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"Harry Hope" |
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29 Jul 2005 02:28:13 PM |
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The Frightened World of GOP Poster Boy, Rectum Santorum |
http://counterbias.com/356.html
July 28 2005
The Frightened World of Rick Santorum
Poor Rick.
Everywhere he looks he sees insidious forces plotting to destroy
families and replace them with... the government
By Steve Horowitz
Paranoiac Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum has been making the
rounds, promoting his just-published screed, "It Takes a Family:
Conservatism and the Common Good."
I've seen him on "The Daily Show," where Jon Stewart tried to pin him
down -- but failed -- on whether two guys getting married really poses
such a threat to the Republic, and, tonight, on "Hardball," where
Chris Matthews tossed softballs worthy of Santorum's publisher's
publicist.
This is a book you can judge by its cover:
It looks like a church window (Santorum adheres to a strict style of
Catholicsm), with a stained glass design approximating a cross and a
'50s style illustration of a nuclear family at its center.
The premise of the book, as described by the Washington Post, is that
"the family unit, rather than the federal government, that should make
up the foundation of a fair society."
What an astonishing idea.
But so goes the Republican's fear campaign.
They work day and night trying to convince Americans that
a.) the family is under attack by insidious liberal-minded forces;
b.) Christianity is under attack by insidious liberal-minded forces;
and
c.) government is bad.
Their anxiety seems to stem from the fact that not all Americans agree
with them all the time.
Sure, we've handed Republicans the keys to all three branches of
government (which has grown explosively under their anti-government
leadership), but this has done nothing to assuage them.
As long as there are gay people who long for recognition of their
committed relationships, as long as there are women who wish not to
bear children, their way of life is threatened.
And they deeply believe that their way of life should be everyone's.
That way of life, by the way, should seem vaguely familiar -- you've
seen it on TV.
As Rick said in a Washington Post-sponsored online chat:
"Growing up in the 1950's and 1960's was far different from growing up
in this decade. The culture, the neighborhoods, the values that were
being fed through the popular culture and the educational
establishments were far different from now. The world was different
and far more nurturing to families. Can you imagine a show today
entitled Father Knows Best?"
Never mind that the Father in "Father Knows Best" was an alcoholic who
tried to kill himself in his garage.
Or that the girl who played the younger daughter became a heroin
addict.
Conservatives want to return us to those thrilling days of a
values-filled yesteryear that never existed, when men were wise, women
cooked and cleaned in pearls, mental illness and drug abuse were never
discussed and blacks knew their place.
Or got lynched.
The good old days.
Sen. Rick, when he's not watching Nick at Night, is deeply fearful of
working women.
He says that two-parent families with mom staying at home offers kids
the best chance of a healthy upbringing.
He may be right.
But it's irrelevant.
As we know, many women have to work if their families are to survive.
Rick blames this on taxes.
"On average," he said in his online chat, "the second wage earner is
working simply to pay the increased burden the federal government has
put on the family."
What Rick doesn't explain is how the Bush tax cuts he voted for
haven't solved that problem.
(Oh, right, those went mainly to the rich, while the middle class got
$300 checks.)
Even more perplexing is that Rick thinks stay-at-home moms get no
respect in our culture.
I would suggest that, these days, they get more than that -- namely,
envy.
Another of Rick's pathological phobias: gay marriage, which he
describes, as most Republicans do, as a threat to "the traditional
family."
But I've yet to hear him explain exactly what the threat is.
Does Rick think that when a gay couple moves into the neighborhood, a
mass epidemic of homosexuality breaks out?
That little Johnny and Suzy will quit the football team and
cheerleading squad and start antiquing?
That Mommy and Daddy will start renting gay pornos instead of the
straight kind?
Maybe Rick explains it in his book.
Maybe I should read it.
Nah.
Everything I need to know about Rick and his hateful, bitter ilk can
be summed up in a scene from "Father Knows Best," where knowing father
tells dutiful son, "Look, son, let me give you a tip -- cling to your
youth. Time has a way of moving forward, never backward -- stay with
it as long as you can."
Time moves forward.
Society makes progress.
If only conservatives could live with father's advice, and not try to
haul us all back to their warped conception of the good old days.
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The Warped World of Rectum Santorum.
Harry
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| User: "Fredric L. Rice" |
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| Title: Re: The Frightened World of GOP Poster Boy, Rectum Santorum |
31 Jul 2005 11:17:06 PM |
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Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
http://counterbias.com/356.html
"Growing up in the 1950's and 1960's was far different from growing up
in this decade. The culture, the neighborhoods, the values that were
being fed through the popular culture and the educational
establishments were far different from now. The world was different
and far more nurturing to families.
Yes, niggers knew their place, Mexicans were only seen when it was
time to scrub the toilets, and women sucked their men without
question. The past that Christian Republinazis was back again.
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