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Saturday, March 08, 2008
Mark Steyn on Dueling Liberal Guilts
I'm still chuckling over Mark Steyn's latest column on the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Here are some excerpts:
"As for victims, you have to feel sorry for John Edwards. He was born in a mill. He weighed 1.6 pounds and what did his dad get? Another day older and deeper in debt. John spent most of his childhood in chains workin’ in the coalmine. He spent most of the 19th century as a spindly seven-year-old sweep with rickets cleaning chimneys in Dickensian London until Fagin spotted him and trained him up as a trial lawyer."
"The Democratic primary season seems to have dwindled down into a psycho remake of Driving Miss Daisy. The fading matriarch Mizz Hill’ry (Jessica Tandy) doesn’t want to give up the keys to the Democratic-party vehicle but the dignified black chauffeur Hokey (Morgan Freeman) insists it’ll be a much smoother ride with him in the driver’s seat, full of gear change you can believe in, etc. Yet, just as he thinks the old biddy’s resigned to a nomination as Best Supporting Actress, the backseat driver plunges her hat pin into his spine, wrests the wheel away and lurches across the median."
"One Historical Guilt gives upscale white liberals a chance to demonstrate their progressive bona fides in unison and with nary a thought. Two Historical Guilts shrivels from transformative feelgood fluffiness into sour tribalism."
Like most of Steyn's work, it manages to be amusing and incisive at the same time. Check it out.
Posted by Terrence Watson on March 8, 2008 | Permalink
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I'd like to believe that when the dust settles, people (read: Lefties and Democrats) will have learned to move past identity politics.
Unfortunately, I suspect that every stereotype about them and their victims will only be reinforced by their inevitable gutter and sewer level campaigns and guerrilla tactics as they proceed on this path and again lose.
Unable to learn from their mistakes of the 20th century (read: socialist failure), they, of course, will only re-double their efforts at blaming rich, white guys for all their troubles. Thus the cycle of violence (read:post-modern deconstruction) being thrust upon the West will start again.
Posted by: h2o273kk9 | 8-Mar-08 1:18:57 PM
A day without Mark Steyn is like a morning without coffee. A daily fix of laughing out loud at the contemptible.
Posted by: John Chittick | 9-Mar-08 12:36:47 PM
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