Comments on: Fascism? You’re soaking in it…

By: LocalCrank

LocalCrank — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:55:57 +0000

“I think the Federal government’s policy toward Native Americans in the early 20th century may qualify as the ultimate Progressive experiment.”

Oh dear God, haven’t we suffered enough? First the Trail of Tears, now Goldberg is concern trolling us? Having said that, Senator Henry Dawes actually considered himself a humanitarian who was trying to “civilize” us by teaching us greed and selfishness. No, seriously; he actually said, after touring the Cherokee Nation, that it was a utopia and the people there knew nothing about greed, so therefore we weren’t white enough. we also got the “benefit” of “faith based programs” as different churches were given government contracts to kidnap Indian children and indoctrinate them in boarding schools. But Dr. Dick is absolutely right in that most federal Indian policy in the late 19th and 20th Centuries (and 21st Century, right up until today) is designed to destroy tribal sovereignty to benefit corporate interests.

By: SqueakyRat

SqueakyRat — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:06:41 +0000

I prefer the incomprehensible Pantload-style analogy pastime, as in “Barack Obama is the Rudolf Hess of liberal fascism,” “Mike Huckabee is the Chang Kai Shek of liberal fascism,” “Jonah Goldberg is the Max Schmeling of liberal fascism,” “FireDogLake is the Amos ‘n Andy of lib. fasc.” etc. Any number can play.

By: DrDick

DrDick — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:14:33 +0000

As someone who actually is something of an expert on the topic I would like to point out first, that the General Allotment act was passed in 1887 (a tad before the 20th century), and allotment was ended by the Indian Reorganization Act in 1934. Secondly, allotment emerged out of an unholy alliance between various well meaning, but clueless and hopelessly ethnocentric progressives and various powerful and very regressive corporate interests, including the railroads; timber, mining, and ranching interests; and land speculators.

By: MeanMrMustard

MeanMrMustard — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:13:41 +0000

I read it as “If I continue to seek the presidency, the terrorists have won.”

By: humboldtblue

humboldtblue — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:32:29 +0000

Maybe Jonah just has an advanced case of the clap which has led him into this alternate world where donuts are health food and granola is really the diet of devils.

By: bobwan

bobwan — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:04:06 +0000

Jonarrrrgh is one of those folks who think any lamebrained idea that they think up has merit. He’s somewhat like the guy who during a rhythmic clapping singalong hears someone start to clap on the upbeat in counterpoint. So he employs his amazing powers of whiteboy rhythm and starts clapping at random unintelligible points and calls it “creative” and “free expression”. The rest of us can hear that it’s crap. But there are always a few OTHER whiteboys who use him as an excuse for their own creativity and soon all is cacophony.

By: captphealy

captphealy — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:04:32 +0000

Actually, I suspect this letter may actually be one of the subtler efforts to yank Jonah’s chain, as it were. Some of the “letters” are so blatant as to call Jonah’s cognitive abilities into question. As if the book itself didn’t do that…

By: TomHilton

TomHilton — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:02:49 +0000

Uh-oh! Jonah has figured out my coded messages.

By: makeitstop

makeitstop — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:55:58 +0000

Jonah’s no better than that annoying dorm-mate you had at college who had just discovered pot and was seeing amaaaaaazing things everywhere because he had just found the one true perspective man, everyone else is like, so wrong!

Wrong, yes, but he needs a mirror to be shown where that designation truly lies.

By: moondancer

moondancer — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:43:35 +0000

Doughys juvenile compulsive drive for attention from the “ivory tower” crowd is the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen. The more they mock him, the more he begs for abuse.
What he refuses to admit is the drivel wouldn’t have got a look without mommy.