Brain Fertilizer

I'm pointing to his thoughts on the Nutty wing of the Democrat Party.

It’s sad, really, to learn how much the Dem partisans hate America. Oh, sure, they say they love it, but they don’t. What they love is some idealized version of it, where there is no poverty, everybody has free medical care, the general public rejects the hateful politics of the Right, and the UN has become our kind and benevolent overlord. Oh, sure, they love that America. They’d be willing to sacrifice practically anything for it. Just the thought of that America can bring a lump to their throats and tears to their eyes. There’s only one problem: that America doesn’t exist. What they have is the real America, where a majority of the people doesn’t agree with them on practically anything, and where they never can quite achieve enough political power to implement their preferred policies. That’s America as she really is, and that’s the America they hate.

Still, there’s a creepy fascination at reading their little screeds decrying their fellow citizens as being either banjo-strumming Deliverance kids, or goose-stepping fascists squareheads, simply because they don’t happen to agree with the "progressive" line. There’s a powerful lot of both hatred and elitism in that formulation, and it’s not just creepy, it’s sad.