Andrew Sullivan's take on today's Repub party - they are anachists not conservatives

[housewolf]

Worth the read, no matter what you think of Sully

America's Cold Civil War

22 Jul 2011 08:14 PM
America's Cold Civil War

The Republican refusal to countenance any way to raise revenues to tackle the massive debt incurred largely on their watch and from a recession which started under Obama's predecessor makes one thing clear. They are not a political party in government; they are a radical faction that refuses to participate meaningfully in the give and take the Founders firmly believed should be at the center of American government. They are not conservatives in this sense. They are anarchists.

Their fiscal anarchism has now led to their threat to destabilize and possibly upend the American and global economy because they refuse to compromise an inch. They control only one part of the government, and yet they hold all of it hostage.

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http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/07/americas-cold-civil-war.html

[KittyWampus]

1. That was interesting. Financial Anarchists. Rings true.

[PA Democrat]

2. Economic terrorists.

Willing to cause economic devastation to achieve political power.

[Luminous Animal]

3. Nope. They are radical oligarchal reactionaries. Sullivan reveals his ignorance of anarchism.

Or, at the very least, he's bought into the MSM S-C-A-R-R-Y characterization of activism fueled by COINTELPRO "activists" actions.

[reformist2]

7. This.

I'm surprised at Andrew. He's usually smarter than that.

[sudopod]

4. What did the Anarchists ever do to him? nt

[DFW]

5. FINALLY someone figures it out

CNN calls them "conservatives," but we are NOT dealing with conservatives, but rather wild-eyed extremists
who follow no specific political philosophy other than "I got mine, you fuck off." Man, in other words, should
cease to be a social animal. Indeed: anarchists.

[emulatorloo]

6. Thanks. Rec n/t