Politics: Where we struggle to kneel in the muck.

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I think the left and the populists need to get their hands dirty. I'm not above getting into the dirt - the difference is I'm backing my arguments with substance. The right can't articulate any reason for the fury about Iraq other than the need for people to be stupidly unified in anger in order to move into any war. We were cheerlead into a "war" based on lies, and "the right" was the chief instigator of the mob mentality behind it all. I may get on board for other reasons, but I'm going to let you know just how fucking stupidly transparant your whole charade is. Somebody needs to keep the right honest. Consider me your alluy who thinks you're a horse's ass. But keep doing what you're doing - I like my tax break. Just don't expect my kid in your next idiot war. I'll have him mailed to Ireland before I'll play that fucking game.

The thing is, I agree with you about the fury thing. But I can't help it that the only people who color your vision of the "Right" are the drunks left behind when the Right left the legacy of the dying northern cities to the democrats and other leftists. The "Right" is not an angry drunk in the bar or the guy doing a line off your ass. And the "Right" is not McNaRummy or Father Ashcroft.

The Right is not Racist, Sexist, or anti-immigration. The Right is law-abiding, in favor of limited (very limited) government, and hates unfairness and inefficiency. The Right does not externalize costs onto other people's children or other neighborhoods. You might think you know the Right, but all you are describing is the guy getting drunk next to you at the bar.

People like to cast themselves as part of my Right to shield their hateful views under the cloak of my dignity (see e.g., Pat Buchanan, Bill O'Reilly). And stupid people like to cast me out of the Right, in order to present a skewed picture of the Right as a drunk in a bar.

Than again, if you are invoking an image of an imaginary child being drafted to fight someone else's war, am I thinking too little of you in believing that your characterization of the "Right" was formed in a bar in a northern city?