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Saturday, January 21, 2006
The Illiterate Left
He's a kid. And he's (let's be honest) a smacked ass.
PROGRESSIVES. I looked in on the influential political factotum known as the Daily Kos. I'm told that he and Atrios and other lefty bloggers are responsible for the lefthand spin-out of the Democratic Party. That without the leadership of people like Kos, Kennedy, Biden, Leahy, and company wouldn't have made such outstanding jackasses of themselves during the Alito hearings. Here's what I found when I went looking for the political science of Kos:
In the 1700s Englightenment
thinkers constrained the power of unearned wealth and unmerited
privledge [sic] because they saw it was destroying civil society.
In the process they brought into existence a society where wealth and
privledge [sic] were theoretically to be achievable by people solely
through their own inborn gifts and personal efforts. This altered
the churn of history, bringing more and more people and their otherwise
unlooked-for talents to bear on problems and ideas that would have
never occurred to inbred, drooling royalty.
Where to begin? With the spelling errors? Spell the same word wrong twice in the same paragraph and you're telling us -- what? Right. That you're perfectly equipped to lecture George Will. (Which we have done here by the way. But not this way.) George may be a prig, but he's got an intellect that wasn't fabricated in a video-game chat room.
Uh, yeah. I just got the bulletin about how not being able to spell is only proof of the imperative of the masses to smash the bourgeoisie or something. Something about the ubiquity of spell checkers in the 21st century.Sorry. When you go up against George Will, you better KNOW HOW TO SPELL even if you look like Gilbert Gottfried. (I suspect even Gilbert Gottfried knows how to spell "privilege.")
Moving on. The Enlightenment thinkers didn't "constrain" anything. They began a dialogue in the marketplace of ideas that ultimately invested individuals with the confidence to act on their own behalf. Of course, constraining is a reflexive power of government, not independent thinkers. Perhaps that's what confused "Kos" about the Enlightenment. He never understood that it constituted an act of reclaiming power from government rather than acceding more power to government.
Oh come on. Who are we kidding? Kos is a boy. A not particularly bright or well educated boy. Yeah, he's grown up enough to use his website as a seine for despicable and obscene assaults on Michelle Malkin, but who on earth would ever take him seriously as a leading exponent of ideas for a major political party? He can't write. He can't spell. He conflates hatred with argument and abuse with proof.
Bah. If this is the best the Democrats can do, let them do their worst best. We're ready. Bring it on, all you pitiful little putzes.
