{"id":4625,"date":"2012-02-29T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4625"},"modified":"2012-02-28T20:15:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T02:15:29","slug":"the-party-of-fear-and-irrelevance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/the-party-of-fear-and-irrelevance\/","title":{"rendered":"The party of fear and irrelevance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have a cookie \u2014 support a Girl Scout \u2018terrorist\u2019? – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Thus does social conservatism skid through the last barriers of basic intellect, simple decency and common sense, hurtling breakneck off the deep end. Next stop: utter incoherence. \u2026<\/p>\n

But then, social conservatism is where logic fears to tread. It is a worldview driven by fear of the world beyond its racial, gender, religious, cultural and intellectual borders. Historically, it always has been. \u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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And you have to wonder: How narrow must a man\u2019s worldview be, how paranoid his outlook, what a bunker his very life, when he is scared of Girl Scouts?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Some of us have argued that social conservatives use fear as a tactic. And there\u2019s likely some truth to that. But one senses little of tactical planning in Morris\u2019 missive. No, the fact is, he believes what he says. Many of them do. <\/p>\n

If you want to be scared of something, be scared of that. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Have a cookie \u2014 support a Girl Scout \u2018terrorist\u2019? – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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