A brief thought on unhingedness
Malkin’s making a thing about the liberal behavior at Scalia’s recent speech.
The thought occurs to me that so-called unhingedness is proportional to feelings of powerlessness. The power structure of this country has never been more impenetrable, more imperious, more disconnected from dissent. The “common people” have never been more powerless.
The conservative establishment has spent forty years trying to get to this point, and now they’re going to complain that the peasants are impolite. Screw that.
You are great at broad stroke supposition. That said, I think there is some truth to the notion that the left is so unhinged because of it’s lack of power. Power may be the only thing the unhinged-left, not your every day JFK
liberal, cares about. Sites like this one are great examples of where the loony-left chooses to focus their rage. There is no lefty “Islamo-fascism watch” site. There is no lefty “Darfur watch” site. There is no lefty “U.N. Oil or food scandal watch.” Instead we have pages like these that attack free speech. It’s really quite eye opening when you consider it.
Comment by Lisa Lisa — February 23, 2006 @ 11:14 pm
Auguste,
Where can I learn how to attack free speech as effectively as you? I’ve been liberally indoctrinated over the course of many years, and I still don’t have the suppression-of-free-speech routine down, yet.
Comment by Ryan — February 24, 2006 @ 1:04 am
Ryan,
The main thing you have to remember is that all it takes to violate someone’s free speech rights is to speak freely about that person’s speech. With that starting point firmly in mind, you’re well on your way to Stalinhood.
Comment by Auguste — February 24, 2006 @ 1:06 am
Oh, and Lisa, thanks for proving my point about conservatives being careful what they wish for.
The opposite of powerlessness is not absolute power. A person who reacts from a feeling of powerlessness is generally not power-hungry; just hungry. That should be social theory 101, but you wingnuts never learned that lesson.
Comment by Auguste — February 24, 2006 @ 1:11 am
Ryan and Lisa sound like they came off the Yahoo message boards. Cogent arguments, guys - perhaps try to have one. Malkins Watch IS free-speech. I notice the only “free-speech” that Lisa encourages are those that which toe the conservative line.
Comment by beverins — February 27, 2006 @ 1:34 pm
August, I’m no fan of liberals, but those weren’t liberals at Scalia’s speech. They were utterly demented LaRouchies. But it’s telling that you admit that liberals are now indistinguishable from LaRouchoid freaks, due to the onset of Bush Derangement Syndrome.
Comment by Brian — February 28, 2006 @ 6:52 am