While this may seem, flabbergastingly enough, to be a winning strategy for the GOP at the moment in their congressional skirmishing and especially in their media messaging, it pays to grasp that the consequences of the recent palpably crazy Republican policy proposals and their hard-line negotiating stance in support of them is either overreach -- in which case they lose everything sooner than they expect -- or success in destroying the country -- in which case they lose everything sooner than they expect.
> While this may seem, flabbergastingly enough, to be a
ReplyDelete> winning strategy for the GOP. . .
"I've got mine, and if you don't have the brains or the
cojones to grab yours, then to hell with you."
If you're left, then you tend to think this "philosophy"
will be the end of the human race.
If you're right, then you tend to think it will be the
salvation of the human race (and of posthumanity as
well ;-> ).
The secular right-wingers think they have Darwin (and
Richard Dawkins) on their side, but I suspect the matter
is more complicated and subtle than they think, and
anyway, in this Darwinian world. 99+% of species are
extinct, and the human species has no special protection.
Christianity is no argument-settler either, since Jesus
can be adduced to support any philosophy or political
ideology under the sun.
I personally don't like the simple-mindedness or the
nastiness of the Social Darwinian-Ayn Randian position,
but I also realize that not liking something has
nothing to do with whether it's true or not.
One of these days, I'll have to get my crystal ball
repaired.