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| 2007-05-03 |
| The Anchoress Lots of linkage in the original, only some of which I've transferred over here. Go read it all, as they say. Reading this piece about how the Democrats in the Senate banded together to throw their skirts over their faces and weep and wag fingers at David Broder (for the crime of daring to criticize one of them), I am reminded of Eric Hoffer’s remark in his book The True Believer: The weakness of the soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it. Which reminds me of Ed Morrissey’s observation that Democrats and leftists either ignore or willfully “forget” or simply prefer their own “truthy” alternative to the actual things that were said and done about four years ago: This meme has all sorts of holes in it, mostly involving a refusal to engage in an intellectually honest manner about what was said and done four years ago today. The same people who complain that the pre-war intel of two administrations and most of the world’s spy agencies wasn’t perfect seem to have no issue using half-truths and less in a weak attempt to score points four years later. Aw, it doesn’t matter if the narrative has holes in it - as long as people want to believe something, and the press wants them to believe it - it doesn’t really matter what someone actually said or did. So what if Bush said we’d be in for a long, hard slog in Iraq? He really said “Mission Accomplished” so we should be out of there, already. Isn’t that right? So what if fire routinely melts steel at 2500 degrees - that’s not real science, look at the pictures!…or something. So what if no one has been able to empirically prove that humanity is causing global warming - that’s real science…or at least it’s the narrative. As Hillary once famously said, “you don’t have to fall in love, just fall in line.” Fall in line with the narrative, and it becomes your truth. In our enlightened, post-modern era, we’ve moved waaaay beyond something as quaint as objective truth. Truth is now pretty much whatever you want to believe. If you want to believe that the economy is horrible, despite continued, sustained growth, (what are we up to, now, ten quarters of it?) low unemployment numbers and expanding manufacturing, why that’s fine. If you don’t like thinking that Harry Reid’s land deals deserve looking at, why…they don’t! Move along, creatures, move along. A few people, however, are starting to look around and are saying, “well…I might be a Democrat, but that doesn’t mean I have to swallow this crapola.” Or they’re saying, “just because we replaced feckless Republicans with you, that doesn’t mean we told you to demoralize and undercut the troops and leave the Iraqi people to a bloody fate. Or to screw around for your personal gain” They’re saying, “how is it Israel is the bad guy when Hamas - whom we fund like mad - is saying they want to kill all Americans?” They’re saying “what’s this nonsense about some churches needing to get with the times, when the ones that embrace modernity are imploding and the church set most palpably in the 8th century is the one being pandered to, left and right? What’s up with that?” What some people are actually starting to say is: “When the evidence of something is right in front of my face, why do you insist on telling me that what I am seeing is not what is real, that what I am hearing is not really being said, that what my own reason can sensibly deduce makes no sense? Stop telling me I don’t know what I’m encountering and that my reason is faulty. Stop telling me that the Bush White House “outted” Valerie Plame to punish Joe Wilson, when your own boy Richard Armitage admitted to doing the job. Stop telling me he lied to us about yellowcake while neglecting to mention that the Butler report confirmed the intelligence. Cease this nonsense that everyone loved America until 2003. For the love of Pete, don’t tell me George Tenet is saying something other than yes, Saddam did have WMD. Stop feeding me bullshit narratives that have barely a nodding acquaintance with the truth, because it’s starting to seriously piss me off!” Yep. That’s what folks are saying, bad language and all. It’s not a lot of voices, but there are a few. . . . People are saying it, but softly…if they really want to stop a forward momentum that is really starting to veer out of control…they’d better start saying it louder, and more often. |
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| Posted by: Dave D. 2007-05-03 18:17 |
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| Posted by: no mo uro 2007-05-03 17:59 |