest cats and the most vicious dogs. They’re the party of idiotic war and unprotected cities. They’re corrupt, bigoted, and inept.
I’m assuming by Taliban wing, he’s referring to the “Christianists,” which implies that the Christians in government are as bad as the Taliban. Or, Christian conservatives that govern as such are no different than Muslims reactionaries that govern as such. Last time I checked, Tom Tancredo does not regularly have the women in his state stoned to death for adultery, nor would he ever want to. Given that Mr. Todd Gitlin thinks that all Christian conservatives want to do so (otherwise, how can his moniker for them be meaningful?), how exactly is that not both an extreme and bigoted position to hold? This statement is made all the more hillarious when you take a long look at the Left, or as Mr. Gitlin puts it:
Sects are always in need of heretics to blame, expel and punish. First, fervor takes hold, then rigidity. Righteousness dictates uniformity. Dissent seems dangerous, even treasonous. The spirit hardens: You’re either with us or with the evildoers.
This is nowhere more true than on the left.
Also, by business elite, does he include Messrs. George Soros and Peter Lewis? Or Bill Gates? Or the founders and CEOs of Google? Does he not know that in 2004 Democrat doners made up the lion’s share of big spenders, contributing tens of millions of dollars to electioneering organizations that Todd Gitlin supports? We have our millionaires while you have your billionaires. The fattest of cats, indeed.
Vicious dogs, huh. We are dogs, then? That rhetoric sounds familiar. Shall you be giving us the bullet or the needle when you get power? Pretty extreme of you, Mr. Gitlin.
Of course, it’s no surprise the guy “professes journalism” at Columbia University.
