Does Danziger go too far with this toon?

[spike91nz]

37. no

the right does appear to imagine purification of America of those liberal miscreants and unbelievers. Look who Oliver North and Reagan were considering for rounding up and placement in camps under pretense of a national disaster. They were civil right leaders, civil liberties advocates, labor leaders and liberals. The impulse toward purification is a consequence of the authoritarian position failing to deliver on utopian promises and redirecting the blame to those imagined to be the responsible contaminating elements. They fail to understand that such impulse toward purity is an endless enterprise finally resulting in theocratic solutions of form over substance and the selection of scapegoats to explain the failure of the project. Authoritarianism is self defeating in the long-run and cannot provide the opportunity for the diversity necessary for adaptation to changing conditions. Authoritarianism is always past oriented and inherently paranoid in its with respect to reason and critical thought. Why those in power fail to understand the basic structural issues of the authoritarian position is either attributable to the distortion of their thought process in the service of their unexamined assumptions or to a lack of intellectual capacity. In either case their failure to see the effects of their strategy in the long-term is sufficient to disqualify them from holding such power over our common human destiny.