tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8150494391278881634.post9164860927223156709..comments2023-11-15T15:11:00.318-05:00Comments on Zandar Versus The Stupid: Last Call For 20 Years LaterZandarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00396826133150556766noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8150494391278881634.post-83804290767075158632015-04-20T23:28:56.778-04:002015-04-20T23:28:56.778-04:00You are really on to something here. Back in 1992...You are really on to something here. Back in 1992 I read disturbing little book, "Armed and Dangerous," that detailed the thirty year spree of right wing terrorists all across the West - shooting deputies in the name of sovereignty and robbing banks to fund it all. Oddly enough the book doesn't seem to be available on the internet and I no longer have access to that library from so long ago. Twenty five years later the pace of right wing terror has only picked up - Oklahoma City was no surprise to me, after some years living in Utah, just as Cliven Bundy was merely the latest in a long line of heavily armed ideologues. People ask about Waco and Ruby Ridge "why were the police so heavily armed when the went in?" and the answer quite obviously is policemen have been gunned down time and time again by these guys. The general population has no idea, passing off each incident as just some random dude, while the professionals have a very good idea of just how murderous these guys are.<br /><br />And the worst of it is how their ideology has spilled over into the mainstream of the Republican Party. Their boys get elected Senate Majority Leader, while we leftists are forced to caucus in the Senate Broom Closet. So it is double frustrating that this very day the irrelevant hand jobs of the Daily Kos are holding one of their periodic screams, in which they discuss the myriad ways in which the Democrats are worse than the Republicans. I fear for the health of my old friend Words in Action, or Unicorn Boy as I call him, for I swear if he says the word Neoliberal one more time he is going to stroke out and fall right over. So for 2016 I have largely written those guys off already, for they will spend the next eighteen months on some bizarre purity driven troll hunt.<br /><br />Which leaves the question, where exactly are we going to find the votes to defeat the hated Republicans? That is a mystery, one that I fear has no resolution. As horrible as Republican control of all branches to the Federal government will be, that may actually turn out to be our doom.Horace Boothroyd IIInoreply@blogger.com