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What's the Matter with Kansas?
One of the blogs I read regularly linked to this with a recommendation to read it since it was "...a great post...". I am not so thrilled with it. I think it highlights one of the things wrong with us as a nation: we have not yet grown up. When I hear of the beheading of some innocent, my initial reaction is rage. A "Level the effing corner of the world and let God sort out the souls" sort of response is my first reaction. But then I think that 1) this is just as bad as what our enemies are doing...no...it is worse because the carnage would be so many orders of magnitude greater.
That being said, I want to comment upon a couple of the Blogist's points here.
It was the crazy-left, the muckadoos, that made me realize the higher purpose of political humor. The reason they get so riled up to the point of insanity, of not just disagreeing with their political opponents but also comparing them to Nazis, is because they take partisan politics too seriously.No, we have had the crazies on the left with us since before the Vietnam War. They are, for the most part, harmless. Those not harmless are the oligarchs of the right whose aim is to convert our free republic to a state run by and for them: period. It is the political right which has polarized this country and put at risk the very basis of our system of government.
Then we have this statement:
Because of people like Reagan, the Soviet threat is gone and no one fears the world exploding;...I don't know about anybody else, but I think the world is actually closer to the next use of fissile weapons than it ever was since the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The reason I think this is that I believe there are large amounts of weapons grade fissile material at large in the former Soviet Union. I further believe that some of this material is, even now, for sale on the black market, and some of this material is going to be purchased by our enemies. Sooner or later, one of our cities is going to vanish in a blinding flash of light and a mushroom-shaped cloud. And this possibilty exists because Ronald Reagan broke the delicate balance without thinking about what happens next. If we can dodge the nuclear bullet(s) that Reagan has bestowed upon the world, maybe his reputation as one of our better presidents will survive intact. My money, however, says that it will not survive the first Islamic nuclear attack on our beleaguered country. Suitcases and nondescript men and women crossing unguarded borders are just as leathal as SS-29 missiles. And they have the added advantage of being less expensive.
There is more I could say, but the hour is late and I have to rouse myself outta bed tomorrow A.M.. Suffice it to say that I am a little disappointed that this was recommended as an above average posting to the blogosphere.
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