Your Tears Sustain Zandar

The Sadly, No! crew have a great rundown of the gnashing of teeth and the lamentations of the women coming from the Wingers this morning as they Kubler-Ross their way through the five stages of grief, mourning the death of their actual relevancy to American government.

My fav?  Bill Kristol quoting Karl Marx, thus polluting the minds of readers with Marxism forever.

After his 1851 coup d’état, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the real Napoleon, pronounced himself Napoleon III. It was the rise to power of this great-man-wannabe that prompted the famous opening of Karl Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis-Bonaparte: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”

The decade of the 1960s—the first appearance in full flower of modern American liberalism—was in many respects a tragedy. It was certainly a tragedy for American liberalism, which liberated itself from its previous (at least partial) mooring in common sense and the American tradition. It was to some degree also a tragedy for America. It took conservative politicians and policies decades to undo the damage of Great Society hubris, post-Vietnam weakness, and ’60s cultural foolishness. Much wreckage still remains.

Like an African-American in the White House, amirite, Bill?

Your tears give me more hit points, Wingers.