The Fall of the One-Party Empire (Liberals are Funny!)

The Nation ^ | November 22, 2005 | Jonathan Schell

[StoneWallJack]

The author's bio is something to behold!

It begs the question of "how the Schell does one become The Nation's peace and disarmament correspondent and the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute?"

Bad analogies and wacko reasoning must be part of the criteria for both positions...

[perfect stranger]

Tacoma Narrows video link

[The Old Hoosier]

The failed empire, in the shape of its failed war, has driven down the President's support to the point at which others, cowed until now, feel free to attack him.

You've got to love this. I mean, really, who HASN'T been attacking Bush??? Name the liberals who have been so scared, really! I've been hearing them bitch and moan for five years now as if everything Bush does is the worst thing ever done.

I don't see these people getting audited by the IRS, like in the Clinton years, or investigated by the FBI, like under Johnson. The worst they have to fear is maybe (gasp) the loss of some federal money, and I think we can all agree that Bush hasn't been nearly willing enough to pull that trigger.

Oh, they're so brave! Oh, they're so long-suffering! Those liberals, how admirable!!!

[Fledermaus]

For some time I have been suggesting here that the aim of Republican strategy has been a Republican Party that permanently runs the United States and a United States that permanently runs the world.

Oh, like when liberal Democrats did for over 60 decades? Sore losers all.

[Liberty Valance]

Shhhh! Don't wake them. Livin' in the sixties is all they've got left.

[denydenydeny]

Not since the Soviet Union fell fourteen years ago have we witnessed a greater reversal of fortune

Not since Jonathan Schell totally failed to forsee the fall of the Soviet Union--he spent the 80s demanding that the West surrender to the Soviets to avoid an otherwise inevitable nuclear war--has any commentator been so totally wrong as this clown is here.

[AZ_Cowboy]

At this rate, the Napoleon XIV Record is going to get worn out.

[denydenydeny]

The failed empire, in the shape of its failed war, has driven down the President's support to the point at which others, cowed until now, feel free to attack him. The institutions of government and the economy, drawn like iron filings into the magnetic field of power, failed at first to check the Administration. But the public, represented by opinion polls, has stepped in, and the institutions are following.

It would have helped Schell's childish argument if the public didn't view the Democrats with even more hostility than they view the Administration.

[Vince Ferrer]

For some time I have been suggesting here that the aim of Republican strategy has been a Republican Party that permanently runs the United States and a United States that permanently runs the world.

"...and I have also been suggesting that George Bush is a Sith Lord, but even my friends tell me to leave that one out."

[Eddie01]

That is exactly what I am talking about.

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[jonrick46]

It was learned during construction that the Narrows Bridge had a peculiar twist during strong winds. As People would come from miles away to experience driving their cars across "Galloping Gertie", officials were paralyzed with denial. People knew they got a good ride when they would see cars disappearing in the undulations. In the video shot by Ed Elliot, you will notice there are still cars on the bridge, willing to experience the thrill of the bridge. This is a good analogy. Liberals will continue to drive across the bridge even when the evidence shows it is a failed bridge. Liberals will stay in denial of their failure and find thrill when failure is the result.

[driftless]

"failed to foresee the fall of the Soviet Union".

You obviously remember Schell's book "The Fate Of The Earth" which was given big play in the rags. Of course Schell was regarded as a great and wise seer who naturally had all the facts. Even my arch-conservative bro felt that nuclear war was inevitable. However I felt from the mid-seventies on that the Soviet Union was in bad shape economically and ripe for failure.

[Hardastarboard]

one-party global empire

The Dems controlled the government for 40 years, but that was OK? And of course, we've conveniently forgotten that.

I've forgotten. Who are we at war with now? Is it Oceania? It seems to change from month to month.

/obtuse "1984" reference mode