re: #30 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Does anyone else see the irony in the fact that the same groups who are anti-abortion are usually pro death penalty and don’t blink an eye if someone says we should just shoot illegals or engage in “auxiliary law enforcement” against “undesirable elements”?

No. It’s all of a piece, and rather consistent. The idea is to restore the system as it used to be, top to bottom, head to toe. A system in which the borders were more or less closed to illegal immigration, murderers were put to death, and pregnancy meant a shotgun wedding and then by gum a baby.

Those were the good old days, when unemployment never topped 5 percent, except when it did, when people were healthy, except when a polio epidemic came around, when everyone actually got an education, except, well, you know, those people. When doctors knew how to hold your hand and care (because what else could they do?)

Ah, the good old days. They just keep getting better and better. Edit out the considerable fraction of kids with a gimp leg, the shacks along back roads in TX, AR, and LA the likes of which are hardly to be found nowadays in most of what then was called the third world. Edit out the crashes, panics, recessions, depressions, and wars where we lost more men in a bad day than we lose in a bad year now. Spiff those good old days up, and they really shine.