tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post7836349809913778275..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Republican Death CultDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-88125612827029338792011-09-19T08:47:02.760-07:002011-09-19T08:47:02.760-07:00> There is nothing. . . that big government bur...> There is nothing. . . that big government bureaucracies<br />> can't foul up. But there is one exception: killing people.<br />> These same Republicans who are dubious of government's<br />> ability to do anything right have an apparently bottomless<br />> faith in the capital-justice system.<br /><br />And, of course, the Defense Department.<br /><br />For Republicans, "government" means essentially<br />two things -- police (& prisons), and the armed forces.<br /><br />Mostly it's about protecting the haves (well-off<br />folks and corporations) from the have-nots (domestic<br />and foreign).<br /><br />So what else is new?jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-40930250935118961292011-09-18T17:27:28.656-07:002011-09-18T17:27:28.656-07:00Spot on.
Another scary and obvious piece of the R...Spot on.<br /><br />Another scary and obvious piece of the Republican ideology is the devaluation of concepts like "empathy" and "justice". Around the time of the Sotomayor nomination this went from implicit to explicit, and <a href="http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2010/11/transvaluation-of-values.html" rel="nofollow">"empathy" became a curse word</a>. This makes perfect sense if the main goal of your ideological apparatus is to create a class of people who can be freely shat upon.mtravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02356162954308418556noreply@blogger.com