Comments on: Rich on Conservative Violence https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/23/rich-on-conservative-violence/ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:26:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Coriolis https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/23/rich-on-conservative-violence/#comment-543049 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:26:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/23/rich-on-conservative-violence/#comment-543049 Oh come on MadScientist. For all of McCain’s faults, he did tell the people at his rallies that Obama is not some radical evil arab muslim (of course he did it in a way that any normal arab muslim would find offensive but that’s pretty much the norm). Off the top of my head I can remember only one republican congressman who stood up in these townhall meetings against the loons. If you wanted to look for people who encourage the loonies in the republican party McCain is pretty much the last one you should pick. The guy is a bit of an idiot, and inconsistent, but he does occasionally do the right thing.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/23/rich-on-conservative-violence/#comment-543048 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:17:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/23/rich-on-conservative-violence/#comment-543048 You know who’s missing from the sideshow? John “Two-Face” McCain. Even during his campaign he was pretty weak in addressing the loonies. He ought to be out there swinging the bat and knocking the loonies down, but nooo – the GOP loves the stupid and rabid; they seem to think it’s what they need to win the next election. Fancy that, politicians who encourage stupidity and lunacy. Yeah, I’ll vote for ’em.

]]> By: Dan J https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/23/rich-on-conservative-violence/#comment-543047 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:51:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/23/rich-on-conservative-violence/#comment-543047 This line got me (emphasis mine):

But as we learned in Oklahoma City 14 years ago â?? or at the well-protected Holocaust museum just over two months ago â?? this kind of irrational radicalism has a myriad of targets. And it is impervious to reason.

That’s the scariest part, for me. Being a person who follows facts and evidence to logical conclusions tends to make us think that others should do the same. What do we do when we’re up against the irrational and the unreasonable?

As an atheist, I’m often up against those things to a certain degree. I can vouch for the idea that it’s impossible to reason with some people. It’s scary when those “some people” are out there in rather large numbers, and they’re well armed, and they’re making very thinly veiled (if that) threats of violence.

]]> By: Abstruse https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/23/rich-on-conservative-violence/#comment-543046 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:15:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/23/rich-on-conservative-violence/#comment-543046 I was hoping the iconic “Kennedy moment” of my generation was going to be something spectacular and not something like, well, THE Kennedy moment.

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