–Serious Proposals

Every promising post has been taken back, essentially, by other folk- first someone saying Garrison Keillor’s sneering, wink-wink ‘joke’ about taking away (rightward-leaning) Christian rights to vote *was* funny and appropriate (and you unsophisticated righty rubes just can’t appreciate his deep and harmless humor without explanation), to other people saying “we don’t need Roe, we just need a constitutional amendment that codifies Roe into law” (as if that’s some sort of great compromise, negating the point of the post that trying to keep the 5% fringe by keeping Roe is fueling the social conservatives and leading to the repeal of large parts of the 95% that majorities do favor), to other posts that essentially say “you religious conservatives are stupid” and “we’re not saying we’re against prayer in school, we’re just against prayer in school- don’t you get that big difference??”

The blog so far has boiled down to the usual caricature of peasant rubes (a literal analogy used; lefties are royalty who don’t care that the peasants spit when they go by, but Righties are peasants whose feelings are hurt when the Royal Left holds its nose when passing) who need to be condescended to, to understand the Higher Truth of teh Left- which, unsurprisingly, is anti-clerical, anti-religious, technocratic-elitist-at-best [authoritarian socialist at worse], and nanny-statist, with an explicit goal of engineering out all the yucky/icky righty/red-state folkways in favor of uniform ‘cosmopolitanism’.

Will, I’m a bit surprised given your position post-election that explicitly rejected the condescending lefty view to red-staters that you haven’t had the same reaction as I to 75% of the posts that are currently up. I see better social commentary & respect for righties from the guys at CT and most of them are unapologetic socialists.