This post by Sara over at Orcinus hits the nail squarely on the head. Sometimes I have to wonder if a certain political party has been hit squarely on the head as well.
Dear Conservatives:
Your fellow Americans demand an answer — and we want it now. Just one simple question:
Are you deliberately trying to start a civil war?
Just answer the question. Yes or no. Don’t insult us with elisions, evasions, dithering, qualifications, or conditional answers. We need to know what your intentions are — and we need to know NOW. People are being shot dead in the streets of America at the rate of several per month now. You may not want responsibility for this — but the whackadoodles pulling the triggers make no bones about who put them up to this.
You did.
Damn straight. This shit’s starting to get scary out there. I talked a while back about the possibility of Civil War v2.0. Are we witnessing the next Fort Sumter? Canada’s looking better and better. Ok, not really. Too damn cold. But you know what I mean.
#1 by DancingFoolVB on June 13, 2009 - 11:07 am
It might be that the most extreme groups (Dominionists) want to start a holy war that they believe Jesus would help them win, but I think most right wing extremists are simply operating from a delusional point of view. If you study delusional thinking, you discover that delusional people 1) do not know they are delusional, 2) believe that they are right, regardless of any contradictory evidence, and want what they want, regardless of how it affects anyone else. So there are a bunch of people who would be OK with a conflict, especially the End Times believers, but they are not necessarily trying to deliberately provoke a civil war. They just don't care about what anyone else thinks, so if they feel sufficiently threatened, they will lash out.
#2 by CyberLizard on June 13, 2009 - 3:31 pm
I think that is what hurts my brain the most; the delusional thinking. I just can't comprehend it. I generally try to see things from the opposite point of view and am generally successful, even if I don't agree with it ( although my wife may disagree). But this kind of crap throws my logic circuits into a loop.