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September 26, 2005
Teenaged WND Pundit Puts the Grownups to Shame
Kyle Williams at WorldNetDaily has an excellent column called "Look Ma, I'm a Partisan Hack!" When I clicked on the link to it, I expected to see the usual liberals-hate-Bush-because-they're-evil-partisans schtick. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Williams has come down hard on partisans on both sides of the aisle. He writes:
It is an ironic time in America when Republicans can generalize about liberals' socialism, while the GOP's own president makes Bill Clinton's presidency look conservative. The Right mocks liberals over welfare, but the Republican Party is building its own fiscally abhorrent welfare state. The GOP is unwilling to act on abortion, they're all talk on homosexual marriage, and they have yet to prove anything in judicial appointments – the only real issues for which the conservative base remains loyal. . . .
On the one end, there are far too many Americans who are filled with unfathomable hatred and fear of this administration. They virtually believe President Bush will any day dispatch federal agents to terrorize their family, while Dick Cheney secretly directs Halliburton to take over the world. Their absurd loathing of this president is purchased only by their blind partisanship. These people will not accept that George W. Bush is a real human being, who has feelings, and is not mentally incompetent. They hold Bush in the same class as Hitler or Stalin and look at the Republican Party as a Westernized version of the Taliban.
Then, you find the naive fools who truly believe the Republican Party is out to help them. They buy the marketed lie that President Bush is merely an altruistic public servant. These types seem incapable of realizing that individualism has vanished because they drank the Kool-Aid a long time ago and now fail to grasp the reality that Americans are divided into easily appeased demographics, catered to with false promises in return for votes. It is true that never has America been more wrapped up in the political and social debate, but it's all just reiteration. American politics has lost its voice for the individual as it slowly trades a constitutional republic based on the rule of law in exchange for a fiscally irresponsible socialist state ruled by an aristocratic class.
It's a sad state of affairs when a 16-year-old makes more sense than most of the adults on the same website. On the other hand, it could be a sign of a better future. Let's hope the rest of the WND pundits--and their readers--read Williams's column and take it to heart. It could just bring some much-needed honesty to the political debate.
Posted by Mike Tennant at September 26, 2005 08:56 AM
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