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According to Jerry Falwell, 9/11 was America’s punishment from above for the ACLU, paganism, abortion, homosexuals and feminism.
I’ll let his wisdom speak for itself.
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It’s not often a political cartoon makes me laugh out loud.
To me, the cartoon spotlights paper-thin single-issue coverage in cloned plastic media, more than anything about Falwell.
In my life Falwell was an irrelevancy, but to folks in red-state America, he validated beliefs, urged community, explained issues, and empowered the semi-educated, the backward, and the simple. It’s the old camp-meeting tradition, started in 1805 or so, and still alive, outside our urban enclaves. Kind of a “pure American” thing. Ridiculous to outsiders, essential to American life.
So democratically, he was champion of the disenfranchised. Ironic, a man knowing so much less than we think we know, puts a stamp on media & American life. He proved democracy has no educational or belief tests. The vote is fair game. Get 51%, and flat-earthers rule.
Your flat-earth may be a Euro-Cosmo flat earth, but there’s a good bet it’s as flat as Falwell’s preachy-world. And…. you can think of it this way,... the man gave you a cartoon.
I felt so relieved for the old guy, they didn’t find a crack pipe in his hand.
The political empowerment of a large “semi-educated” (your words) reactionary group of people to respond negatively to the enactment of constitutional protections for individuals is irrelevant? If it wasn’t for Falwell, the recent election of a very simple man to the Presidency of the United States would not have been possible. Ironically, Falwell used democracy and his power to attempt to erode the foundation of that same democracy and did it all under the guise of religion. And he became a multi-millionaire in the process.
How could a cartoonist ignore Falwell??
Moral majority is and always will be neither.
Moral Majority is an oxymoron.
Sorry, Steve, I wanted to reply directly to Matt.
The essence of this democracy does not lie in the various improvements, or extensions you seem to favor, pertaining to constitutional coverage. (I’m not saying I don’t favor them).
The essence of the thing lies in 51% being able to remake the whole thing, in any way shape or form they desire (within limits), for any reason that ignites their passions, in each national election, forever.
There is no constitutional mandate that only the most comprehensive, or high-minded, or forward-looking, or compassionate agenda be the agenda of choice.
Likewise, when faced with a diverse populace, with super-diverse biases carried in from the 5 continents, we cannot judge even those we consider backward, semi-educated, alien, inadequate, benighted, or simply wrong.
To translate for you, the red states, and red staters, and their leaders (progressive, reactionary, or what have you) are as entirely enfranchised, potent, significant, and deserving of power, as any other group, or coalition of groups.
There is to be no aristocracy of attitude in this democracy.
Sorry, guy, I know that must be hard for you to handle.
America in a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Learn the crucial difference.
Artisan33,
Yesindeedy and the scum you disguise, had they any semblance of decency, would feel guilty for their obvious crimes. But since they don’t, and you probably don’t either, to all of you i say f*ck you.
Hmm, unecessary that last one – Artisan33 was neither supporting nor defending the position of Falwell, (if that was your objection as I assume) the ‘moral majority’ or any of the other groups associated with him and his causes.
He was supporting and defending their right to HAVE a position, and to voice that through democratic means.
And quite right too.
The moral objection to the picture painted of Falwell and his ‘semi-educated’ (LOL, some of us Brits would suggest that term applies in general to victims of the US schools system, but I couldn’t possibly comment…) supporters should be, to my mind, that a man can abuse the democratic process by putting a load of rubbish into the minds of those people who will then skew the democratic process by lending weight to his fatuous demagoguery.
But that is based on my personal evaluation of his beliefs, and I am sure there are those of diametrically opposing views who would retort that the same can be said of the other side.
They will just have to ignore centuries of tradition in rigorous scientific and educational process, and I will ignore millenia of tradition in blind faith. Oops. I was trying so hard to be even handed there…
From a self confessed semi-educated person!