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Liberating Liberals
forgive them, for they know not what they do.”12 That statement is one of the tools that liberals can use to escape guilt. Thank you Jesus!
Not good enough. It’ll be very hard to forgive ourselves if humanity destroys civilization by nukes, poisonous waste, or excessive consumption. And with Freud, Rachel Carson, Einstein, etc. we’re beginning to “know what we do.” We need new guilt medicines to lessen such horrific feelings.
And worse, conservatives often don’t feel this guilt. Their religious fundamentalists count on God to save the day. If God doesn’t, time to rapture up, out of sight and mind. It is a 1st century religion.
Meanwhile, conservative economic fundamentalists count on the invisible hand of the market to solve all problems. This appendage is some kind of economic god masquerading as science. The good get rich and the bad get poor. Of course there are hundreds of highly complex economic equations proving that supply-side spending’s elasticity multiplier effect will maximize the production and depreciation of short-selling derivatives. It’s not the first time millions of hours of human labor were spent rationalizing what is in great part superstition.
If their fundamentalist economics doesn’t work, conservatives envision road-warrior Mel Gibson fighting for post-apocalyptic barrels of oil at 80 mph as about the best we can expect. Or its contemporary counterpart: Hole up in a gated community, build your
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