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The Sound of One Campaign Collapsing?
Instapundit has a nice roundup of Democratic self-flagellation over the very real post-convention Bush bounce. The theme is pretty consistent: "we lose because we're not mean enough", which is a particularly naive lament. Politics is, was, and always will be a mean, nasty business because to get past the unreasonable loons that infest representational politics you have to be mean and nasty.
More importantly, the world is full of unreasonable loons who have neither the time nor inclination to "play fair" just because the other side isn't mean enough. Only these loons have guns, and it doesn't take a genius to realize the easiest way to get whiners to shut up and get out of your way is to put a bullet through their mouth.
Humanity is the paragon of nature red in tooth and claw. People who shed a tear and lament it shouldn't be, instead of accepting it and taking action, have no business in charge of the most powerful nation on the planet.
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One of the last links describes folks from my old state (Ohio - and in fact, from the home town of my father) showing up to protest Kerry's visit. that's just great. that's twice that I know of where Bush supporters gave Lurch a good solid slap-down.
Nature is red in tooth and claw... but the greatest benefit of civilization (and, arguably, its entire purpose) is to shield us from the harshness of nature. Western civilization has become very good at it, so good that it has given rise to entire generations of people that not only take its benefits for granted, but can actually believe that civilization has no benefits at all; indeed, they ascribe all the benefits of civilization to nature, and all the cruelties of nature to civilization.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on September 6, 2004 04:41 PMhmmm - I'm not sure most people are going that way (that civilization has no benefit) - there are tree-huggers that would probably like to see us get 'back to nature' where one bad rainstorm can ruin the crops and kill the entire village, but most people wouldn't like that. In fact, probably the more comfortable you make people, the less inclined they are to pursue change and/or improvement in their situation. Hence, civilization ends up being a good thing. They'll argue that everyone else should change, but not them - typically, you'll have a green driving an Xterra (at 17mpg), drinking Starbucks (which I love) arguing against corporate America and their pollution of the environment. Nor is America ready to get rid of all cars in favor of economical and clean public transportation.
However, this does cause me to digress from the topic at hand. Until we've managed to weed out the whole apical dominance aspect from our genes, we're stuck acting this way. Might as well accept what you can't change and learn to play by the rules.
Posted by: Ron on September 6, 2004 06:07 PM