Ever since the Great Cosmic Apocalypse of November 7, republicans have been publicly immolating themselves over their helplessness and irrelevancy at the ascendence of the Global Socialist State or something. While statists of any stripe are welcome to go to hell in whatever way they choose – as long as I don’t have to hold their luggage – some of this breast-beating seems a little overwrought.
It means the dawn of a new Dark Ages has been introduced to world civilization; an era that will not be reversible for, perhaps, millenia.
That’s the concluding paragraph of the linked essay, and I swear I didn’t tamper with a single pants-filling word.
Look, Cassandra. If you’re really that convinced of the collapse of the world as you have known it, do what sane people all over the country are doing in ever-greater numbers. If the majority trumpet their dependency on government, that means they’re really dependent on you. So withdraw from them, and watch as they freeze in the dark.
Not only is he a complete drama queen, but that maroon thinks the downfall started only in 2008???
What sort of egg did he just hatch out of?
Uncle Joel again wins the “wish I’d said that” prize for the day.
Claire: certainly with you on that, but maybe it’s just inevitable that being a DQ in the first place means of course you’ll aim–er, whine–at the wrong target.
Exactly. That’s what they said in Russia in 1917 and look how good that turned out. I agree, don’t worry, be happy.