Posted on 08/01/2011 5:39:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As unreason triumphs in the US, a similar paranoia and refusal to accept scientific fact threaten to invade British politics.
Tea Party madness has brought the US to the brink of economic mayhem, risking taking much of the world with it. In the face of obdurate unreason, the president of hyper-reasonableness was forced to surrender. The economic credibility of the country that holds the global reserve currency has wobbled. The political credibility of the world's beacon of democracy has failed in the face of an insurgency of unreason. Facts, evidence, probability, possibility – none of that matters to a movement founded on ferocious fantasy.
The founding fathers built a constitution of checks and balances believing reasonable men would agree; how could they foresee Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann or Glenn Beck? To the British eye, America was always dangerously prone to waves of populism and McCarthyite panics. The country has reached a deadlock that may set it on a faster road to decline as absolute intransigence creates a constitution that no longer functions. Why bother with the great show of presidential elections when presidents are denied the power to match their pomp? The politics of miasma, where words matter more than facts and actions, lets the Tea Party demand the impossible – debt reduction with tax cuts, spending cuts without touching the gargantuan defence budget. Obama believed against all the evidence that his opponents would see reason. That's not who they are.
I worked in Washington during Watergate and the fall of Richard Nixon; even in that national trauma there was not this unbridgeable detestation between the red and the blue. What happened? The rise of the Tea Party owes a great deal to Rupert Murdoch's Fox TV....
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Just more leftwing rants abuot how great debt and big government are
blah blah
LLS
That kind of stupid really ought to hurt. Being so incapable of independent thought should be painful too.
Maybe Britain will loan us some money.
They saywe need to keep borrowing, well: Let them do the loaning.
How is it that, when a sizeable portion of the population of a country already 14 trillion in debt, decides that's enough debt, that is called 'obdurate unreason"?
Are we talking Kings or dictators here?
I'd love to see how liberals would react if we had actually cut spending.
God help us all.
No worry, they don't drink tea in Britain!
I’m really getting tired of bizarre leftists making uninformed, derogatory statements about the Tea Partiers. I choose to ignore them.
They think we're crazy.
It doesn't get any better than this. I hope everyone is enjoying the apoplectic left as it begins it's full, foaming at the mouth stage.
Ironically, we didn't win a damn thing.
Ahhh ... those wacky Brits ...
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