JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE PARANOID…
…doesn’t mean that conservative Christians aren’t out to get you. I’m really starting to worry about poor Tom Ehrich. He’s so stressed out about the “Christian right,” whatever that is, that he’s completely stopped trying to come within a light year of making sense:
The center has been vacated, he said, and rendered uninhabitable. The right wing controlling the party of Abraham Lincoln and Dwight Eisenhower has nothing but scorn for the opposition party and has no intention of cooperating in order to govern. Better to crash the state than to compromise.
Because everybody knows that the way American democracy has ALWAYS worked is that liberals are supposed to propose ideas and “conservatives” are supposed to agree to very slightly watered-down versions of those ideas. Checks and balances, duh. The idea that conservatives might seriously claim that a liberal idea is bad for the country shouldn’t be adopted is foreign to everything the United States has always stood for from its founding until the present day.
Right-wing Christians who egg on extremist Republicans and provide their pseudo-intellectual rationale are similarly scornful of other views. God, they seem to believe, is entirely and uncompromisingly on their side.
Which is why Episcopalians took their various rebukes for giving an unrepentant sinner a pointy hat as calmly and rationally as they did and why Episcopalians routinely and reflexively refer to people who believe that the Bible means what it says as bigots. Tom, of course, is projecting again, something he’s top shelf at. Dance with the one what brung ya, I always say.
Can a nation survive radical extremism at its helm? Suddenly, scenarios like elections being canceled because Democrats might win, and internment camps being set up to incarcerate protesters like the Occupy movement as “domestic terrorists,” no longer seem conspiratorial paranoia.
The mentally-stable community to Tom Ehrich: want to put a little money on that proposition? To the modern left, George W. Bush is still the president of the United States and will always be the president of the United States. Unless Tom thinks that Barack Obama might cancel the presidential election because Obama thinks he might actually be reelected. Otherwise, I don’t know where Tom’s hallucinating all that.
Instead, we find power flowing to bullies with money to spend, religion to exploit and gun nuts to unleash.
I didn’t know George Soros exploited religion or unleashed gun nuts. Please get professional help, Tom. We’re all concerned about you, buddy.
Am I overreacting?
Yeah. But that’s pretty much all you’ve been doing lately.
UPDATE: ENS keeps it civilized. This comment to Tom’s article got approved.
When even reasonable thinking Southern Baptists (practically an oxymoron) fear the Tea Party and Extremists Nutbags, you know you’re witnessing an American Taliban growing right before your very eyes. Is there anyone with the courage to lead a crusade to destroy this anti-American movement?
The center has been vacated, he said, and rendered uninhabitable. The right wing controlling the party of Abraham Lincoln and Dwight Eisenhower has nothing but scorn for the opposition party and has no intention of cooperating in order to govern. Better to crash the state than to compromise.
Because everybody knows that the way American democracy has ALWAYS worked is that liberals are supposed to propose ideas and “conservatives” are supposed to agree to very slightly watered-down versions of those ideas. Checks and balances, duh. The idea that conservatives might seriously claim that a liberal idea is bad for the country shouldn’t be adopted is foreign to everything the United States has always stood for from its founding until the present day.
Right-wing Christians who egg on extremist Republicans and provide their pseudo-intellectual rationale are similarly scornful of other views. God, they seem to believe, is entirely and uncompromisingly on their side.
Which is why Episcopalians took their various rebukes for giving an unrepentant sinner a pointy hat as calmly and rationally as they did and why Episcopalians routinely and reflexively refer to people who believe that the Bible means what it says as bigots. Tom, of course, is projecting again, something he’s top shelf at. Dance with the one what brung ya, I always say.
Can a nation survive radical extremism at its helm? Suddenly, scenarios like elections being canceled because Democrats might win, and internment camps being set up to incarcerate protesters like the Occupy movement as “domestic terrorists,” no longer seem conspiratorial paranoia.
The mentally-stable community to Tom Ehrich: want to put a little money on that proposition? To the modern left, George W. Bush is still the president of the United States and will always be the president of the United States. Unless Tom thinks that Barack Obama might cancel the presidential election because Obama thinks he might actually be reelected. Otherwise, I don’t know where Tom’s hallucinating all that.
Instead, we find power flowing to bullies with money to spend, religion to exploit and gun nuts to unleash.
I didn’t know George Soros exploited religion or unleashed gun nuts. Please get professional help, Tom. We’re all concerned about you, buddy.
Am I overreacting?
Yeah. But that’s pretty much all you’ve been doing lately.
UPDATE: ENS keeps it civilized. This comment to Tom’s article got approved.
When even reasonable thinking Southern Baptists (practically an oxymoron) fear the Tea Party and Extremists Nutbags, you know you’re witnessing an American Taliban growing right before your very eyes. Is there anyone with the courage to lead a crusade to destroy this anti-American movement?
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