Why Do Republicans Hate America So Much?
So, many Republicans seem to be taking up residence in the reality-based community these days.
O.k., tell me what I'm missing here: if you warned about this stuff when it first because clear, and when it was early enough to do something about it, then you are a traitor or an America-hater, or a barking moonbat, or whatever. But if you scrupulously avert your eyes from the facts out of partisan loyalty until most of the damage is already done, and then point out that things are going bad, then...what? Is that the patriotic thing? Or what? Maybe to be a true patriot you have to continue to avert your eyes until all is lost...
Dang, this stuff is just too subtle and complicated for me.
So, many Republicans seem to be taking up residence in the reality-based community these days.
O.k., tell me what I'm missing here: if you warned about this stuff when it first because clear, and when it was early enough to do something about it, then you are a traitor or an America-hater, or a barking moonbat, or whatever. But if you scrupulously avert your eyes from the facts out of partisan loyalty until most of the damage is already done, and then point out that things are going bad, then...what? Is that the patriotic thing? Or what? Maybe to be a true patriot you have to continue to avert your eyes until all is lost...
Dang, this stuff is just too subtle and complicated for me.
posted by Winston Smith at
1:12 PM
2 Comments:
Yah -- I have seen entire blogs and web discussion boards where it was too subtle for the inhabitants thereof, too.
Funny about that.
Well, all in all, these types of refiguring are a bit refreshing, that is, perhaps a better way of doing things will slowly evolve. Slowly, very slowly.
My main concern (naive, but deeply held), is that we have lost (maybe we never had it) strong leaders who would rather be morally right than politically right. That is, doing the right thing on moral grounds is now a sign of weakness. If you aren't political enough, you are not manly, or strong, or whatever. Doing what you know is right (and losing politically) is not cool. You are tarred as a naive silly boy (or girl), when what (in my opinion) you are is someone who is morally serious.
This war is a mistake. Killing people, including our soldiers to pretend otherwise is politically OK, but morally reprehensible. As was the whole thing from the start, but that is not my point. At the point you realize that you cannot make progress or achieve your goals, the bloodshed alone should make you re-think and withdraw. This is weak politically, but right morally. There are real human lives we are talking about, that should count for a lot.
In short, continuing this mayhem is, in my mind, unconscionable. Simply, flat out wrong. How can we be asking people to die for something that we know is not going to work? (Bad paraphrase of Kerry's "how can you ask a man to be the last one to die for a mistake?").
This is a bad, bad deal with no, nada, zilch possibility of ending well. Knowing that, it's time to get out. Morally.
And morality trumps politics, in my mind, especially when so many people are dying such horrible and needless deaths.
In any event, to return to optimism of sorts, it is perhaps a good thing that folks are getting the message, and hopefully we can work to extricate ourselves (that is, the troops, who are dying) sometime sooner rather than later.
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