Welcome to Nowhere
I’ve wanted to blog about some of the fundie reaction to the election results, but I’ve been busier than normal this past week.
One reaction I’ve been waiting for but haven’t yet seen is from nutbag Donald Wildmon. His American Fundie Association has issued a few press releases crowing about the success of Prop. 8, but I haven’t seen any official statements decrying the rest of the election. Maybe old Donald is still catatonic.
It’s too bad. I was looking forward to hearing from the old buzzard. Here’s what he wrote in an email two weeks before the election:
If the liberals win the upcoming election, America as we have known it will no longer exist.
Wow. I guess we’re now living in a non-existent plane of spatial paradox.
This is what makes battling the fundies so difficult. It isn’t simply a matter of contradictory viewpoints clashing at the ballot box or in the culture as a whole. The fundies frame everything as a matter of life or permanent extinction. Here’s what else the old goat said:
The damage will be deep and long lasting. It cannot be turned around in the next election, or the one after that, or by any election in the future. The damage will be permanent.
Never back a wild animal into a corner. Fundie leaders whip their followers into a constant state of near-panic. That’s why they’re such fierce opponents.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:05 am
So what were the last 8 years like for Don then?!?!?!? I don’t think even Bush would call his presidency a “success.”
November 12th, 2008 at 11:08 am
So let it be written; so let it be done. /Yul Brynner accent
November 12th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Even I, probably the bleedingest heart here at BoF, don’t think that the destruction of the Bush years is permanent. However, this nut job is predicting that not only will the ebil libruls mess things up, but that we’ll mess things up so bad that there is no way to reverse it.
I guess when you are fighting to preserve superstition and silly traditions and you see every new generation rejecting your silliness in growing numbers, it can seem that way to them. Maybe I shouldn’t have been as surprised as I was in the first paragraph. Humanity did, indeed, reject his kind. I hope it is permanent.
November 12th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I just realized that something is wrong with that cartoon, and I wanted to be the first to mention it.
Vulcans have green blood.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:14 am
For everyone out there (and I mean “out there”) who thinks the forthcoming Obama Administration will spell certain doom for mankind, who are overwhelmed with a sense of fear, foreboding and anxiety, who just can’t find anything to be happy about, I say “good”. We’ve tolerated the worst president in modern history, if not all of American history, and as PL said, we’re still here. Conservatives have had their chance – again- to run everything and, unsurprisingly, they’ve fucked it up eight ways to Tuesday. We’ve endured the most disappointing, contemptuous, secretive, and incomprehensible presidency of all time, and now its our turn to be proud.
So if people like Wildmon tremble in fear every time they turn on the news, all I can do is laugh. When you spend your life advancing whatever bullshit cause you care about through fear and hatred, you deserve to live in the world you’ve created. I have several relatives and in-laws who think the sky will fall on 20 Jan., and I’m not about to dissuade them from their irrational paranoia. Let them sweat. We’ve lived through eight long years of frustration. Now let’s see how they like it.
November 13th, 2008 at 6:23 am
I wonder how much history will be rewritten by the media 10 years from now with regard to Dubya. Saint Ronald Reagan’s legacy was certainly rewritten. Of course, Ronnie actually had a few good things happen on his watch while the country was bankrupted and W, well, not so much. It is starting already. The reality distortion field has been cranked up to 11 at Powerline. Let’s hope this narrative does NOT make its way into the so-called “librul media.”
November 13th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Wow. Just. Plain. Wow.
I thought fundies were the worst distorters of reality. That Powerline article is unreal. Bush is an excellent speaker? “He chooses his words with care and precision”?
Left unsaid in that article is how astoundingly bad Reagan was in this department as well. His administration was in perpetual damage control mode, because Reagan was always shooting his mouth off. I remember a political cartoon that showed two doors inside the White House. One was labeled “Department of What We Said”. The other was labeled “Department of What We Really Meant”.
If you want some real howlers, read the comments on that article. No wonder Republicans vote the way they do. They have such a massively distorted view of reality. It’s not a matter of them simply not living in the same world we do. They’re not even in the same universe.
November 13th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
You’re forgetting that once they were finished with Saint Reagan, they started a huge whitewashing operation on Nixon, of all people. And major actors of the Watergate scandal, who are convicted felons, are currently public figures with blogs, radio shows, book deals, public appearances and the like (North, Liddy, etc…)
Bizarre.
November 14th, 2008 at 6:01 am
Indeed. And look at Carter’s legacy? It’s been tarnished greatly. Sure, the end of his presidency was not pretty, but there is no saying that he wouldn’t have cleaned up the mess that was only partly his fault. It was certainly a hell of a lot less of a mess than Dubya, for example. And Carter did some great things. One thing that really pisses my wife off is how Reagan ripped off the Solar Panels from the white house that Carter helped install, as part of his call on Congress to start a “Moonshot” style program for energy independence. With Reagan, that was gone — all gone. Now, forty years later, we’re in the same position. The only difference is that it’s pretty much a matter of national survival to have energy independence. And if you factor in global warming from fossil fuels, it’s a matter of survival of life as we know it on Earth.
November 15th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Well, here’s where I have to agree with you. As a fundy, I am in a state of near-panic (perhaps even full panic) at the prospect of an Obama administration. I find that the only thing that alleviates this highly agitated state is to make a donation to Rev. Wildmon’s ministry. Or pray. One of the two.