HP Lovecraft in 1936: 'The Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead'

[BurtWorm]

Cthulu was a Democrat!

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-horror.html

“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.”

[SpiralHawk]

1. + 1,000

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lzRf9b1vduk/SqStXX-4V2I/AAAAAAAAACc/0CphKSkYiQY/s320/nailed+it.jpg

[AspenRose]

2. *sigh* Stephen

:loveya:

[LostInAnomie]

3. Damn. That's so on-the-nose and poignant of today's repukes...

... I almost have a hard time believing it's real.

[flakey_foont]

4. as are most of the faculty

at Miskatonic University in Arkham, MA

Democrats, that is!

[Kind of Blue]

5. Great find!

Amazing how somethings never change.
KnR!

[Gold Metal Flake]

6. Dayum!

Still entirely accurate!

"unrestricted economic license" = "free trade" = "trickle down" = "flat earth" = "globalism"

[Ian David]

7. Pray that Boehner eats you first! n/t

[NoodleyAppendage]

8. My new signature line quote. AWESOME!

True to his trademark verbosity, Lovecraft nails it.

J

[Chulanowa]

9. I woulda never guessed

I mean the guy's personal views regarding race and culture had me pegging him as a generic right-leaner. Would also explain why he could never actually describe anything in his writings :)

Neat surprise.

[Ozymanithrax]

10. Lovecraft was also an atheist and a racist....

but it was the time.

[Hydra]

11. Being an atheist is bad? n/t

[TroglodyteScholar]

13. Only as bad as being racist.

:crazy:

[BurtWorm]

12. kick

[Dappleganger]

14. Nice find!

But yes, unfortunately the dude was quite racist.

[dimbear]

25. Dude had some issue with Italians. For starters.

And it got rapidly worse from there. Not a person who I would choose as a life counselor. Especially on issues like when to seek medical help for that abdominal pain hurty thingy. Also not a prime candidate for a marriage counselor.

[Naturyl]

15. Wow, he mentioned all the key words to let me know he really "got it"

Lovecraft was definitely on the clue train in a big way. Good to know this.

This is actually one of the best brief attacks on right-wing ideas I've ever seen.

[Azathoth]

16. The Old Ones approve this message n/t

[Raksha]

17. Wow...Lovecraft had the Repukes nailed over 60 years ago!

So why are they still around? I guess they aren't actually the dead but the un-dead, zombies being kept artificially animated by black magic spells.

[Quixote1818]

18. My favorite Cthulu painting

[BurtWorm]

20. Have you seen the Lovecraft Society's silent movie of the Call of Cthulhu?

I was very impressed.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ImHsGa18NYM/RwmF_FmPZUI/AAAAAAAAAQw/YV_z82TMqvg/s400/call1+copy.jpg

[Quixote1818]

22. Looks really cool! Thanks for filling me in. nt

[proteus_lives]

24. Lovely.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

[RainDog]

19. kick n/t

[The Straight Story]

21. Kick for HP - Downloaded all his works recently, fav author and ONLY one that ever scared me

Whisperer in the darkness when I was a teen....still gives me the willies.

[proteus_lives]

23. Love me some HPL.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

[laughingliberal]

26. +1000 nt

[calimary]

27. GREAT quote!

A keeper!