Given the stakes, its no surprise that Democrats and liberal columnists reacted to the government shutdown by portraying Republicans as anti-human. New York Times columnist Charles Blow warned that the GOPs tactics were how the money-rich are able to prey on the knowledge-poor, opening up the possibility that a government by the people may swiftly give way to a government dominated by dark money and dark motives. Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. singled out the cranks and outliers within the party so addled by hatred of the president, so crippled by the mental disorder known as Obama Dementia, that they are incapable of rationality and reason. I prefer to assume that people with whom I disagree about politics come to their opinions genuinely, rather than through sinister, anti-democratic motives and/or advanced mental illness. And while I believe that shutting down the federal government was mostly the result of a series of tactical and political blunders by the GOP majority in the House of Representatives, its worth pausing to examine the broader argument about the role of government occasioned by the dispute. -Matt Welch, from reason
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:27:02 +0000
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