I … See … Crazy People

Posted on | August 2, 2011 | 72 Comments

One of the amazing things about the whole debt-ceiling episode is how it has caused liberals to say stuff even crazier than the crazy stuff they usually say. Michael Lind at Salon:

The debt ceiling crisis is the latest case in which the radical right in the South has held America hostage until its demands are met. Presidents Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln refused to appease the Southern fanatics. Unfortunately, President Obama and the Democrats in Congress chose not to follow their example and instead gave in. In doing so, they have encouraged the neo-Confederate minority in Congress to find yet another opportunity in the near future to extort concessions from America’s majority by sabotaging America’s government.

That’s some 180-proof crazy. But when it comes to pure high-octane crazy, nobody beats Amanda Marcotte:

Now it’s time to reflect on how our country has gone so far off track that we can’t even handle the basic responsibility of keeping the country from plunging into a manufactured crisis that nearly led to economic collapse. There are multiple causes, but one that hasn’t been discussed much is abortion.
Yes, abortion. Or, more specifically, the sustained sex panic that has been going on in this country since the sixties and seventies, when the sexual revolution occurred and women secured their reproductive rights. . . . [I]t’s sex panic that helped create the modern right-wing populist, and it’s the modern right-wing populist that created the current crisis. . . .
The genius of conservative leadership was that they were able to take all this anger about sexual freedom and desegregation and put the blame on two enemies: Democrats and the federal government.

So it’s neo-Confederates and/or “sex panic” that cause people to, uh . . . . Wait, what are we talking about? The federal debt.

The only way to exempt yourself from these bizarre accusations is to support infinite deficit spending. Otherwise, you’re like a giant inkblot in a Rorshach test, onto which Michael Lind and Amanda Marcotte will project their paranoid fears. You can’t simply debate fiscal policy with people like Lind and Marcotte, because they are endowed with the Magical Mind-Reading Power of Liberalism, which enables them to discern that you’re really a sex-panicked neo-Confederate upset about desegregation and “reproductive rights.”

It’s like having Charles Manson call you a psychotic.

UPDATE: Here’s a classic. On Sunday morning, Marcotte proclaimed to the world that “sex panic” explained the debt-ceiling dispute. But Tuesday, once she’d seen Lind’s neo-Confederate theory, she suddenly decided his theory was exactly right:

Southern whites have disproportionately tried to fuck up everything great about this country, all because of their racial resentments and backasswards views on gender . . .

Notice that “backasswards views on gender” now emerge as a uniquely regional trait of the South, as Marcotte evidently hopes to engraft her “sex panic” theory onto Lind’s Dixiefied theory. But either way, it’s the same thing: If you don’t agree with liberals, it can only be because there’s something wrong with you.

Your disagreement therefore licenses liberals to diagnose your disorder, a prerogative to which they are entitled, because they are your intellectual and moral superiors. And I remind you that this habit — diagnosing dissent as pathological — has been a signature trope of liberalism for more than half a century: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

Category: Budget, Feminism, Liberals

Comments

72 Responses to “I … See … Crazy People”

GAHCindy
August 3rd, 2011 @ 2:37 am

Sex panic? Are we sure Marcotte isn’t blogging from a padded cell? When I worked in group homes, I handed out prn tranquilizers for far saner theories than that one.
Joe
August 3rd, 2011 @ 2:41 am

Malkin’s Masterpiece Theater!

When Michelle Malkin is on a roll she is really great!
Joe
August 3rd, 2011 @ 2:44 am

The wit and wisdom of Amanda Marcotte.
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Anonymous
August 3rd, 2011 @ 2:48 am

Funny, I don’t recall hearing Michell Bachmann whistling Dixie.
Doug Hagin
August 3rd, 2011 @ 2:54 am

You just cannot fake that kind of crazy!
AngelaTC
August 3rd, 2011 @ 2:55 am

Only neo-confederates can hear it, like a dog whistle.
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2011 @ 2:55 am

But it comes down to the left believe with all their heart and soul that they are 100% right on every issue (not 80%, not 90% but 100%)

Therefore with this starting premise anyone opposed to the issues is insane or driven by some “other” reason like racist, sexism, neo-confederalism or sexual repression or something.

But look deeper why this is so dangerous and why the left is so dangerous. Throughout history when political movements declare the opposition 100% wrong, they then become evil and once they are declared evil you are ACTUALLY doing good to eliminate them.

Don’t believe me look at all the recent examples of eviro-wackos wanting global warming deniers locked up or “branded” for their heresy.
Mike
August 3rd, 2011 @ 2:58 am

Crazy is as crazy does or something like that. Hey, I’m always in a panic about sex. That happens when you get of a certain age.
Doug Hagin
August 3rd, 2011 @ 3:02 am

Sex panic? Only if I woke up from a nightmare about being in bed with Marcotte!

EGADS!
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2011 @ 3:04 am

Part of this is they are struggling to find a saleable negative meme to hang on us. Perhaps even they could see the irony of being accused of terrorism by people who refuse to call actual terrorists, terrorists.
Joe
August 3rd, 2011 @ 3:05 am

The crazy is always there. A little shaking will just drive the vermin out into view.
Joe
August 3rd, 2011 @ 3:07 am

Crazy!
Rosie Moore
August 3rd, 2011 @ 3:07 am

I looked at the source of the spiffy chart and graph for the Salon piece and it’s a list of House reps by state (from CNN) showing which reps are considered Tea Party caucus. So Salon just added up the reps from each state and, voilà, the complete demographics of the Tea Party nationwide! All I can conclude is that Salon author Michael Lind went to public schools. He did do a nice job presenting the graphics, though. Almost makes them seem legit. Sigh.
Joe
August 3rd, 2011 @ 3:09 am

Play this record backwards and you might hear it…
JeffS
August 3rd, 2011 @ 3:24 am

Amanda Marcotte ought to be slapped into a straight jacket, clapped into a padded cell, and be given the maximum daily safe dosage of Thorazine for the rest of her life.

It would be a kindness to her. And to humanity.
Patrick
August 3rd, 2011 @ 3:29 am

Willie Nelson wrote that. 🙂
Patrick
August 3rd, 2011 @ 3:29 am

That’s Mister Crazy to you buddy! Woo Hoo!

8-D
gahrie
August 3rd, 2011 @ 3:31 am

It’s like they say….conservatives believe liberals are wrong, liberals believe conservatives are evil.
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2011 @ 3:38 am

How many cats are running loose inside Marcotte’s brain, crapping on the carpet, and shredding the drapes?
Brendon Carr
August 3rd, 2011 @ 3:42 am

The nerve of the minority, trying to extract concessions from the majority!

It’s as if these liberals have no idea how the Constitution is supposed to work, and the concern the founding fathers had to prevent mob rule by a runaway majority. I guess that’s asking too much — the document is, like, a hundred years old or something.
Bob Belvedere
August 3rd, 2011 @ 3:53 am

Bravo, Joe!
CalMark
August 3rd, 2011 @ 4:02 am

Even crazier:

When the Republicans are in charge, with an annual deficit less than 10% of Obama’s, the deficit is evil and irresponsible, and raising the debt ceiling is a “failure of leadership.”

…and the media props up the lunatics who utter these crazy contradictions with a straight face.

You can’t make this stuff up.
ThePaganTemple
August 3rd, 2011 @ 4:04 am

Hey, is there any such thing as bad publicity. If Democrats don’t watch out, they might say this stuff and a lot of people might say, hell these sound like my kind of people. I think most Democrats haven’t really caught on yet that most people deep down don’t really like the damn government.
daveinboca
August 3rd, 2011 @ 4:10 am

“Only in the bizarro world of Washington is fiscal responsibility …. defined as terrorism,” Bachmann wrote.Rep Mike Doyle must have been gulping Jameson shooters to come out with “These Tea Party People are such terrorists that they won’t allow us to spend money…” Right, Mike.The very most insane part of this whole “terrorist” name-calling by certifiable clinacally insane Demonrats is that they refuse to call REAL TERRORISTS like Major Hasan the Ft. Hood grenade and pistol killer of thirteen US soldiers a terrrorist.With the rabid left-wing moonbats, lexicographers and grammarians are useless—these committed lunatics are living in brains as deranged as Marcotte’s, who’s thrown me off two of her nanny-statist blogsites for actually making sense amidst the bedlam of her NOW d-bag chug-a-luggers…!!!
Joe
August 3rd, 2011 @ 4:34 am

Crazy is what crazy says.

Do you get the feeling that the Dems were hoping to play poker with this dope and the Tea Partiers who showed up messed up their bottom dealin?
Roxeanne de Luca
August 3rd, 2011 @ 5:01 am

Oh, Amanda Marcotte: still impressed with herself because she can boff a guy. Awwww.

I say that liberals are people who think that having sex makes them intellectual and accomplished, and no one believes me. But here Miss Marcotte is, forever fascinated by her non-reproductive reproductive abilities.
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2011 @ 6:00 am

Heh — remember when dissent was the highest form of patriotism?

Just three years ago.
Adjoran
August 3rd, 2011 @ 6:56 am

Well, you have to admit that it’s some accomplishment for Marcotte to get laid with no ball gag handy.

Beer: is there nothing it can’t do?
VRWC
August 3rd, 2011 @ 9:24 am

all we need now is an Andrew Sullivan article revealing the real real diabolical truth — Christianism.

every post-1964 Republican victory = racism
every post-1973 Republican victory = misogyny
every post-2003 Republican victory = homophobia

it all makes sense
Brad Bettin
August 3rd, 2011 @ 10:56 am

Ummm …. Lind? Marcotte?

We disagree with you because you’re nucking futs.
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Tim Burns
August 3rd, 2011 @ 1:03 pm

Try to read Lind’s piece then, Adobe. you know, where he points out that over 60% of the Tea party caucus is from the Deep South. Much like the good ol’ days of the 50’s when Southern Segregationist Democrats like Russell and Thurmond could count on the occasional support from Midwestern Republicans (like my Senators), the now Southern Republican Tea Partiers can count on Bachmann and 11 whole other Midwesterners.

Still, I see hoe you could miss that point, since you decided reading the linked essay was too much work
Tim Burns
August 3rd, 2011 @ 1:04 pm

So, is it loud, Ang? Is it a single ton or a harmonized one?
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Rob Crawford
August 3rd, 2011 @ 1:12 pm

Have you looked at where the Democratic Socialist Caucus is from?
Tim Burns
August 3rd, 2011 @ 1:24 pm

Since his piece is ABOUT the number of Tea PArty Reps from the Deep South, it would seem his methodology is rock solid. If he were to claim that 60% of Tea party members are FROM the former CSA, you might have a beef.

As this long ago NYTimes poll on Tea Partiers pointed out, there are 18% of them, they are overwhelmingly Republican, male, and over 45. It’s just a re-branding of the GOP base and that base is Southern.
Tim Burns
August 3rd, 2011 @ 1:26 pm

hey, remember when it wasn’t and deficits didn’t matter? That, too, was “Just three years ago.”
Tim Burns
August 3rd, 2011 @ 1:31 pm

It wasn’t an issue here, but are you alleging they are from the South.

If so, would you liek to talk about “one man, one vote,” the VRA, and “polarized racial voting.” Had an entire class on it….Clarence Thomas and I are both disappointed by its existence.

PS Don’t worry, Rob, any political scientist worth his/her salt knows that Southwestern Ohio is as part of the Old Confederacy as Richmond. I don’t want you feeling left out
Tim Burns
August 3rd, 2011 @ 1:32 pm

Remember when it wasn’t and deficits didn’t matter?

Just three years ago.
Joe
August 3rd, 2011 @ 1:45 pm

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light,
and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for
bitter!”
Isaiah 5:20

Marcotte should pay attention…
Nospam
August 3rd, 2011 @ 1:57 pm

Someone smack the troll- he’s skipping.
Nospam
August 3rd, 2011 @ 1:58 pm

“Sex Panic”- tell me that wouldn’t make a great punk band name.
melanerpes
August 3rd, 2011 @ 2:10 pm

Old Missus marry “Will-the-weaver”, William was a gay deceiver; But when he put his arm around ‘er he smiled as fierce as a forty pounder.

Armanda, I’ll bet you think this song is about you Don’t you? Don’t You?
Dave C
August 3rd, 2011 @ 2:20 pm

Hey, remember all those protests over ‘illegal’ wars?

Three years ago as well..
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2011 @ 2:44 pm

I read the nitwits piece and linked it in my comment in the preceding post. It’s not surprising that after the failure of your peoples efforts stigmatize the conservative movement as terrorists that your pathetic efforts to find villainy in freedom has returned full circle. As usual Bolshevism assumes that the average American is too stupid to remember that y’all have already tried accusing us of raaaaacism, to little effect. But go ahead and keep trying to manufacture some new calumny. After all you haven’t tried hanging the Lindbergh kidnapping on us. Oh I know you folks haven’t accused us of giving smallpox infected blankets to the poor yet either.
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2011 @ 2:53 pm

“…all because of their racial resentments and backasswards views on gender….”

What exactly does that mean?

Does she mean that whatever she thinks southern white men believe about women is actually true about men, for example, that men should be barefoot and pregnant;

or does she mean that if southern white men think women should be barefoot and pregnant, then women should never be barefoot and pregnant?

And if so, how does that affect what I thought was the central tenet of feminism, that a woman’s choices should be maximized – here, she is trying to eliminate a woman’s choice to be barefoot and pregnant?
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2011 @ 2:55 pm

How many times in the same post do you intend to make the same erroneous assumptions.
Anonymous
August 3rd, 2011 @ 2:56 pm

And, further to the point, if she thinks that southern white men expect to subjugate racial minorities by destroying the country, why is it that southern white men disproportionately protect the country by serving in the military?

I am trying to see her logic, but I can’t understand. Perhaps I should be happy about that.
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