tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post3373727239185548623..comments2024-03-11T13:16:19.098-04:00Comments on Ad Orientem: The Blue Ripple; some thoughts on the electionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-16838679336518701502020-11-12T20:23:44.215-05:002020-11-12T20:23:44.215-05:00Yup, so much for the Blue Wave ... I'm going w...Yup, so much for the Blue Wave ... I'm going with the Blue Drip or the Blue Piddle. <br />David https://www.blogger.com/profile/09728364431363413760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-67557987233904488792020-11-06T08:23:47.684-05:002020-11-06T08:23:47.684-05:00When America was great ... we were an apartheid st...<i> When America was great ... we were an apartheid state.</i><br /><br />Racist. I'm calling Homeland Security.The Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-6710609669652440732020-11-05T22:28:57.091-05:002020-11-05T22:28:57.091-05:00You aren't interested in governing if your ide...You aren't interested in governing if your ideology assumes government is never the answer, taxes are theft, etc. "Many parts of sub-Saharan Africa are a libertarian's paradise" - and there is a direct correlation between the rise of the the small government, anti-tax, anti-regulation, anti-consumer conservative movement in the 70s and 80s and the complaints of Trump voters yearning for a yesteryear the pied piper culture war politicians they elect have destroyed. When America was great Johnson, Kennedy and a RINO (by today's standard) like Eisenhower were in the White House, tax rates were sky high, labor unions were powerful, and the churches were full with no female clergy. Admittedly, the DMV was still terrible and we were an apartheid state.123https://www.blogger.com/profile/12396302238693153833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-68778188339969006722020-11-05T14:48:17.042-05:002020-11-05T14:48:17.042-05:00FINALLY, under a (possible/likely?) Harris/Biden p...FINALLY, under a (possible/likely?) Harris/Biden presidency, the muted, shrinking Republican Congress can get back to its important work of partisan sniping, speechifying, investigating, and getting re-elected.<br /><br />Because manifestly, the only thing Republicans are really good for is Newman's notional assent--ideological preening--and the last thing they actually want to do is govern.The Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.com