tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30020334.post5753706765517389394..comments2023-10-24T11:19:37.236-04:00Comments on Cognitive dissonance in Pittsburgh and beyond: What kind of country?EdHeathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109361235271107574noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30020334.post-91163812387380419252010-12-13T12:37:30.763-05:002010-12-13T12:37:30.763-05:00Honestly, I do not think most collectors think bey...Honestly, I do not think most collectors think beyond platitudes and the belief that if they choose the right people want everything magically take care of itself.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.wallpapers4bollywood.com/" rel="nofollow">bollywood actress wallpaper</a>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12647133073230249431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30020334.post-47724195475833120732010-09-26T11:44:42.073-04:002010-09-26T11:44:42.073-04:00Spork, except for your final parenthetical stateme...Spork, except for your final parenthetical statement (which I am assuming/hoping was tongue in cheek), I agree totally with your comment. I think you are right on about Joe average Tea Partier, seeing 'Merica as a Christian nation which has strayed (I should have expressed that, 'cept I am too damn wordy and was watching while I was writing the post). I think the bit about platitudes is quite right as well. <br /><br />I agree that Dick Armey and the Koch brothers would be nervous about having theocrats "anywhere near the levers of power", except that currently having a Jim DeMint and a Tom Coburn in the Senate can be quite useful (See Gail Collins column in the Saturday NYTimes). I think only a few of the lunatics will be elected, and they will be a welcome edition to the GOP "big tent".EdHeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09109361235271107574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30020334.post-47800568302430244572010-09-25T07:15:44.042-04:002010-09-25T07:15:44.042-04:00Which is to say I have to wonder if the tea Party ...<i>Which is to say I have to wonder if the tea Party wants to create a theocracy</i><br /><br />Most of them don't think of it this way. I think it's more like, America is already a Christian Nation which has strayed.<br /><br />Of course the government should be run in a Christian fashion but because we're tolerant there would be no discrimination (the essential contradiction here seems to escape them).<br /><br />I honestly don't believe that most of the 'baggers think beyond platitudes and possess a belief that if they elect the "right" people everything will magically take care of itself.<br /><br />That said, there are no doubt actual, conscious theocrats amongst them, especially the Christian Reconstructionists. But Dick Armey and the Koch Brothers certainly don't want them anywhere near the levers of power.<br /><br />(I'm for the moment leaving out the insidious idea that Islam isn't a faith but a political movement.)<br /><br /><br />.spork_incidenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03915784234390595401noreply@blogger.com