The Republican Anxiety CircleIt's written that fear is the great mind destroyer, and if you read today's Murdoch Street Journal, you might believe it, because this article is so thinly reasoned, factually bereft, and contextless it's ludicrous.
Except I no longer believe it. This missive joins a long stream, all part of a creating a 'mindset', fraught with anxiety, fear, and loathing.
Later, these general anxieties and alienation can become concretized, if the Democrats, Obama, or circumstances allow.
This is why all that can be said of American politics is that the 'loyal opposition' is really mostly just waiting for Obama to have a Lewinsky moment or for any true dilemma to go against him, so they can channel all the energy they've been building up under such pretenses as 'Traditional America is Losing Its Nation', Glen Beck crying bathetically on national television for America, and so forth. They have nothing now; but later, they can trumpet, "See, THIS is what we have been warning you about!".
It's a nasty game. Yet, they talk about public 'service' as if it were laudable and use words like patriotic. What a fraud.
