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2012 Elections Part I: All Politics is Yokel

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Foxton said:
Honestly I kind of want her to win just to see how horrible things can become.
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Bob Gray said:
Oh heavens, she's interested in Francis Schaeffer, a widely well-regarded Christian thinker of the mid to late 20th century. Could the country survive electing one of those Christians!:eek:
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Jumping to conclusions, again. Lemme help you out.

I was actually being quite serious: particularly for those of us who aren't wild about Modernity, that line of thought is interesting, and very fruitful. The world is too much with us, and plenty of us understand the worship of a stripped-down rationalism (and its natural reductio ad absurdum, the reduction of all of life to a soulless search for profit) was a withering of the human spirit.

Couple things, though. The marriage of that idea to religious fundamentalism of Bachmann's sort is the equivalent of trying to fit a description of Thomas Aquinas into a first grade reader. And more to the point, Bachmann's worship of the Founders is a perfect repudiation of these (I'm sure, completely misunderstood) ideas. The Founders, and the ideological origins of the American Revolution, were the political pinnacle of the Enlightenment. For her to allude to a Christian distrust of the Renaissance in one breath and then fawn all over Adams and Jefferson in the next is a contradiction and the definition of irony.

If you want to read a great book about the world view that has been lost, by the way, I highly recommend C. S. Lewis' The Discarded Image. It's one of the most beautiful and deep books I've ever had the pleasure of reading. It's the real thing: not some catch-phrase a thumper picked up to gild her ignorance with a patina of intellectual sophistry.
 
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Kepler said:
I love Colbert, but I think both those ads are really lame.
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Haven't seen the 2nd one yet (it's supposed to air tonight here in Iowa), but the first one is great. Some of the spliced in images are very apropos - the sheep, the stripper pole, "Americans for a better tomorrow, tomorrow."
 
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unofan said:
Haven't seen the 2nd one yet (it's supposed to air tonight here in Iowa), but the first one is great. Some of the spliced in images are very apropos - the sheep, the stripper pole, "Americans for a better tomorrow, tomorrow."
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2nd one is up on the site I linked below. And I agree, the ad is prety neat in its subtlety.

Romney defended Corps as people today on the stump. Awesome.
 
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