Crazy can’t be reasoned with. Only defeated
http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/12471883-452/todays-gop-you-cant-reason-with-crazy.htmlToday’s GOP: You can’t reason with crazy
By Gene Lyons May 11, 2012 10:54PM
After the comprehensive failures of President George W. Bush, conservatives faced a hard choice: rethink or go crazy. For too many, the election of Barack Obama appears to have made it a no-brainer. Millions have chosen the comforts of delusion, envisioning the ordinary give-and-take of politics in a democracy as an apocalyptic struggle between good and evil.
In a presidential election year, the evidence is everywhere. Two weeks ago, Florida GOP Rep. Allen West told a gathering of constituents that he knew of “78 to 81” congressional Democrats who are members of the Communist Party. Almost needless to say, West failed to name even one. Hardly anybody noticed, and certainly not the “severely conservative” presumptive Republican nominee, Mitt Romney. snip
Longtime GOP congressional aide Mike Lofgren wrote last year in explaining his resignation, “the Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe.”
For Obama to succeed where Bush had failed also had the potential to reduce the GOP to a powerless bloc of neo-Confederate whiners for a generation. So Obama had to fail at all costs.
Crazy can’t be reasoned with. Only defeated.
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Without question, any 'right' or 'interest' or 'ownership' or 'privilege' that is solely a creature of government fiat, law, and the state enforcement thereof is an entitlement.
More interesting to me is the degree to which right-wingers (whigs) are invested in virtually every entitlement ever invented by man, including title to intangible property (e.g. stock, bonds, derivatives), title to tangible property (e.g. two Cadillacs), title to real property, titles of inheritance, and authoritarian/autocratic titles such as CEO, Prince, Duke (Cunningham?), King (Saud?), or even Fellow. Absolutely none of these exist in Nature and few exist in equity. The notion that we can leave 'our' Real Estate unattended and even unvisited and rely upon police state powers to ensure that our entitlement to the use or disposition of that real estate at all times in the future is so ordinary that we fail to recall Pennsylvania as an entitlement conferred upon William Penn by the King of England (who never himself acquired those lands under their then-existing laws or conventions) to all lands between two latitudes and extending west to a then-unlimited extent. Indeed, even the parceling out of the western hemisphere to the titled heads of England, France, and Spain by the Pope was an entitlement.
The entitlement of the aristocracy to rape any bride in their domain on her wedding night is another example.
What I believe 'offends' the reich-wing is not an entitlement per se, but that the hoi polloi has any entitlement. God forbid that the government create and enforce any right or privilege to which a poor person can benefit!!
What a fuckling morally bankrupt thing to be: Republican. 
In fact, anyone who ever *heard* of Veblen gets a handshake from me.
-- Mal
And quite a wit, too. In fact, one might call him (endearingly) a "nut." 
Altogether too much of our current political/economic problems could be far better understood if folks merely studied Veblen's work. He was a seer. It's my opinion that our businesses are failing our society/nation due to the abundance of those in it for the money and paucity of those in it for the product or service. GM is the most prominent example. The engineers lost to the green eye shades.
After all, anyone who abandons their Faith in the face of something as trivial as facts and/or (God forbid) science isn't a True Believer. O ye of little faith!!
without going crazy yourself. It's best to back up so that you can look at the situation from a place of empowerment. Truly--and how many times have I had to re-learn this? Whew--countless!! 
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