Dicko Cheney's Third and Shining Path
Ideals exist in idealand. Absolutes exist at the edge of reality. Consistency is to be expected from a rock, or a moon, or blue. These are concepts. So when life, or cataclysmic change comes at you don't flinch. Stay there. When it's over, and you're interred in a box they will say, "Wow- he held on to his rigid superstitions and stuff despite overwhelming opposition from reality. Must have been either a crackpot or a genius."
And then they'll look at the callow, shady ways the Dick made his fortune and extended his career long past the natural end of his life. The Undead Veep. They are in the future, so they know there's no deal with no devil. Just a pact among cynical rich industrialists and capital to keep things in the family. One day they'll have it all, and we'll come crawling to them for handouts. So they'll come to the conclusion he had accomplices.
But he's right about moderation. Moderating the absolutism currently bogging down the RNC would only bring it into the American Mainstream, which is to say the extremists will be tall and short, loud and quiet, right and wrong, and ready to face the challenge of a future in the traditionally flexible and somewhat lawless way we do things. We must be patient and persistent. It is dying, and if we don't do anything stupid, it will become as permanently marginalized as Rove's aggrandized permanent majority (=tyranny, 1-party rule, Shining Path).
Why didn't Dan Quayle spout off with his bullshit after being released?
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