And the most overwhelmingly ironic statement goes to… December 17, 2008
Posted by Evil Bender in News and politics, wingnuts.trackback
Bragdon Bowling, anti-Abraham Lincoln crank:
What’s their beef? They view Lincoln as a cynical, self-serving politician with no particular aversion to slavery, who precipitated the Civil War, sorry – the War Against Southern Independence – to keep his Republican party in the White House. “It was all about power,” Bowling observed at an anti-Lincoln rally in Richmond in 2003. “All so Lincoln and his friends could consolidate their power to tell other people how to live their lives.”
Digby’s all over the supreme irony of this:
I always find it fascinating that the people who want to reach into your bedrooms, hospital rooms and wombs, are always upset about some phantom liberal who supposedly wants to tell them how to live. But it seems to be based upon this odd idea that goes all the way back to the civil war that if a fellow American is not in 100% agreement that they are trying to inflict their “values” on others.
Gay marriage is a good example. Nobody says that people must be gay and must marry others of the same sex. But these people simply can’t live and let live. The mere fact that others don’t believe as they do is seen as a threat and they seek to stop it. And they always do it while excoriating the other side for “seeking power.”
And of course, the overwhelming irony of a pro “states rights” hack chastising Lincoln for wanting to “tell other people how to live their lives” is a bit breathtaking. On the irony scale, it ranks even above Karl Rove lecturing President-Elect Obama on being more forthcoming.
But we already knew that for the far right, morality only applies to other people.
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