tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32348861.post115730833130516106..comments2023-09-28T06:16:41.768-07:00Comments on Litgeek Rambles: Explanation of today's blog postThe Geogrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00841884887406653516noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32348861.post-1157713079578638542006-09-08T03:57:00.000-07:002006-09-08T03:57:00.000-07:00That's weird. I'm glad the original is comperhens...That's weird. I'm glad the original is comperhensible, but I thought this explanation was as obvious as a bag of hammers. Huh. I guess that proves that signs slip and the differance is the trace of margins at the center and the author is dead, or just wishes he were.The Geogrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00841884887406653516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32348861.post-1157594145856895042006-09-06T18:55:00.000-07:002006-09-06T18:55:00.000-07:00Well, I think the original post is much easier to ...Well, I think the original post is <I>much</I> easier to understand than the explanation thereof.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32348861.post-1157420630327617602006-09-04T18:43:00.000-07:002006-09-04T18:43:00.000-07:00Telling them what choices they can make is not par...Telling them what choices they can make is not part of the GOP plan. Telling them all the wrong choices they've made is. It's a fine but important line -- one the Democrats have never understood.<BR/><BR/>There are *votes* in condemnation. The GOP is virtually empty of positive, normative values. They don't preach "acceptance" or "compassion." Their putative values are things like "fambly" and "freedom" -- words so laughably vaccuous that no one knew what they meant in 1945, and even less now -- and so they can define themselves entirely *against.* They are not for wealthy people, but they're against lazy people. They're not for theocracy, but they're against people telling them not to put up a statue of Moses (with a covered breast, of course).<BR/><BR/>I used to think that the Republicans would wither if they got in power, because everything about them was oppositional. They had no identity. They only had fear of the invisible majority elites coming to tell their grime stained majority what to do. They hated Clinton sex. They hated gays. They hated dope. They hated communists. They hated all sorts of things and didn't really offer anything.<BR/><BR/>Boy, was I wrong! They've thrived in power, haven't they? They've stopped trying to tell their voters to be afraid of liberals entirely. They've stopped trying to target 10% of the population that's gay to win votes. They've stopped proposing outlandishly doomed fringe policies like new laws especially to intervene in state court battles over the right to die with dignity. They've begun telling people what is virtuous and good and tried to lead by example entirely.<BR/><BR/>Oh, wait. No, they haven't.The Geogrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00841884887406653516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32348861.post-1157375453967567662006-09-04T06:10:00.000-07:002006-09-04T06:10:00.000-07:00We were at dinner last night with our neighbors, a...We were at dinner last night with our neighbors, and one of them, in response to something my wife said, replied, "That's all well and good, but you can't really tell other people what choices they must make in their lives." And I replied, "Would you please explain that to the Republicans in Congress?" And much hilarity ensued.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com