Remember Bizarro World, where everything is its opposite? As Superman said, "If I win this crazy game, these Super-Creatures will say I lose" Hit the ball over the fence and they'll call you out.
Somehow this has been the tactic behind Republican campaigns since that great Victim, elder statesman and non-crook Richard Nixon was forced to resign rather than be convicted of burglary and obstruction. Everything is its opposite, the loonies run the asylum. Democrats want to oppress women by allowing them to use birth control, or get innoculated against HPV and by not forcing them to give birth to two-headed, hydrocephalic offspring of rapists. Democrats (according to radio ads for Allen West) want to take away our Social Security, while the Army Colonel who had to resign rather than face 11 years in Leavenworth for war crimes is a "war hero."
Of course it's not just Republicans, it's the Christian Right some of whom insist that "you can't be a Christian if you don't own a gun" Just like Jesus would if Jesus were his own opposite.
Dr. Gary Cass, with heavy-hitter credentials in the Republican Party and the Bizarro World of forcing militant, heavily armed Christianity upon America and the World -- Dr. Gary who now heads the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, perhaps another exercise in contradictory rhetorical gymnastics, insists that Christians need guns because those Satanic, non-cult members want to kill babies and allow people to marry in contradiction of Dr. Gary Cass's 'moral' compass. Bizarre enough for ya? Is he saying that these "Christians" need to kill doctors and blow up women's health clinics in the name of morality? Sounds like it to me, but then it could mean the opposite, couldn't it?
Could it be that the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission is the Bizarro way of being the Defamation-of-everyone-else-Commission? Certainly, or of course not, depending on whether you're a Bizarre Super Creature or a rational human being. If you are a Bizarro creature, you see, Victims are victimizing the persecutors and the ancient institution that's been persecuting others for millennia, is the Victim here: the victim of the victims and if you shoot someone for not obeying you, why you're the victim. Just like Jesus.
When arguing with the Right, you can't win because they'll declare you the loser, just Like Superman said -- so should I declare that you can't be a Liberal, or even that you can't be moral if you don't own a gun? Sounds Bizarro right to me -- make mine a Kalshnikov.
Up is Down and Down is Up.
ReplyDeleteTo crib a democratic strategist during Clinton's first campaign, "It's the extremes stupid." Unfortunately the extremes in the republican party seem to be the new normal.
Damn I miss Barry Goldwater and William Buckley.
Damn, how I miss Jacob Javits and Kenneth Keating!
ReplyDeleteBarry would be called a Marxist today.
ReplyDeleteYa think? And if Reagan were alive today rEpublicans would not elevate him to be nominated.
ReplyDeleteDavid Stockman, Reagans's Budget Directer has had very bad things to say about Romney and Ryan, but that's typical of many pre-Tea Terrorist movement folks.
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