The safe and orderly demolition of the Right is our generation's Moon shot.
THE MOON
driftglass
Some choose to go to the Moon. Some choose to believe that the purpose of government in a representative democracy is to take up the greatest educational, environmental and economic burdens and challenges that we face as a nation, and that rational people contending in the public arena is the best way to thrash out our differing priorities.
And some choose to believe the Earth is 9,000 years old. That any collective action taken on behalf "We The People..." is evil. That any government beyond sending them Social Security checks and cutting their taxes is evil. That rationality is elitist. That facts are irrelevant. That any opposition to their disastrous superstitions and paranoia is evil. That compromise is evil.
For the former, there is now no greater cultural imperative than insuring the electoral extinction of the latter.
The safe and orderly demolition of the Right is our generation's Moon shot.
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2012/01/moon.html