This election year, the country is analogous to Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11.
“This country is the equivalent of that plane right now,” Bauer said, citing a recent column posted on the Claremont Institute website. “We’re heading for a disaster unless we can get control of the cockpit again and then maybe, just maybe, we’ll have a chance.”
The passengers on that plane “took the only shot they had,” Bauer stated. “Ladies and gentlemen, this is a Flight 93 election. This may be our last shot. It’s time to roll. It’s time to run down the aisle and save Western civilization.”
The tastelessness of the analogy is breathtaking. Is there nothing these cynics won’t try to exploit?
There is only one good thing about this election year: Only stupidity or plain-vanilla blindness can obscure the malice, the ignorance, the grasping predation of the evangelical right and their cohorts on the lunatic fringe. These people simply are not part of the decent, educated world, and deserve nothing but contempt.