Sunday, October 26, 2003
Suicidal Insanity
Perhaps I'm missing the subtle point of some sublimely intricate reasoning, but it occurs to me that The Left has gone completely insane. Suicidally so.
To my mind it seems almost axiomatic that those who benefit the most from a society, and a civilization, would tend to be those most sensitive to threats against that beneficent social structure. I would expect them to be among the first to raise the alarm and urge quick and curative action.
Au contraire!
Serpent Head's political advisory group, Democracy Corps(e), has released a new poll of Democrat Primary/Caucus likely voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Amongst other interesting tidbits (America is heading in the wrong direction: 86.6%) was a ranking of concerns over various issues. The respondents were asked to state which of these was the most worrisome.
I pulled the data and popped it into a trusty MS Excel file... summed and averaged the results... and sorted 'em by how "worried" the dems were about each issue.
Guess which was dead last in Iowa? Which was below The Environment (4%)? Below Crime and Illegal Drugs (2%) ? Below Moral Values (now THAT'S surprising!) (3%). Even below None of These and Don't Know/Refused (2% each)?
Which one was stated by only 1% of these fine, upstanding citizens in Iowa as their most worrying concern?
Fighting Terrorism.
(New Hampshire and South Carolina were twice as concerned about fighting terrorism: 2% each -- The average was a whopping 1.7%)
I don't get it. I mean it. I just don't. These people are the most Democrat of the Democrats. They're the protestors and artisans, the professors and professional victims of our society. In other words, they're the people for whom most of the rest of us would have little use were it not for the refinements of society and the collective protection that is civilization. When things get heavy they're the first to get jettisoned. Without civilization there is no purpose for these people.
So why the hell aren't they concerned about an obvious and ongoing threat to civilization?
Was this
and this
and this
some kind of illusion concocted by the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy©?
Were these guys Halliburton employees?
Do they not see? Or have they already surrendered?
How very, very French of them.
Perhaps I'm missing the subtle point of some sublimely intricate reasoning, but it occurs to me that The Left has gone completely insane. Suicidally so.
To my mind it seems almost axiomatic that those who benefit the most from a society, and a civilization, would tend to be those most sensitive to threats against that beneficent social structure. I would expect them to be among the first to raise the alarm and urge quick and curative action.
Au contraire!
Serpent Head's political advisory group, Democracy Corps(e), has released a new poll of Democrat Primary/Caucus likely voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Amongst other interesting tidbits (America is heading in the wrong direction: 86.6%) was a ranking of concerns over various issues. The respondents were asked to state which of these was the most worrisome.
I pulled the data and popped it into a trusty MS Excel file... summed and averaged the results... and sorted 'em by how "worried" the dems were about each issue.
Guess which was dead last in Iowa? Which was below The Environment (4%)? Below Crime and Illegal Drugs (2%) ? Below Moral Values (now THAT'S surprising!) (3%). Even below None of These and Don't Know/Refused (2% each)?
Which one was stated by only 1% of these fine, upstanding citizens in Iowa as their most worrying concern?
Fighting Terrorism.
(New Hampshire and South Carolina were twice as concerned about fighting terrorism: 2% each -- The average was a whopping 1.7%)
I don't get it. I mean it. I just don't. These people are the most Democrat of the Democrats. They're the protestors and artisans, the professors and professional victims of our society. In other words, they're the people for whom most of the rest of us would have little use were it not for the refinements of society and the collective protection that is civilization. When things get heavy they're the first to get jettisoned. Without civilization there is no purpose for these people.
So why the hell aren't they concerned about an obvious and ongoing threat to civilization?
Was this
and this
and this
some kind of illusion concocted by the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy©?
Were these guys Halliburton employees?
Do they not see? Or have they already surrendered?
How very, very French of them.
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