Posted on 09/16/2006 12:40:28 PM PDT by Dems_R_Losers
In this autumn of their discontent, Republicans tremble as November nears. But now comes yet another book by a gloomy liberal anticipating permanent Republican dominance. Thomas B. Edsall of The New Republic, in "Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power," argues that inexorable social forces, augmented by the conservatives' superior reservoirs of anger, ruthlessness and cynicism -- he neglects only the word "wickedness" -- favor Republicans, "the party of the socially and economically dominant."
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Edsall notes that one-third of American children -- and almost 70 percent of African American children -- are born to unmarried mothers. Then, in an astonishing passage about this phenomenon, which is the cause of most social pathologies, from crime to schools that cannot teach, he explains how Americans differ concerning what he calls "freedom from the need to maintain the marital or procreative bond."
"To social conservatives," he writes, "these developments have signaled an irretrievable and tragic loss. Their reaction has fueled, on the right, a powerful traditionalist movement and a groundswell of support for the Republican Party. To modernists, these developments constitute, at worst, the unfortunate costs of progress, and, at best -- and this is very much the view on the political left as well as of Democratic Party loyalists -- they constitute a triumph over unconscionable obstacles to the liberation and self-realization of much of the human race."
Looking for the real reason for the rise of "Red America"? Read that paragraph again.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The only Blue that matters is Univ of Michigan. GO BLUE! Kick some Irish ASS!
Liberals are sterile. In every way that it is posssible to be sterile. Blue Stater leftists make very few babies, and murder many of the babies they do produce.
Red Staters make most of the children in the USA. Planned Parenthood is killing off enough democrats, so that the US is becoming more red, year by year.
There you go again with that anti-catholic attitude! :)
Why bother preventing bastard births if there is no property to bequeath?
If Will were to die, the average IQ at the Washington Post would drop by about 20 points.
HAHAH! Hey now....it's not as if I typed "Molest some Irish ass." :)
Gotta love that interception.
I sense a mauling by a Wolverine.....unless that's gas from my lunch...we'll see.
More than that!
That'd be fine if they are they weren't being getting my tax dollars.
Agreed, Will does a very good job dissecting the issue.
Bookmarked! Thanks.
And those crayola glasses....! All he needs to do is top is off with a BUTTERFLY TIE...!
Read the entire article. It really is amazing how stupid Edsall is. Will has such an easy task of dissecting him because the guy makes an utter fool of himself and his Dem positions.
Not impressed.
My immediate reaction, as well. Box of rocks stupid.
If this incohert garble is the best their intelligentsia can do, we've nothing to worry about.
Reading the quoted material was like reading a sophomore's term paper -- the assigned topic of which was Spain -- and finding a simplistic discussion of wheat, oats, rice, etc.
It's just senseless tripe -- which misses the point it's intending to identify by a parsec or two.
WRONG!!!! Lets try 50-70 points!!!!
WaPo is the bottom of the bucket.
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