Frank Rich suggested this past week in the New York Times that it isn’t really healthcare reform that’s made furious a certain element in what La Palin calls This Great Nation of Ours, but rather “the conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay Congressional committee chairman.”
Where I and Mr. Rich diverge is on his observation that it’s “a dwindling and threatened minority” that’s increasingly terrified of disenfranchisement; my great fear is that, far from dwindling, the threatened-feeling minority is growing ever bigger — and ever more furious. And because defiantly stupid Americans — wearers of Sarah 2012 T-shirts, say, or persons with fading We Kicked Their Ass and Took Their Gas bumperstickers, brandishers of Keep Your Filthy Government Hands Off My Medicare placards — are considerably more likely than the educated or even bashfully stupid to own and enjoy using firearms, those of us ‘way over on the other side are going to be in big trouble when the second American Civil War breaks out sometime before the beginning of the next presidential term.
Monday, March 29, 2010
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Perhaps the best way to dissuade same would be to quit with all the stupid partisanship, and to work towards mutually beneficial goals. The two-party system isn't comprised of The Socialists and The Racists, as zealots from opposing angles would have us believe.
ReplyDeleteExtremists from both sides are acting like fascists, intolerant of anyone not espousing verbatim dogma. You happened upon one in an earlier blog, wherein your animal-loving household found out how so-called animal rightists actually don't want us to have pets.
I myself express chagrin that any Supreme Court nominee (and later appointee) would refer to one's self as superior by reason of ethnic origin and gender. Not good for any American of any origin or any gender: the law over which she presides is supposed to be the one great equalizer in our so-called system of checks and balances.