Comments on: Anti-Labor Day

By: reginahny

reginahny — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:08:00 +0000

In reply to JozefAL. ...and Compassionate Conservatism.

By: Good Doc

Good Doc — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:15:00 +0000

In reply to IrishGrrrl. Thank YOU! ;-)

By: IrishGrrrl

IrishGrrrl — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:23:00 +0000

In reply to Good Doc.

I am not sure the uncapitalized “you” conveys the right amount off disdain…make it “YOU people” and your summation is perfect. And you’re welcome, Doc.

By: JozefAL

JozefAL — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 01:52:00 +0000

@Doran: Well, once Ayn Rand’s anti-religion position became so publicized, it was hard for the GOPers who loved her laissez-faire/fuck-the-worker capitalist stance to feel the same way about her on the whole. (Sort of the same way it’s a bit tough to feel any enthusiasm for any Clint Eastwood project–new OR old–following his little stand-up bit for the GOP.)

As for the GOP’s embrace of Orwell, that began a long time ago–around the time that the Reagan administration wanted to classify ketchup and relish as “vegetables” for school lunches and sold the idea that crack cocaine was inherently worse than the powder variety. Oh, and that “anti-Communist guerrillas who murdered nuns and priests” were “freedom fighters who deserve American support.” And that Cubans fleeing a Communist dictatorship were “political refugees” while Salvadorans and Guatemalans fleeing right-wing military dictatorships were “economic refugees.”

By: Doran

Doran — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:35:00 +0000

Clearly it’s not Ayn Rand, but George Orwell who the GOP has embraced.

By: Good Doc

Good Doc — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:30:00 +0000

Or as known by Republicans, It’s “Celebrate Risk-Taking Masters of the Universe, by God, we are awesome, bow down to us, you people” Day!