11/09/2004 07:46:55 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

The "case" (scare quotes very intentional) has been made that somehow the Red States are wrong in this election because there is a significant overlap with those that voted for Bush today that were slave states before that rather decisive scuffle back in the 1860s. I believe the Civil War changed things significantly - perhaps those who make this pointless comparison need to actually take an American history class.

I hesitate to brand the above simple simile with any logic whatsoever. It pains me (with laughter) to think these comparisons come from my supposed cultural superiors. In the link above, Carole Simpson of ABC News, ends up equating slavery with the potential end of the entitlement state, or is it being equated with the gay marriage issue...it really is hard to tell. Linear thought is sometimes elusive with these people. Emotion, on the other hand, is running rampant outside the typically useful bounds of sanity.

The logical equivalent would be to say that Kerry supporters come from the land of burning witches, and therefore now want to, well, I don't know what the next item in the sequence would be. Perhaps my IQ really is deficient compared to the intellectual aristocracy of the coast. Or perhaps I'm just smart enough to know better than to make silly things up to explain rather simple causal events.

UPDATE This would fall under "running rampant outside the typically useful bounds of sanity."

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