{"id":3798,"date":"2013-12-13T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T19:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/13\/sturm-und-drang\/"},"modified":"2013-12-25T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T07:03:09","slug":"sturm-und-drang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/sturm-und-drang\/","title":{"rendered":"Sturm und Drang"},"content":{"rendered":"

HELP WANTEDToken Republicans are desperately needed to attend public meetings. The Tea Party wants to proffer the illusion that local GOP citizens are actually aware and involved with the County’s future. We need bodies. Many positions are currently available, but sitting upright in a chair without snoring is required.Successful applicants may be subject to political antics, boring technical terms, mindless arguments, and egotistical rants. They may also be exposed to strategies to undermine non-token concerned citizens and to deliver County control to developers and outside parties.<\/p>\n

You will be encouraged to ignore the preceding issues and not ask any pertinent questions or attempt any real understanding.<\/p>\n

Applications are now being accepted by Robert Rowland and Scott Wills at the Intergalactic Tea Party Headquarters.<\/p>\n

No experience necessary. Actual zombies need not apply.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/new-plains.com\/\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Friday, December 13, 2013\u00a0\u00a0 11:47 a.m.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you don’t buy the new-plains or new prairietimes propaganda, this is what they have for you.\u00a0 You’re a mental defect one step below a zombie.\u00a0 That’s it for their reasoned argument.<\/p>\n

In church, the clergy don’t argue about the bible.\u00a0 They read from it, they present it, they apply it, and you don’t argue with them.\u00a0 It’s a one way street that, if you’re there, you accept on faith.\u00a0 You’re not there for a debate.<\/p>\n

This is how it is with the church of the new left too.\u00a0 You can attend services at a number of local locations – new-plains, prairietimes, meadowlarks mudballs, to name a few – and mixed in among frequent declarations about how open minded and inclusive their religion is, all you’ll get are readings from the liturgy of the new left.\u00a0 Debate is the last thing they’re looking for.\u00a0 They want foot soldiers who will fall on their swords, disrupt, confound, conflate, parse, dissemble, confuse, ridicule, castigate, and damn to hell fire anyone who does not accept their message.<\/p>\n

The new left is not subtle.\u00a0 Jack boots on storm troops and union thugs don’t telegraph subtlety.\u00a0 They’re about the imposition of their power, ceded to themselves through the holy mythologies of global cooling warming cooling, a river that once burned but is now drinkable, and cleaner air than America has known for a century.\u00a0 Oh wait a minute, those are the heresies.\u00a0 Crap, I always screw up their belief system – it’s just so alien, but not the kind of alien they keep looking for.\u00a0 .\u00a0 .oh never mind.<\/p>\n

Anyway, for all their Sturm und Drang<\/em>, we’re kind of stuck in their melodrama – which really frustrates them because, like the fundamentalist Muslims, they really do want all us non-believers off of their planet, one way or another. If they ever really get power, we non-believers aren’t going to get the transitional benefit of a labor camp.\u00a0 It’s going to be a shallow ditch along the side of some road for us.<\/p>\n

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