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Eeh.
Norquist will ally himself with ANYONE who will fall in with his agenda, which is literally to cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut the size of the federal government until it is so weak it can then be drowned in the bathtub.
Literally.
If Norquists's vision came to fruition, the United States would look like the landscape in the Road, a gray hazy stink hanging in the air, burned out husks of buildings and houses and vehicles, burned trees and single or small groups foraging and shooting each other for survival.
He has admitted that he was born in the wrong time, that he'd be absolutely ecstatic to find himself on some true frontier semi-lawless twon in the West/Southwest after the Civil War, where men settled things with gunfights and whatnot. Nevermind the fact that he'd be dead inside of a week because someone would shoot him for being so annoying and such a fat ass.
This sort of brings up a larger point about the Republicans/Conservatives, which is that they see even talking to or having open lines of communication let alone negotiating with your enemies/the opposition/the other side means that you are weak. Instead you have to smash and attack and stand firm and demand your opponent gives in to your EVERY demand and then fucks themselves.