NEW ADVENTURES IN BATSHIT
Feb. 26th, 2010 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogLong-time readers may have gathered that when it comes to US politics, I’m not a big fan of Republicans. Some people take this to mean that I’m therefore a Democrat by default.
Well, no. Not exactly. I’m not enthralled by either party, to be honest. But one thing the Democrats have going for them is this:
They don’t have party members going around trying to argue that Planned Parenthood shouldn’t get govt funding because abortion leads to God punishing women by making them give birth to deformed children.
Also, they don’t generally push for legislation that would make miscarriage via reckless act (like falling down the stairs) equivalent to homicide.
Seriously. I’d be embarrassed to be a card-carrying member of any party that came up with stuff this weird and tried to pass it off as a reasoned argument.
That said, I’ve recently formulated a theory that all of this may actually be a clever tactical ploy of some kind. Maybe ... just maybe ... these people think that the way to win an argument is to take the most extreme made-up batshit position possible to the point where you couldn’t possibly argue against it even if you wanted to ... and so the conservatives win.
Or shit, maybe they ARE batshit. An argument could be made. So to speak.
Whatever. The Democrats may be full of bad ideas, but if the alternative is paranoid superstitious fearmongering God-bothering crazy talk, I’d rather be mistaken for one of the bad-idea people, thanks.
But that's just me.
A suitable case for treatment,
This is dF
Well, no. Not exactly. I’m not enthralled by either party, to be honest. But one thing the Democrats have going for them is this:
They don’t have party members going around trying to argue that Planned Parenthood shouldn’t get govt funding because abortion leads to God punishing women by making them give birth to deformed children.
Also, they don’t generally push for legislation that would make miscarriage via reckless act (like falling down the stairs) equivalent to homicide.
Seriously. I’d be embarrassed to be a card-carrying member of any party that came up with stuff this weird and tried to pass it off as a reasoned argument.
That said, I’ve recently formulated a theory that all of this may actually be a clever tactical ploy of some kind. Maybe ... just maybe ... these people think that the way to win an argument is to take the most extreme made-up batshit position possible to the point where you couldn’t possibly argue against it even if you wanted to ... and so the conservatives win.
Or shit, maybe they ARE batshit. An argument could be made. So to speak.
Whatever. The Democrats may be full of bad ideas, but if the alternative is paranoid superstitious fearmongering God-bothering crazy talk, I’d rather be mistaken for one of the bad-idea people, thanks.
But that's just me.
A suitable case for treatment,
This is dF
