You might know I enjoy watching The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. I've mentioned before, perhaps here, that I think John Stewart operates out of the best of the prophetic tradition; funny, clever, disruptive.
You might also know, if we've enjoyed a beverage together, that because I like to watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report I like to pretend I'm informed, particularly about political goings on in the U.S.A. Further, that I like to prattle and opine about the world in which we find ourselves, and that the opining often gets around to head shaking befuddlement at the current state of affairs south of the boarder. All these things you may know.
Likewise, you may know that In the heat of discussion, I sometimes (often? most of the time?) can't coherently nor articulately talk about the current state of affairs, I just list random facts which add up to an amorphous feeling of dread.
Today I came across an article that is both coherent and articulate, penned by a former Republican staffer Mike Lofgren entitled "Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult." It isn't anything really new, if you've been even half paying attention, but it pulls everything together in a way that is, well, alarming.
If you have a slightly shorter attention span, the article came to my attention by way of the not at all provocatively titled piece "How the Apocolyptic GOP is Dragging Us Into A Civil War." written by Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone magazine. (Apparently the ability to create punchy titles is why Rolling Stone is the larger of the two publications.)
I'd recommend a quick glance at the shorter Rolling Stone piece, and if you have time Lofgren's longer piece as well.
As an extra bonus, I'm going to include a link to an article referrenced by Lofgren. It's written by Rev. Jerry Falwell and is entitled, I'm not making this up, "God is pro-war." The denouement of Falwell's crushing logic comes with an observation regarding the sixth commandment, which doesn't say thou shalt not kill. "Actually, no; it says: 'Thou shalt not commit murder.'" And there you have it folks, that amorphous feeling of dread.
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