*sigh*

[mlerules]

Ganked from an LJ-free friend on FB:

"As for the Republicans — how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical 'American heritage'…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead." - HP Lovecraft to C.L. Moore (August 1936)

Comments

[quetz.livejournal.com]

One can regard them through crosshairs, from the top of the water tower, assuming one has brought enough ammunition up with one.

[argentla.livejournal.com]

I am dubious about the authenticity of the quote, but it is nonetheless to the point.

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

I'd hoped that Bob Skir would've checked it out before reposting it on FB, but as you note, the point's well taken, regardless.