Why Chuck More should stop drawing broad generalizations. By epsilon, dhk.tumblr
dhk:
I love how the Katrina story was used to illustrate how horrible The Government is. Government is bad when it’s inept, and the government was inept when it was run by Republicans. End of story.
(via chuckmore)
By making sweeping generalizations, like the one above, it makes you appear the putz.
To offer my own example of your style flawed rhetoric, the Democrats wanted to keep slavery and lost to the Republicans. Granted this was the mid19th C. and maybe you are for slavery and this is a poor example.
Chuck More’s analysis and its ilk (hypocrasy analysis) is pretty boring but I do sympathize with it. It’s a tough pill to swallow when, for instance, Repubs start taking the moral high ground on deficit spending when they were going nutso about it when they were in power, and so recently. But I agree with much of the sentiment of what Jindal said and fiscal conservatism generally. My brief perusing on Tumblr shows people taking this as some kind of government/no government dichotomy, but I think it’s more accurately framed as centralized v. distributed power. The frequent liberal trap is thinking that you as a smart person can do things to help other people. Take that personal impulse as an organizing principle and what you have is the present incarnation of the Democratic party (so it seems to me). I like it when people do things for me, but I dislike more when people tell me what to do, so that’s where I stand.
