Ravings of a Right Wing Nut Job
It is not all bad news after this introduction - Swiftee has announced he's moved to South Carolina. "Just so happens I live in South Carolina."
See the excellent piece in the New York Review of Books by Gary Wills : "Dumb America""
See the excellent piece in the New York Review of Books by Gary Wills : "Dumb America""
...the current South is willing to cut off its own nose to show contempt for the government.
People across the South are going even farther than Scott, begging to secede again from the Union. Packer notes that the tea is cooling in parties across the rest of the nation, but seems to be fermenting to a more toxic brew in the South.
No one needs better health care more than the South, but it fights it off so long as Obama is offering it, its governors turning down funds for Medicaid.
This is a region that rejects sex education, though its rate of teenage pregnancies is double and in places triple that of New England. It fights federal help with education, preferring to inoculate its children against science by denying evolution.
No part of the country will suffer the effects of global warming earlier or with more devastation than the South, yet its politicians resist measures to curb carbon emissions and deny the very existence of climate change—sending it to the dungeon with evolution and biblical errancy.
One doesn’t need much imagination to see the South with lowered or swollen waters in its rivers and ports, raging kudzu, swarming mosquitos, and record-breaking high temperatures, still telling itself that global-warming talk is just a liberal conspiracy. But it just digs deeper in denial. The South has decided to be defeated and dumb.
This is the thing that makes the South the distillation point for all the fugitive extremisms of our time, the heart of Say-No Republicanism, the home of lost causes and nostalgic lunacy. It is as if the whole continent were tipped upward, so that the scattered crazinesses might slide down to the bottom. The South has often been defeated. Now it is defeating itself.And Mr. Thomas Swiftee Swift has slid down to the bottom to aid The South with his fugitive extremism and lunacy.
Pretty sick collection of comments. Less than a month but enough to give an insight into a twisted and sick mind. And there is plenty more where this comes from.
Thomas Swiftee Swift will fit in well in his new home in The South.