tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498725671447004370.post2052645379370395616..comments2023-10-26T07:19:41.446-05:00Comments on Science Avenger: Red State's Open Letter: Political SuicideScienceAvengerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00855046387193200080noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498725671447004370.post-36725991551671143662009-03-17T18:48:00.000-05:002009-03-17T18:48:00.000-05:00I think you negate an otherwise excellent point wi...I think you negate an otherwise excellent point with that last comment. When I hear people making arguments based on an unreasoning fear or baseless sense of superiority, they are overwhelmingly on the right. There's no liberal equivalent to Ann Coulter, and there's no conservative equivalent to Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart. The future may be different, and the past surely was, but right now the right has a big lead in the fearmongering and arrogance.ScienceAvengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00855046387193200080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498725671447004370.post-90302567216649691392009-03-17T16:46:00.000-05:002009-03-17T16:46:00.000-05:00Well of course the Republican conventional wisdom ...Well of course the Republican conventional wisdom is going to be some variety of "if you can't blind 'em with your brilliance, baffle 'em with your bullshit." It's been working so far. What's left of the party is fast collapsing into a black hole of rhetoric and paranoia. They don't question such ideas as "rich people make the jobs" even for a second or they would realize that markets make jobs, and by undermining the middle class you are wrecking the wide based market system that allowed serfdom to end 400 years ago.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately no matter how many times you logically refute this kind of stuff, as long as there is a sizable segment of the American populace who are motivated not by reason but by fear of people who don't share their views and an unreasonable sense of superiority to those people, it isn't going to make any difference.<BR/><BR/>What concerns me is that more and more that description fits both sides.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com