Anatomy of Liberal Outrage

I mean, present company excepted, I basically despise all white male heterosexuals, and so the 50% of the Republican Party that doesn't spend its weekends sucking cock behind a tree in Rock Creek Park or slipping its dick under the stall wall in some Midwestern commuter airport is in general an object of distaste to me, but Jesus Christ, I fucking despise Democrats and soi-disant progressives most of fucking all. I mean, yea, let us cast our minds back to the early aughts, when Digby and the Gang were practically sobbing at the Unfairness every time some Republican derided a liberal's milquetoast plea that we all explore the roots of terrorism. After all, aside from their generally pathetic aspect, the Progs--those few who dared, anyway--were right on this point. It is possible to condemn murderous political violence even while admitting and seeking to identify its origins in legitimate grievance. So like, it sucks that Osama bin Laden blew up America, but at the same time, America should probably stop fucking up so many other countries, especially in the Muslim world.

But now the shoe is on the other foot and the usual suspects are caterwauling that Republicans Support Terror! because a few GOP types were all like, "Well, the dude who flew the plane into the building was nuts and murder is bad, but obviously if our system of government is sending nuts over edge like this, we should, you know, maybe like, do something differently."

Look. I am dismissive of White-Guy Rage. I am sorry that the fags and the blacks and hot, thick, uncut Latinos are taking over your country, guys, really, I am, but what can you do? Demography is destiny. Somehow--and I admit that this is a bit of a paradox--the queers have figured out how to out-reproduce you fellas as surely as the Palestinians have figured out how to out-reproduce the Jews and the banlieux have figured out how to out-reproduce Paris. That having been said, I do not think you can really deny that the IRS and the government as a whole is "an organization entirely devoted to strongarm robbery, top to bottom, soup to nuts, boss to janitor." And whether you, like Good Professor Sartwell, object to the use of your money in funding the world's preeminent wardeath machine or you object to the use of your money to feed imaginary inner city crack faggot Kenyanites, a fundamental truth remains: our government is a huge, implacable, rapacious, imovable death god into whose insatiable maw we are damned to make perpetual sacrifice. It is not unusual that this is going to raise some hackles. And perhaps Digby and the Gang, instead of screaming "Terrorist!" at every whacko with a gun or a pilot's license, might instead seek to understand what it is about America today that would impel a man to murder.