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Dear Notophthalmus viridescens:
Dec. 18th, 2011 08:16 pmYou're not the Newt I'm rooting for.
I want Mr. Gingrich to win the Republican nomination because he's a walking disaster and the perfect personification of the worst that his party represents. Conservatism, or what passes for it in American politics, must be utterly discredited if America is to survive as anything like the country I grew up in, and the best way to do that is to put the nuttiest person possible at the top of the Republican ticket.
The danger, of course, is that he might win the election. But he's less likely than Mitt Romney to beat President Obama, I think.
There's part of me that wonders whether if the nutters got full control of the government again, they might so completely discredit capitalism as to hasten the coming of socialism in America. They've already done an excellent job of undermining public confidence in most of the institutions that support it.
Another part of me remembers that Americans have never known fascism, except for my father's generation that fought it in World War II. The death-throes of capitalism could get very ugly.
I want Mr. Gingrich to win the Republican nomination because he's a walking disaster and the perfect personification of the worst that his party represents. Conservatism, or what passes for it in American politics, must be utterly discredited if America is to survive as anything like the country I grew up in, and the best way to do that is to put the nuttiest person possible at the top of the Republican ticket.
The danger, of course, is that he might win the election. But he's less likely than Mitt Romney to beat President Obama, I think.
There's part of me that wonders whether if the nutters got full control of the government again, they might so completely discredit capitalism as to hasten the coming of socialism in America. They've already done an excellent job of undermining public confidence in most of the institutions that support it.
Another part of me remembers that Americans have never known fascism, except for my father's generation that fought it in World War II. The death-throes of capitalism could get very ugly.
