Well.....I think it is possible that conservatism has lost it's resilience, and has become dated and antique, and will just die. Like the Whigs.
People are not shaped by culture as much as people shape culture according to their needs. We have laws, so we don't need religion/superstition anymore to ameliorate the behavior of the 'slines.
Perhaps we just don't need the stubborn backwards looking and loyalty to outdated ideology anymore.
For example, this is the age of the flattening of information.
Anyone can be a sage.
Look.
McArdle, Douthat and Anne Coulter all have the same argument-- Roe should be overturned because it drives the pro-life jihaadis into fanatical terrorist practices which aren't really their fault because they have tried and tried to change the law.
Douthat et al are mendacious douchebag-terrorist apologists.
In conclusion, my substrate limited little conservo droogies, Roe has 68% support among the electorate and federalism is simply localized mob-rule, which the Supremes understandbly think is verbotten by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, see Loving vs Virginia, Brown vs Board.
The only sapients that can support Douthats argument are either so intellectually limited (the prolife base and likely Ms. Coulter) as to naturally support the cognitive dissonance inherent in its tropes, or so deeply intellectually dishonest (see McArdle, Douthat) that they can employ mendacious pretzel logic to endorse it as a form of terrorist apologia.
But I don't have a heart anymore...I had a cookie heart but it melted a long time ago. Now I have a wedge of microsoft where my heart should be and an indestructible cortical stack screwed into my brainstem.
lol
as a hereditary republican, I AM the elephant's child.
But there was one Elephant--a new Elephant--an Elephant's Child--who was full of 'satiable curtiosity, and that means she asked ever so many questions.
My question is.... this time.....why are you comparing citizens bound by the rule of law in "heartland" America to Kipling's savages?
The “democratic process” is not a synonym for national majoritarianism.
To conservatives it seems to be a synonym for mob-rule. Federalism is just localized mob-rule.
Douthat is a nasty piece of work, just like McArdle.
Terrorist apologists both of them.
You see, boiz and grrls....the bad old Constitution and the rule of law FORCED poor Scott Roeder to whack that evil bloody handed abortion doctor.
Ah, but my hypoth is that rightside leadership and pundits and radio/tv-hosts are experiencing the same formative forces that lead to the rise of ghetto culture and gangstah rappers......And the base is experiencing the same sense of disenfranchisement and disrespect that the leadership speaks to. That is why Levin's book and Rush and Beck's shows are popular.
Their collective first impulse is to spit damn....because they are angry.
I hold Israel to higher standards because it is a robust, practicing liberal democracy with a history of protection of minorities and a decent respect for civil rights.
BAH-loney.
The settlements are illegal and the settlers are criminals.
Who's the terrorist now?
This is a very popular mischaracterization of what happened. No one “gave” any land to what became the Israelis - not God, not the British, not anyone. The incomiong Jews bought individual pieces of land (which is not the same as getting permission ot set upan autonomus state on that land, I realize) and then later they took land by force of arms. They had help form powerful friends of course, but then the variuos arab groups and states had powerul friends too - just thier tough shit if those friends collapsed 19 years ago - oops, bad choice.
I am not the judge of history, and I am jus' saying if there is to be progress on two state, the muslim perception of reality, which is their truth, has to acknowledged.
Since I am obviously not going to be guest posting, you may read my opinon on the Major's blog. Munaasafa
Still.....the West set it up, on muslim lands.
I am not the judge of what is or isn't historically fair, E.D.
I am jus' saying what has to happen for a resolution.
All the young arabs/muslims I know have the same gripe.
Why use muslim lands to make a jewish state to assuage Western guilt?
E.D. it is extremely disengenuous to pretend Israel would exist today without the Holocaust.
A different kind of holocaust denial I guess.
>:(
Jaybird, I have applied to E.D. to put up a guest post on munaasafa or justice, fairness.
For this conflict to be resolved, both sides must be able to see fairness in the resolution.
It was not fair to give muslim land to jews in reparation for holocaust guilt.
The west had the guilt, not muslims. Muslims didn't make the holocaust.
OTOH, Israel exists, that is a pre-condition, and since we have no time machine we must work with that. What is fair now, given that Israel has a right to exist, however unfair its creation was, it cannot be undone.
What is fair is for the settlements to stop.
That is a first step.
The settlements serve no purpose of security for Israel...they feed the sense of injustice. The settlements only increase terror attacks, because they feed grievance and the sense of powerlessness.
But there can be no progress until the unfairness of the original land grab is acknowledged.
Boo@ Chris.
Obama is a genius machiavellian pragmatist and his speeches, including this one, will studied in colleges and highschools.
GW and the Republicans were elected on a nanowafer margin of 5 electoral votes in a time of relative peace and prosperity on culture war issues.
It is hardly his fault that he switched into epic fail mode post 9/11...he simply wasn't up to the job. Since then he has validated every cariacature of a superstious, unsophisticated, backwards, chauvanistic, angry, frightened and ignorant evangelical christian..... but that was hardly his fault....that was what got him elected.
On “Sometimes We’re Wrong”
So Will....has teh Internets put a stake in the heart of "traditional wisdom"?
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Well.....I think it is possible that conservatism has lost it's resilience, and has become dated and antique, and will just die. Like the Whigs.
People are not shaped by culture as much as people shape culture according to their needs. We have laws, so we don't need religion/superstition anymore to ameliorate the behavior of the 'slines.
Perhaps we just don't need the stubborn backwards looking and loyalty to outdated ideology anymore.
For example, this is the age of the flattening of information.
Anyone can be a sage.
On “Abortion IS subject to the democratic process!”
Look.
McArdle, Douthat and Anne Coulter all have the same argument-- Roe should be overturned because it drives the pro-life jihaadis into fanatical terrorist practices which aren't really their fault because they have tried and tried to change the law.
Douthat et al are mendacious douchebag-terrorist apologists.
In conclusion, my substrate limited little conservo droogies, Roe has 68% support among the electorate and federalism is simply localized mob-rule, which the Supremes understandbly think is verbotten by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, see Loving vs Virginia, Brown vs Board.
The only sapients that can support Douthats argument are either so intellectually limited (the prolife base and likely Ms. Coulter) as to naturally support the cognitive dissonance inherent in its tropes, or so deeply intellectually dishonest (see McArdle, Douthat) that they can employ mendacious pretzel logic to endorse it as a form of terrorist apologia.
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But I don't have a heart anymore...I had a cookie heart but it melted a long time ago. Now I have a wedge of microsoft where my heart should be and an indestructible cortical stack screwed into my brainstem.
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lol
as a hereditary republican, I AM the elephant's child.
My question is.... this time.....why are you comparing citizens bound by the rule of law in "heartland" America to Kipling's savages?
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Gee, that is big of you jaybird.
You can sneer about the White Man's Burden when you white men can get pregnant, kk?
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Pfft
To conservatives it seems to be a synonym for mob-rule. Federalism is just localized mob-rule.
Douthat is a nasty piece of work, just like McArdle.
Terrorist apologists both of them.
You see, boiz and grrls....the bad old Constitution and the rule of law FORCED poor Scott Roeder to whack that evil bloody handed abortion doctor.
On “A Lose-Lose: The Outing of Publius”
Whelan is just a data point in support of my hypoth.
;)
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Ah, but my hypoth is that rightside leadership and pundits and radio/tv-hosts are experiencing the same formative forces that lead to the rise of ghetto culture and gangstah rappers......And the base is experiencing the same sense of disenfranchisement and disrespect that the leadership speaks to. That is why Levin's book and Rush and Beck's shows are popular.
Their collective first impulse is to spit damn....because they are angry.
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Yeah, your position is Whelan spit damn on Publius......MY position is that is all the right has are Anger Whiggas like Whelan. A clone army of puffy fingerpointing middleaged white guyz.
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Jaybird's right.
All the right has are Anger Whiggas.
Whelan spit damn at Publius before he thought.
On “ethnic nationalism inevitably breeds hate”
BAH-loney.
The settlements are illegal and the settlers are criminals.
Who's the terrorist now?
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I withdraw it.
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I am not the judge of history, and I am jus' saying if there is to be progress on two state, the muslim perception of reality, which is their truth, has to acknowledged.
Since I am obviously not going to be guest posting, you may read my opinon on the Major's blog.
Munaasafa
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E.D., dude.....perception IS reality.
How do you not know that?
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Still.....the West set it up, on muslim lands.
I am not the judge of what is or isn't historically fair, E.D.
I am jus' saying what has to happen for a resolution.
All the young arabs/muslims I know have the same gripe.
Why use muslim lands to make a jewish state to assuage Western guilt?
E.D. it is extremely disengenuous to pretend Israel would exist today without the Holocaust.
A different kind of holocaust denial I guess.
>:(
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Jaybird, I have applied to E.D. to put up a guest post on munaasafa or justice, fairness.
For this conflict to be resolved, both sides must be able to see fairness in the resolution.
It was not fair to give muslim land to jews in reparation for holocaust guilt.
The west had the guilt, not muslims. Muslims didn't make the holocaust.
OTOH, Israel exists, that is a pre-condition, and since we have no time machine we must work with that. What is fair now, given that Israel has a right to exist, however unfair its creation was, it cannot be undone.
What is fair is for the settlements to stop.
That is a first step.
The settlements serve no purpose of security for Israel...they feed the sense of injustice. The settlements only increase terror attacks, because they feed grievance and the sense of powerlessness.
But there can be no progress until the unfairness of the original land grab is acknowledged.
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darn stupid link.
grrr
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lol!
The Major is androgynous?
Don't read much manga, do you?
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Stop the settlements.
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I think there are a lot of isomorphic sentiments on both sides, young israelis/jews, young arabs/muslims.
On “al Obamaiya: The President’s Cairo Speech”
Genius.
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Boo@ Chris.
Obama is a genius machiavellian pragmatist and his speeches, including this one, will studied in colleges and highschools.
GW and the Republicans were elected on a nanowafer margin of 5 electoral votes in a time of relative peace and prosperity on culture war issues.
It is hardly his fault that he switched into epic fail mode post 9/11...he simply wasn't up to the job. Since then he has validated every cariacature of a superstious, unsophisticated, backwards, chauvanistic, angry, frightened and ignorant evangelical christian..... but that was hardly his fault....that was what got him elected.
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Darn....okfine, this world.
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Same effect ;)
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