sloth

[Doug Henwood]

I'll stop with this toxic crap soon, I promise. But I was just paging
through the repellent Independent Women's Forum newsletter, Ex Femina. (The
IWF is a group of professional anti-feminist women that was founded to
defend Clarence Thomas.) In it, Midge Decter is quoted as saying: "The
other way to the public heart is to provide us with excuses for our
failings. That is Bill Clinton. He is the true embodiment of the state of
our culture. His being in the White House provides the electorate with a
blanket forgiveness for their own moral and cultural sloth."

As someone pointed out somewhere, ravers like this used to denounce the
immoralism of the pointy-heads and embrace the moral wisdom of The People.
Now that it's clear that The People can't stand their moralizing, it's
proof that The People are corrupt.

Doug