October 13, 2013

Beyond Dowd's Vision of Thunderdome

By William Sullivan
In her recent piece in the New York Times, "Welcome to Ted Cruz's Thunderdome," Maureen Dowd peers through her leftist lens into a dystopian 2084 (hardly a subtle or original choice), where conservatives have poisoned American ideology and introduced a mutant political virus that destroyed our world.  In her tale, a man sits with his boy in this desolate future, and the boy wonders how this all could have happened.  In 2013, the father explains, "[i]t started very small with a petty fight over a six-week spending bill but quickly mushroomed out of control."  The GOP had been infected with an ideological virus called the "Sarahcuda Strain after the earliest carrier," and this resultant de-evolution caused lower brain function and the abandonment of high-minded progressivism.  America later became a shell of its former self, with apes sitting at the Lincoln Memorial reminding us all how far we had fallen. The message and narrative are simple...(Read Full Article)