I’m sort of mentally sticking my finger in it this morning, trying to decide if yesterday’s brain reboot was successful. Pull on my boots without the top of my head falling off? Check. Look out the window without razor blades slicing my eyeballs? Check. Study a printed page and discern actual words? Check.
Okay. Decipher middlebrow political commentary? Um… Houston?
Wait. It’s possible I chose my test subject poorly. Here’s a Brian Doherty article about a Conor Friedersdorf article about a Jonathan Chait article about a Julia Ioffe article about something a politician said. Yeah, this may actually not be my problem.
In fact if I can get through the above paragraph and simply put all the links in the right places, I’m going to go ahead and assume my brain is working again. As well as it ever does, at any rate. I’m certainly not going to try to read the stupid articles. What would that prove?
LOL! FWIW, I saw the same BD article & had almost the same reaction to it, even without the prior experience with the brain falling out of my head.
I did think the bit about the writer (was it Chait; I got mixed up) who thought Rand Paul’s notions came from Ayn Rand & didn’t realize those ideas were also in the founding docs of the country was … interesting. Also interesting that a respected writer appears to believe that any majority should have the power to v*te away the rights of the minority.
I mean, I know that’s what they do in reality. But do they actually think about the implications?