Just like its not the fault of the fundamentalist Christians or the racist redneck branches of the GOP. These people are mistaken, and they are ignorant, they are even hateful and violent, but they can be forgiven because at least they are sincere. It can be hoped that with time and education they can be brought around.
The real villains, the really contemptible monsters in this little drama are the intelligent and articulate Conservatives who encouraged these people to rise in their ranks, who actively exploited their ignorance, fear and hatred even while they may have privately disagreed with it. These are the ones that made excuses and looked the other way in the hope of creating an army of cultural shock troops that could be manipulated to further their own petty and self-serving commercial and economic agendas. It is this Conservative movement that is the equivalent of the German bourgeosie who supported the Nazis because they feared the Communists. They arrogantly believed they could unleash their attack dogs now, and then muzzle them later. They were wrong on both counts.
Their is much of value in Conservative philosophy, and much which can be justly criticized in Liberal thought. And there certainly is a legitimate and perhaps inevitable historical dynamic behind what we have been witnessing in American politics over the last half-century. But that is really not the issue here. Yes, I know, the metaphors are overused , but just as the "Good Germans" gave us the Nazis and Herr Doktor Frankenstein gave us the Monster, the Conservative movement in America has evolved into something very similar. What they have done to our country is unforgivable, it is an obscenity. What they have done was deliberately and meticulously planned, and that is beyond contempt.
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- I'll just let you guys revel in it. N/T
- We need to join with Clarence Thomas in praying for his soul.
- Revel...?