{"id":2718,"date":"2002-12-11T20:16:48","date_gmt":"2002-12-11T20:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2002-12-11T20:16:48","modified_gmt":"2002-12-11T20:16:48","slug":"gosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2718","title":{"rendered":"GOSH"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes it just doesn\u0092t pay to be nice.
\nBut actually it does, because you get to sleep at night in the warm comfort of a good conscience. And even better, sometimes people go out of their way to make a point for you.
\nI\u0092ve talked in the past about the \u0091liberalista\u0092 (I\u0092m looking for a word for the high-profile liberals who I believe have hijacked the leadership of the liberal movement and the Democratic Party\u0085that will do until I come up with something better) attitudes, and the underlying position of obnoxious superiority.
\nAvedon Carol<\/a> posted a couple of times a response to my MESS OF CRACKPOTTAGE post below; I noticed that there were multiples, and that she had clarified her point and wasn\u0092t trying to link me to Ann Coulter (ick), and thanked her.
\nI was too quick on the \u0091send\u0092, because this is the email that crossed mine:<\/p>\n

I tried to post a response in your comments (twice) but they don’t appear to have gone through. I said something like this:
\n———-
\nMy post wasn’t about yours – everything I had to say about that I said in my original comments to you. MY post was about Tom Scott appearing to believe that if Alec Baldwin says something stupid, it means Ann Coulter is not a crackpot. I posted the full exchange because I wanted to make it obvious what a non-sequitur his response was to mine.
\nOh, yeah, and while “our” crackpots are a few scattered individuals in the entertainment industry, the Republicans elect theirs – not just to Congress, but even to Senate Minority\/Majority Leader status.<\/b>
\n———-
\nBTW, if the kind of support I was getting for my writing was of the caliber of the comments you got to this post, I’d definitely ask myself what I was doing wrong.<\/b>
\nAvedon
\n(emphasis added)<\/I><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gosh, there are so many things to talk about here\u0085
\n\u0085the first is that my team, the Democrats does in fact elect fools as well.
\nCynthia McKinney, anyone?
\n\u0085the second is that marvelously perfect tone of self-righteousness in the last paragraph.<\/b>
\nSee, here\u0092s the deal. I\u0092m a liberal because I respect pretty much everyone. I was taught this by my father, who was always as polite and respectful to the poor and low as he was to the rich and powerful (in fact, maybe a bit more so). I think that the poor and powerless are typically pretty good human beings who are on the wrong side of circumstance, and that part of the job of government is to make that condition bearable, and to make sure that it isn\u0092t structural\u0085that you\u0092re not on the wrong side of circumstance because your parents were, or because of your color or sex. That way their kids will have a chance at living in big houses and spoiling their children into insensibility like I do.
\nBut at root, it comes from a feeling that the least of us are as human and worthy of dignity as the best.
\nBut somehow, we have managed to raise an intellectual class who believe in liberalism in no small part because it allows them to feel superior to others.
\nI think Avedon has pretty much declared on which side of that divide she stands.
\n(Embarrassingly forgot basic blog etiquette and link to the blog discussed. Corrected.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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