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acroyearMore on Mainstreaming Crazy : Mike the Mad Biologist:
The tree of crazy is an ever-present aspect of America's flora. Only now, it's being watered by misguided he-said-she-said reporting and taking over the forest. Latest word is that the enlightened and mild provision in the draft legislation to help elderly people who want living wills -- the one hysterics turned into the "death panel" canard -- is losing favor, according to the Wall Street Journal, because of "complaints over the provision."I think the last sentence is key--and the example is what I've called the Cumbaya Fallacy. That is, there is this ridiculous revisionist idea that suddenly everyone decided that segregation was wrong, held hands, and sang Cumbaya. In fact, desegregation was rammed down the throat of the South (and, to a lesser extent, other regions).
Good thing our leaders weren't so cowardly in 1964, or we would never have passed a civil rights bill -- because of complaints over the provisions in it that would enslave whites.
The people who are birthers, deathers, global warming denialists, and creationists do not rethink and reconsider, they regroup and rearm. We defeat them by ignoring them and getting done what has to be done, not by taking their 'ideas' seriously.
