Whatever a theologian feels to be true must be false: this is almost a criterion of truth. His most basic instinct of self-preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in. — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, §9
This latest craziness from David Kupelian, managing ‘editor’ of World Net Daily, put me in mind of that famous passage from Nietzsche.
“Utopia is what we had before they came along,” he [Kupelian] said of liberals. “America was the most wonderful, wealthy, there was more happiness per capita and more opportunity in America than any nation in history, they want to take that and fundamentally transform it. Those guys are the sick ones.”
Wiles had his own thoughts on the matter: “I believe, David, the reason they’re going insane is that God has turned them over to a reprobate mind.”
“I believe that too,” Kupelian said, before saying that he really just wants to bring Americans together.
But, of course, in Kupelian’s Utopia women had no rights, blacks were oppressed by the Jim Crow laws, and children raped by their pastors had even less recourse than today. Not that they are thinking of any of those things. No. What they are actually thinking about, and miss, is the union-wrought pseudo-industrial socialism that spread the wealth around and kept the economy energetic — the very economic policies that the Teavangelicals and other oddities of the Loony Right have worked for so long to upend. These ignoramuses are reacting against their own successes.
Be careful what you wish for, you might get it. — Anonymous