re: #175 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Ideally, government and business would work together, because what is in Detroit, still, is a massive number of experienced industrial workers. They could retrain for, say, carbon nano-tube production, which is one of the few industries we still have a chance at busting out as world leader on. They are one of the absolute necessary technologies for sustainable tech, so they’re green energy research and development. We should pour some money into basic science research on them and subsidize the hell out of some carbon nanotube companies.

But no, we have the GOP, who are a party clutching a sack of horsemeat, certain that the financial apocalypse is coming, and refusing to look to any sort of future for America. They’ve become a goddamn apocalyptic party.

When was the last time you heard anything positive from the GOP?

I would have used the term “doomsday cult,” because that’s basically what they’ve become, a party who’s absolutely certain that the end of America is on the horizon but the “faithful” can be saved if they sell their souls to Rand and chant “Fuck the poor!”