Funniest Thing I’ve Read In A Long Time

by tristero

And you thought Sarah Silverman in The Aristocrats was funny? Get a load of this from conservative Charles W. Dunn:

Conservatism’s strength has always rested in the realm of ideas

I truly wonder if Mr. Dunn understood what he was saying. Y’need to think about it for a minute or two to grok how truly self-damning that quote is. And in so many different ways.

By all means click on the link where you will encounter many more luscious nuggets of conservative thought. “Ideas” like this:

Daniel J. Mahoney argues that Bush’s and the neocons’ “misplaced one-sided emphasis on democracy” — their “democratic monomania” — “marks a break with an older conservative tradition which always insisted that Western liberty draws on intellectual and spiritual resources broader and deeper than that of modern democracy. … The best conservative thinkers of the last two centuries have been wary of unalloyed democracy.”

The reviewer describes this as part of a “dazzling” essay. And so it is, like the size of the pile a constipated dog produces when fed strong laxatives.

Here’s what Mr. Mahoney is saying: The problem with Bush and the neocons (note the distinction) is that they are far too concerned with democracy for their own good. Who knew? And that real conservatives don’t care a tinker’s damn for “unalloyed” democracy. Actually, that I knew.

And then there’s this:

Like the authors in Dunn’s anthology, Anderson, the author of “South Park Conservatives,” shows no interest in partisan gotcha or culture-war hype. He concerns himself with politics in the Aristotelian sense: the study of how people best govern their societies and their souls.

Please, just shoot me in the face. I can’t take any more.