tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8150494391278881634.post6292790864191775191..comments2023-11-15T15:11:00.318-05:00Comments on Zandar Versus The Stupid: Last Call For Exceptionally StupidZandarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00396826133150556766noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8150494391278881634.post-20570611983193262402015-07-18T13:00:41.113-04:002015-07-18T13:00:41.113-04:00Proposed headline: "Republicans Propose Imple...Proposed headline: "Republicans Propose Implementing Sharia-Based Law."RepubAnonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8150494391278881634.post-89353429457666335332015-07-17T22:25:37.787-04:002015-07-17T22:25:37.787-04:00they're so awful at legislating that the bill ...<i>they're so awful at legislating that the bill would allow people to claim religious exceptions to break a multitude of laws</i><br /><br />Boy howdy, are they awful at legislating. Not only is it hard God damned work on general principles, beset on all sides by whiners and complainer who will never be satisfied by any conceivable piece of written legislation, but you have to set aside the comforting lies that you can tell yourself when you are the opposition or when you are the junior partner in the coalition. When you are in charge, when you have to make the rain, there is no room for self deception based on a rickety framework built of gossip and fairy tales.<br /><br /> This may be, it seems to me, how the Republicans keep winning elections despite their hideous failures of governance. They have made a strategy of constantly appealing to their constituency, despite the costly screwups that hurt both friend and foe, because this enables them to keep the core ideology untainted.<br /><br />Which, again it seems to me, has become a growing issue for the Sanderistas. It's one thing for Bubble Boy to float on the fringes of a few activist websites: the kossacks can believe any moronic nonsense they like without dropping a single roach. Should the Bern Coalition ever make any real electoral inroads, should they ever get their hands on any real power, they will have to choose which it will be: the power to demand what they want, or continued blessed purity. I don't care which they take, but it has to be one or the other and we would be well advised to guard against the fallout when their own internal factions turn on one another.Horace Boothroyd IIInoreply@blogger.com