You've heard the kids say it. You undoubtedly said it yourself when you were a kid. Children operate by the philosophy that what's theirs is theirs, and what's yours is theirs to. Most people grow out of this to become reasonable and generous adults, but those who don't seem to gravitate to the political extremes where promises of state (read adult...) intervention to redress the puerile view of injustice attracts them like flies to garbage.
Its why--without exception--that every devoted Marxist who comes to power makes the acquisition of a grand residence and a fleet of luxury sedans their first order of business.
I'm not telling you this so we can all feel smug in our moral superiority. Hypocrisy attends us all. However I think it is useful to understand that when it comes right down to it, politics comes down to a conflict between our collective natures and personal dysfunctions.
A case in point is this post from the Daily Kos.
But I have another bone to pick with these leaders that are unable to control their own citizens, provide security within their own countries, and demand US backing and support with both troops and huge amounts of money and materials. Our troops. Troops that die, daily. And, money. Money out of my pocket, and yours.What fantasy allows anyone to posture that civilian deaths during a shooting war are "unjustifiable"? Civilians get caught in the cross fire. Civilians are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Civilians die. Yes, women and children, too. And pets, and farm animals, and rare and endangered species. Anything on a battle ground is in immediate danger of a bloody death.
Michelle Malkin is a Kos kid? Well, no--but its remarkable for one, that a diarist on the DK could write something completely indistinguishable from something Ann Coulter might have said a year or two ago. Perhaps even more remarkable that it would get pass through by the DK censors.
The difference of course is that the rhetorical gun is aimed at the head of the "Dear Leader" instead of evil George W. Bush. What was condemned, must now be defended.
Why was George Bush evil again? Oh yeah--he killed Iraqi civilians, tortured misunderstood terrorists and kept innocent Afghani farmers in indefinite detention at Guantanamo.
Honey, the children are quarreling again...
WELL, AT LEAST HE'S CONSISTENT: The 'other Mick' recalls this dynamic as it applied to Clinton's White House trysts and Jeffrey Toobin's book-length apologetic for risky sexual behavior by the famous and powerful. The married Toobin is being sued for child support by his his mistress
