re: #76 Lidane

Because they buy into the Fox News bullshit that tax cuts and free markets solve everything, just as Supply Side Jesus teaches us, and if you disagree, you’re a filthy bleeding heart, unpatriotic pinhead, or you’re a RINO who isn’t a “real conservative”.

If the GOP has mastered anything in the last 40+ years, it’s convincing millions of poor and middle class people to keep voting against their own interests. The Tea Party is just more proof of that.

Ah, yes. The People are just too stupid to know that the Good Party is better for them than the Bad Party. Never mind that from time the Good Party lays an egg and needs its wings trimmed.

Consider the Carter years. Inflation ripping along at close to 20%, gas rationing, maintenance neglected in the military to the point that half the copters and jets on a typical aircraft carrier were not service ready.

[And failed when the rescue raid into Iran was attempted.]

All of that is absolutely inexcusable. If the Good Party is to earn the right to lead, it must at a bare minimum tend to business, keep deficit spending in check, keep inflation in check, see to it that the military is not starved, and just generally be a steward.

The voters know a little something about the long term national interest, at least when it comes to mistakes the likes of which have been made time and again, with the same miserable consequences each time. The long term is where we all live, when you take into account that we have families we care about.

The difficulty with AGW is that this is a new mistake. It’s a biggie, but the public hasn’t really caught on yet because the argument that nothing of the sort has ever happened before carries a lot of weight.

Then again, there were always plenty of passenger pigeons, until there weren’t. The argument that something can’t happen if it hasn’t happened before is flawed.