Among all the impotent “Don’t they realize the damage they are doing?” that populate my blogroll, finally I found somebody who understands that, of course, they do:
The U.S. government is shut down, except for essential employees. The military, prison guards, and air traffic controllers stay on the job. Isn’t that exactly the limited government the extreme right wants? National defense and homeland security, and nothing else. Hard-line conservatives don’t want to spend money on parks, environmental regulation, nutrition programs. They don’t want taxes to be collected, and they certainly have no sympathy for unemployed government workers.
Let’s face it, the conservatives in this country are very good at getting exactly what they want. We all know that time is not on the side of ultra-conservatism. The battles on immigration, gay marriage, abortion rights, contraception, evolution, and even hawkish foreign policies are pretty much lost. In twenty years, these issues will only be raised in comedy routines making fun of the older generations. If things are allowed to run their natural course, ultra-conservatism is dead. Its only hope is a very profound crisis that will disrupt the country’s existence on every level.
So. please, let’s stop referring to the ultra-conservatives in Congress as children who throw tantrums or fools who are blind to reality. The fools and the children are those who don’t accept the existence of a logic that is different from their own.
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