Now I KNOW that David "Neocon Shill" Brooks reads DU

[Stephanie]

My thread from last week about the RNC's death-fest:

Is the Republican Party just a DEATH CULT?

All I have heard this week is

DEATH DEATH DEATH

KILL KILL KILL

TERROR TERROR TERROR

The Reagan necrophilia, the 9/11 exploitation, the war-mongering, the fear-stoking. Who ARE these people?

And Brooks' NY Times column today:

Cult of Death

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But that's the idea. Because the death cult is not really about the cause it purports to serve. It's about the sheer pleasure of killing and dying.

It's about massacring people while in a state of spiritual loftiness. It's about experiencing the total freedom of barbarism - freedom even from human nature, which says, Love children, and Love life. It's about the joy of sadism and suicide.

<snip>

Dissertations will be written about the euphemisms the media used to describe these murderers. They were called "separatists" and "hostage-takers." Three years after Sept. 11, many are still apparently unable to talk about this evil. They still try to rationalize terror. What drives the terrorists to do this? What are they trying to achieve?

They're still victims of the delusion that Paul Berman diagnosed after Sept. 11: "It was the belief that, in the modern world, even the enemies of reason cannot be the enemies of reason. Even the unreasonable must be, in some fashion, reasonable."

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

Steal from the best, baby! Hey David, show us your teeny little girly hands! Wave to the nice people. Can you say "projection"?