Posted on 05/08/2012 6:23:17 AM PDT by rellimpank
Infantile.
The characteristics of a baby or child, says Webster's.
Being infantile is a charming characteristic -- in a baby or child. In adults? Adults charged with the serious responsibility of discussing or actually running public policy?
Never good. As seen here in this story about Occupy Wall Street, replete with photo of a protester defecating on a police car.
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. has been observing and writing about this kind of ludicrous behavior that he terms the "Infantile Left" for some 40-plus years through the magazine that he created and you are reading, The American Spectator.
What brought this memorable photo of a defecating Occupy protestor to mind was reading the stunning, pull-back-and-survey-the-battlefield book that is Tyrrell's new book, The Death of Liberalism.
The book is nothing less than an autopsy conducted while the battle still rages. An astute recognition that Liberalism's defenders are being reduced by the day if not the hour to the political equivalent of the survivors of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, the latter known to history as the high-water mark of the Confederacy. A great swarming, savage last-assault across the political battlefields into the incessant cannon and rifle fire of the American majority. Leaving in the aftermath not only massive Liberal casualties on the battlefield, but inducing a sense of crippling psychological failure among the Liberal survivors, of which at the moment the Occupy Wall Street debacle -- they of the defecating-on-police-cars and rape tents crowd -- is the most vivid example.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
But wasn’t massive importation of slave labor and illegal immigration by the cheese-eating Gauls the reason for the pressure on the average Plebe that the dictators were able to exploit?
Like Bush? Oh the days when we used to lament how with a so-called conservative who was really not, all manner of Liberal claptrap could be passed and sent up and he would sign it.
I love George W. Bush, but he used to piss me off, badly, at times, and I’m not going to defend him when he’s not defensible.
I don’t think GW was any kind of a tyrant, as I think he had absolutely no desire to be. I’m not clear what you’re asking.
I found the “diseased corpse” metaphor downthread to be perhaps more apt. I’ll say one thing about the Romans, they never had to govern 300+ million people.
And as an appropriate aside, compare the level of intelligence and civility in this discussion to the postings you see at the Daily Kos or Democrat Underground. Be well.
compare the level of intelligence and civility in this discussion to the postings you see at the Daily Kos or Democrat Underground.
Now there, is a comparison.
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