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| The Privileged Call for Limited Dictatorships |
| 2010-05-25 |
| Elizabeth Scalia, "The Anchoress" Commenting on Woody Allen and Tom Friedman's open admiration for benevolent dictatorship: The leftist party that these people support is currently in control of both houses of congress and the White House (and they are well-represented within the federal judiciary) and yet, it is not enough. The power is not pure enough, it is not invincible enough; their power is diluted because, dammit, those little people crowing about the constitution all over the internets are mucking things up!... Friedman and Mitchell, and even that self-absorbed twerp Woody Allen are all wringing their hands over something they cannot (yet) control; alternative media and how it has contributed to the difficulties of getting things done in Washington. When the press had a monopoly on information, it was much easier for them to influence opinion; that in turn made the legislator's jobs easier, too. Now, yes, things are more difficult for the politicians, but that's mostly because they insist upon working as they always have (the incestuous commingling of pols and media freaks on the left, and pols and business freaks on the right, with back-room-deals-aplenty, back-scratching galore and pork, pork, pork for everyone) while the electorate has decided it wants something different. So, Allen and Friedman--and others who have kept their faces before us for 40 years by coasting on the work of their youth, because they've done nothing memorable, lately--are feeling the shifting sand beneath their feet, and they're wondering why America can't simply submit to a fantasy of Limited Dictatorship. It's so inconvenient for these elites to have to deal with the noise of the bourgeoisie -- commoners who presume to opine on anything and who dare to object to the incessant lecturing from their betters. So, let's be China "for a little while..." (just long enough to get everything we want accomplished). Because what they want must, of course, darling, be the very thing that needs doing. Let's allow Obama to be dictator "for a couple of years," because that preening narcissist will certainly give up his dictatorship once the nowhere-utopia of which the left dreams is achieved. Right? Of course.... Every murderous totalitarian government of the 20th century began with some insulated group of faux-intellectuals congratulating each other on how smart they are, and fantasizing about how, if they could just install a dictatorship-for-a-day, they could right all the wrongs in the world. It is the ultimate fantasy of the narcissist. And we've got whole generations of them, in control of our media and our government, all intent on "remaking America." Speaking of the wonderfulness that is China... |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #10 Of course they're all for it. They think that they will be part of the nomenklatura, and can dish out revenge to people they never liked in the first place. (They never think that they ever might be up against the wall after they have outlived their usefulness.) |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2010-05-25 19:17 |
| #9 "I really think some NYT columnists /Barry Obamao's little red book |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-05-25 18:23 |
| #8 We're starting to see the real divide isn't the MSM contrived red vs blue. It's the American Constitutionalists vs the International Socialists. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-05-25 17:35 |
| #7 Oh I dunno, this "dictator for a week" business might not be all bad. For example: I'd prefer any of the regulars here be dictator for a week rather than continue on with the administration we have now. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2010-05-25 15:04 |
| #6 I think it would be fun to get a bunch of no name actors together, dress them up as stereotypical Hollywood secret police, and send them out to Tom and Woody's houses about dawn some morning with a film crew to kick down the doors, yank them out of bed, throw them in cuffs, and tell them that their dictatorship dreams have come true. Just to see the looks on their faces. If Ashton Kutcher wasn't such a lefty douchebag, he might be interested. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-05-25 14:02 |
| #5 I think North Korea would fit Woody better. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-05-25 12:57 |
| #4 You utopia fucktwats can seize dictatorship power from my cold, dead hands. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-05-25 12:04 |
| #3 The problem with Obama is not that he is a poor executive, but that he doesn't have enough power... Riiiiiiiight... |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2010-05-25 10:56 |
| #2 China is too reasonable. How about Saudi Arabia? Woody Allen would just love it there, as much as they would love him. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-05-25 10:00 |
| #1 So, let’s be China “for a little while…” Better yet, let Allen and Friedman–and others who really believe their own nonsense be sent to China. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-05-25 09:41 |