While I find the author of the Salon column's baldface attempts at recruitment pretty funny (somehow I get the impression that the author is perhaps as guilty of being a smug, sheltered person themselves), there is a kernel of truth:
The GOP has been overrun with both libertarian ideologues and the "Christian" right (yes, I put Christian in quotes, because the Christian thought that makes up this movement represents a very narrow, fanatical variety whose orthodoxy is questionable and hardly representative) -- neither of which are very good at actually governing (because they are so invested, so smug, so cocooned within their true faith they will not look at other people, nor will they compromise), and neither of which can really claim to be upholders of the Constitution (for that very reason). In short, they cannot admit that they are wrong, ever; they cannot think outside their own self-constructed, group supported boxes (kinda like leftists).
Not exactly a welcoming environment for anyone who doesn't subscribe totally to their views. This is a bit of a problem for the more traditional type of Republican/conservative...
What has been done to the party of Lincoln?
PW
Oh, and yeah, a lot of atheists are indeed smug, entitled, white folks usually of academia who have become yet another form of aesthete mandarin, no more inclined to critical thinking than those Bible thumping morons, quite sure that they are never wrong (really not good atheists imhao). So yep, the author was correct: that probably needs to change.
So because a liberal publication publishes something about Republicans, it automatically becomes the truth in your little walnut brain?
ReplyDeleteWhile I find the author of the Salon column's baldface attempts at recruitment pretty funny (somehow I get the impression that the author is perhaps as guilty of being a smug, sheltered person themselves), there is a kernel of truth:
ReplyDeleteThe GOP has been overrun with both libertarian ideologues and the "Christian" right (yes, I put Christian in quotes, because the Christian thought that makes up this movement represents a very narrow, fanatical variety whose orthodoxy is questionable and hardly representative) -- neither of which are very good at actually governing (because they are so invested, so smug, so cocooned within their true faith they will not look at other people, nor will they compromise), and neither of which can really claim to be upholders of the Constitution (for that very reason). In short, they cannot admit that they are wrong, ever; they cannot think outside their own self-constructed, group supported boxes (kinda like leftists).
Not exactly a welcoming environment for anyone who doesn't subscribe totally to their views.
This is a bit of a problem for the more traditional type of Republican/conservative...
What has been done to the party of Lincoln?
PW
Oh, and yeah, a lot of atheists are indeed smug, entitled, white folks usually of academia who have become yet another form of aesthete mandarin, no more inclined to critical thinking than those Bible thumping morons, quite sure that they are never wrong (really not good atheists imhao). So yep, the author was correct: that probably needs to change.