Chris Mathews is sometimes tone deaf, and a bit full of himself, so I certainly don’t hang on his words, but this deserves repeating no matter who says it.
Chris Mathews is sometimes tone deaf, and a bit full of himself, so I certainly don’t hang on his words, but this deserves repeating no matter who says it.
Is Mitt Romney human though?
I might be wrong about this but I think the big change started when Reagan was 1st elected.
Nixons southern strategy, to appeal to southern racists, had its first big victory with reagan
One of the key men who helped shape Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy was Kevin Phillips. Who later came to regret what he’d done. The latter-day Phillips is someone I’ve come to greatly admire. He is the author of several important books, most notably in terms of the Southern Strategy is his book, “American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush” http://tinyurl.com/9cobqwn It was of course George Bush who was the apotheosis of the insanity and cynicism of the Southern Strategy with his wicked and dastardly promotion of the anti-intellectualism that Tweety (aka Chris Matthews) is now objecting to. Sadly Tweety was less inclined to do so in the years that Bush was in office.
Another fine Kevin Phillip’s book I learned a lot from was “American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century” http://tinyurl.com/8mkvuvr
Both books are highly recommended. While I can’t say I recommend Tweety-Bird at all, because of his history of promiscuous vacillation and a propensity to have a nose that is tinted by its environmental nearness to too many politicians’ posteriors.
mathews will never live down his fawning adoration of Dubya in the flight suit.
In that instance, it was hard to separate the ass from the asshole.
That was also coming on the heels of 9/11 when Bush had his highest ratings, before his administration really screwed us over.
In general, I think human knowledge is a great thing. Sometimes I wished that greedy investors didn’t know about things like the gold and copper deposits in Bristol Bay Alaska. If the Pebble Mine gets built, it will likely devastate the local environment beyond repair for the foreseeable future. But then again, when human knowledge is applied for the greater good, it can stop things like that from happening helping preserve the environment.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/alaska-gold/
Maybe the destruction of life on the planet by knowledgeable human is inevitable (How Biblical with that bite of the apple).Too bad we discovered agriculture..too bad we discovered the Industrial Revolution..Too bad we discovered Nukes and Burning fossil fuels..I think of this a lot..
In and of themselves, those weren’t necessarily bad things. It saved lives and advanced the overall human condition.
If we’d not started using oil, we would have wiped out the cetacean population.
But our thinking is too short-term even as we’re living longer than ever.
And we’ve forgotten the lessons learned by previous generations, about thrift, and true conservation.