--- Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 18:08 -0700, andie
> nachgeborenen wrote:
> > optimism of the
> > will is a good thing. But pessimism of the mind is
> > really called for.
>
> I think it might be the other way round. The
> conjuncture is hardly
> encouraging -- pessimism of the will is at least
> understandable and
> human. But history is not over -- optimism of the
> mind is called for as
> long as one has a mind to think with.
>
> Perhaps however this is a somewhat sterile
> dichotomy. Whether optimists
> or pessimists, we have to trudge on planting one
> foot in front of the
> other. The only question is where we plant 'em and
> why. Leaving Jenna
> Jameson for even a millisecond to help elect a
> Democrat seems a very
> poor and unfruitful use of a millisecond.
>
> > 1. The Democrats will not go away, wither away,
> > disappear, or otherwise do our work for us if they
> > lose the next election....They will just shift
> further right again,
>
> Indeed. And what will they do if they win? Answer:
> the very same thing!
> Conclusion? Left as an exercise.
>
> > 2. The masses are not quivering on the brink of
> left
> > wing revolution; the people who are organized to
> take
> > advantage of a political vacuum want things that
> you
> > don't even want to think about, theocracy --
> > "dominion"
>
> Really, we need something a little more nuanced
> here. "The masses?" Who
> dat? And yeah, the dominion types are motivated and
> committed, but not
> really all that numerous. They're a chimaera
> bombinans in vacuo -- and
> the void is, very greatly, of the Democrats'
> creation.
>
>
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