So, yes, there are reasons to be suspicious of government, and yes, our yearning to be “masterless” has created a culture that sends adventurers on the open road and pioneers looking for the next frontier. But it’s also making it increasingly difficult for government to function.
I’m not unsympathetic to the argument that vigilance — protest, activism, anger — is the price of freedom. But with the national government in gridlock, I’m beginning to worry that our “don’t tread on me” birthright has a deeper and darker cost.
Have you considered that Americans have always been like this — you admit it in your column, Mr. Rodriguez.
Maybe the problem is that Americans just don’t want the agenda government is pushing right now, and maybe the leader of this government activism is a guy with no real experience despite two autobiographies, no skills anyone would pay him for in the real world, and who isn’t really half as smart as your side tells itself. Ever consider that, chief?
I mean, you weren’t complaining about this before January 2009, were you?
Freedom is the legacy of the Indo-European (dare we say Aryan?) people.
Asiatic mongoloids, including Mestizo half-castes like Mr. Rodriguez, instinctively yearn for a despot whose hand they can lick.
Yeah, when I think “Aryan” the first thing that comes to mind is freedom.
And I never think of despots with stupid mustaches.
/sarcasm
Mr. Garrison, I suppose you cannot be condemned for failing to overcome the deficiencies of the institutionalized indoctrination you call an education system, or the mind-warping propaganda of popular culture.
You reflexively respond as you’ve been conditioned; you are, after all, only human.
I find it revealing that you consider “only human” an inherent design flaw.
Oooh lucky you Trey, some Neanderthal, knuckle dragger has found your site.
Some genetic throwback who has bought the flawed logic of racial hate hook line and sinker but believes that you have been brainwashed. Don’t even bother debating slime like this. Surely as admin you can just delete the comment.
Even Anonymous at least occasionally has a point, but Hitlerlite here is not going to add anything to the discussion.
Back on Topic, i did find it refreshing that even in a CA publication the comments section , at least the first 25 replies, were about 10 to 1 against Mr Rodriguez.
In any case, Rodriguez’s putative allies would not shrink from the thought of using murder, seizure of land and property, and rampant totalitarianism to impose their ends, as they did in Russia during and subsequent to the so-called Bolshevik revolution.
Surely every dedicated leftist must fondly reminisce about the Cheka and their East German Stasi counterparts? The ends justify the means!
Materialism converges on despotism, which is of course acceptable to he who becomes the despot, but what of all the useful idiots who believed in materialism masked as spiritualism? Liquidation, perhaps?
How does it feel to find yourself on the same side of an argument with a wingnut kind of a guy?
“I mean, you weren’t complaining about this before January 2009, were you?”
The same question I’ve been asking you and the other newly-minted ‘libertarian’ outrageaholics, Trey. Where was all this indignation about Big Government (from right of center) when Bush was fighting two wars off budget!, wiretapping the universe and spending like a drunken sailor?
Funny how the ‘libertarians’ came out of the closet when a dark-skinned man took the White House. The evidence shows that libertarians and Tea Partiers don’t care about deficit spending until the deficit spending is for something they don’t want.
“How does it feel to find yourself on the same side of an argument with a wingnut kind of a guy?”
Did you go to law school in Panama, Tim?
You’re still a vegetarian, right? You know who else was a vegetarian and made Jewish people wear flair.
“Where was all this indignation about Big Government (from right of center) when Bush was fighting two wars off budget!, wiretapping the universe and spending like a drunken sailor?”
I’ve been bitching about Bush for eight years longer than I bitched about Interim President Barack Obama.
It’s telling that you’re so fixated on the current resident’s skin color. What is it with you racists?
I’m not Anonymous
I know, Tim. Didn’t mean to suggest that. There are several anonymii — they don’t have the balls to put their name to their posts like you do.
I was just killing two posts with one comment. Sorry for the confusion.
That’s fine. You know I like to razz you on occasion
What about in the South Sea tropic zones, where the dusky beauties do the hula dance? Now that’s freedom Jim! What, just doesn’t appeal to you without a factory or a “corporate campus” on the horizon?
Fine, then, more dusky beauties for me.
(harp music — GAUGI — er, DANIEL’s eyes grow heavy as scene blurs and fades — next shot is a close-up of a grass skirt and man it’s just a-wigglin’)
I wish you could gain more than just a person’s courage by eating their heart.
Because Daniel would be first on my dining list so that I could steal his wit.
But all seriousness aside, whenever I hear the word “zionism” crop up I think about what a friend said one time.
“It’s not that I’m averse to believing that there may be some ancient, nefarious religious cabal that controls banking, the media, and the seats of world power. It’s just that I find it hard to believe the only people who can discern it are a bunch of mouth-breathing, goose-stepping, tooth-challenged yobs whose high water marks in life were scoring 1) a passing grade on a GED and 2) with their first cousin.”
IJS.
Shimon Peres agree’s!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL4Cu-K17vE
“It’s telling that you’re so fixated on the current resident’s skin color.”
It should be “telling” you about about all the racist jokes coming out of the Tea Party dimbulbs you’ve aligned yourself with.