The Republican Pledge Fetish

[waronignorance]

Conservatives abhor the passage of time or the emergence of novelty—anything that requires movement from now and here and likeness of character. Conservatism is more aversion than ideology; conservatives are not for nearly as much as they’re against because there are many more ways to be different from them than to be their kin.

Conservatives need pledges to assuage their distrust—of others and of themselves. They do not trust others to be truthful and faithful; and they don’t trust themselves to be truthful and faithful unless bound by some remote article to be so. And the politicians who sign these pledges need to be reminded what they must purport to believe even if they don’t ...

Full Article:

http://beeryblog.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/the-republican-pledge-fetish/

[ladjf]

1. This is temperance league crap. Far too many Americans are

buying this lunacy. The result is that we are plunging headlong into a NeoFeudalism.

[Myrina]

2. Mob Mentality, a need - and a way - to exclude (and therefore shit on) "Other"

Echoes of Seig Heil, anyone? :scared: :hide:

[Obamanaut]

3. Are you simply posting articles from your blog, with links to that blog, and then

engaging in no further discussion?

[KamaAina]

4. The "No Tax Pledge"

If I went to my Democratic assemblymember and waved a "No Cuts Pledge" in his face, pledging him to never, ever vote to cut the budget for any reason, he'd laugh in my face. And rightly so. He'd be signing away his ability to legislate effectively.

Repukes don't seem to have a problem witrh that. :eyes: